ifgs and cross cultural pro content development

... tacit, and systemic and involves dissimilar cultural contexts (p 204) Table 1: Cross- cultural Implications – Asian (China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan) and the West Cross- culture ... learned about cross- cultural issues was trial and error, and error, and error The writer hopes that sharing some of my experiences will help you avoid some of the same problems and make you more ... Globalization and Cross- Cultural Issues in Project Management, page Another scholar, Triandis, presents a psychological perspective to the description...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... article as: Foster Page et al.: Performance and cross- cultural comparison of the short-form version of the CPQ11-14 in New Zealand, Brunei and Brazil Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:40 ... communities and cultures with diverse caries experience, and to compare the subjective oral health of these different communities Method Data from studies of children in New Zealand (Northland and Otago), ... ranged from 187 (Northland, New Zealand) to 457 (Brunei), with broadly similar age ranges (with the Brunei and Brazil data including 10- and 11-year-olds) Males comprised approximately half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... from the Project Copernicus experience that improvisation fostered cross- cultural management Thus it may be proposed that fluid structures which promote improvisation be used in crosscultural ... adopted and in the cross- cultural management processes that unfolded The work of Pinnington, Morris and Pinnington (2003) demonstrates that fluid and minimal structures are required for improvisation ... that enabled its Project Copernicus in Singapore, to achieve an effective crosscultural management This paper explores the linkage between organizational structure and cross- cultural management...

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2016, 09:11

... completely bilingual and bicultural) • Improvise an approach (joint strategy) – Crafts an approach that is specifically tailored to the negotiation situation, other party, and circumstances • ... values that promote career success or quality of life • Cultures promoting career success are characterized by the acquisition of money and things, and not caring for others • Cultures promoting ... deciding which strategy to apply when, and choosing which models and perspectives to apply to increase cross- cultural understanding 11-3 What Makes International Negotiations Different? Two...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2016, 14:31

... in providing GIS services and consulting to the utility industry Mr Kannan provides a wealth of talent and expertise to Sentinel USA and has contributed to the success of several high-profile development ... as the content property is determined on a per-class basis For the StackPanel, the default content property is the Children property, as in Listing 1–14 Listing 1–14 XAML Default Content Properties ... His professional skills and contributions are in the fields of GIS Software and Custom Application Development, Advanced Spatial Database and Data Structure, Computational Cartography, GPS, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2012, 08:54

... those countries and enhance their awareness of other culture 13 - Textbooks promoting cultural awareness and competence that explicitly raise cultural awareness and cultivate cross- cultural competence ... authentic environment, activities that help provide cultural information (cultural aside, cultural capsule, quiz) and activities that develop students cross- cultural awareness (culture assimilator, ... the language is studied) and the comparative approach (which is based on comparing learners own and the other culture) 2.2.1 The mono -cultural approach The mono -cultural approach seems to be inadequate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... professionals to work effectively in cross- cultural situations” On the other hand, cultural competence is the ability to understand behavior from the standpoint of the members of a culture and ... awareness of one’s own cultural worldview; attitude towards cultural differences; knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews and crosscultural skills” Developing cultural competence ... thinking, belief systems, and world views of people from various cultural backgrounds and thus enhances empathy and mutual understanding Investigating issues concerning cross cultural communication...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... thanks to my family and classmates, who always stand by me, provide their emotional support through out the process I this paper ii ABSTRACT Many people who communicate cross- cultural boundaries ... 1.2 Cultural communication 1.2.1 Notion of culture 1.2.1.1 Cross- cultural communication 1.3 Positive – negative politeness Chapter II: A cross- cultural ... study - This research focuses on the cross - cultural study to find out the similarities and differences between the English and Vietnamese in the ways they give and respond to compliments Determined...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... the learners and readers to improve their knowledge of English and Vietnamese idioms, especially comparative idioms and help them understand the cultural characteristic of English and Vietnamese ... metaphor and simile are used in English and Vietnamese idioms and to make some comparisons between English idioms and Vietnamese ones In order to obtain these aims, data and sources are collected and ... Free-Word Groups 1.3.1 Word and Its Meaning 1.3.2 The Meaning of Idioms 1.3.3 Idioms and Free- Word Groups 1.4 Criteria to Distinguish Idioms and Proverbs CHAPTER II ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS USING...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... beauty standards and fashionable criteria can change over time and culture, “beauty” has undoubtedly a positive bias compared to “ugliness” everywhere and at any time “To say that beauty and ugliness ... students and judge them as smarter Attractive adults get paid more for their work and have better success in dating and mating And juries are less likely to find attractive people guilty and recommend ... everything' industry with its glamour and style stereotypes invades and pervades cyberspace, roadside hoardings, 'looks product' commerce, and the 'world system' of 'human and non-human constructed beauty'...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... with a more focused emphasis on developers and operations working together and using automation and tools to drive a cultural shift to produce and improve software at an intensified rate 'The ideas ... keen of an understanding as a developer of how to manage and automate source PRO WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS control systems, continuous integration systems, and debugging and testing methods ... the software, he should to manage it in production—the hand-off to an ops team is costly and prone to error Eliminating the hand-off eliminates problems, and it makes developers responsible for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 03:20

... Vietnamese and American Specially, the assignment will compare and contrast the two conception in order to find the misunderstanding and cultural conflicts Thus, people from the two cultural can ... differences and to use them productively and creatively, not simply ignoring or overcoming the gap Careful observation, ongoing study of cultures, and open-mindedness will all help develop cross- cultural ... attitudes and values Cultural refers to the informal and often hidden patterns of human interactions, expressions and viewpoints that people in one culture share The hidden nature of cultural...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 17:31

... to carry out a cross- cultural adaptation of the ChildOIDP index and to assess its reliability and validity for application among Brazilian children between the ages of eleven and fourteen Methods ... design and ethical considerations The methodology emphasises the cross- cultural adaptation of the Child-OIDP and its psychometric testing for test-retest reliability, internal consistency and construct ... [12] The process of cross- cultural adaptation was conducted in Rio de Janeiro and involved several steps: translation from English to Portuguese; first meeting of the expert panel to produce the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee Baseline and annual X-rays were provided and assessed by a centralised procedure (Pr C Roux, Cochin Hospital, France) The prevalent and incident vertebral ... analyses varied from this procedure, as outlined below The psychometric properties of both the QUALIOST® and SF-36 were assessed on baseline cross- sectional (N = 1486) and longitudinal data (N ... fractures occurring between baseline and endpoint cross- sectional data and 1288 in the analysis of longitudinal data on the psychometric properties of the QUALIOST® and SF-36 At baseline, patients...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... usefulness of IFGs for cross- cultural use has not been systematically evaluated Proof of concept study: IFGs and cross- cultural PRO content development This POC study was part of a larger project to ... http://www.hqlo.com /content/ 4/1/64 Table 2: Cross- cultural content development solutions used during PRO development Options for Cross- Cultural Harmonization of PRO Content Benefits Option 1: Address cultural issues using ... constraints of limited project resources Moreover, they may provide a way to use a set of standardized procedures and tools for cross- cultural harmonization of content during early PRO development As...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... five Likert response options which are (never a problem), (almost never a problem), (sometimes a problem), (often a problem) and (almost always a problem) Items are then linearly transformed to ... chronic health conditions on parent HRQOL and family functioning across countries In the process of cross- cultural adaptation, the recruitment of translators and specialists in the multidisciplinary ... conceptualized and designed the study, acquired, analyzed and interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript YZ and ZH conceptualized and designed the study, acquired the data, and revised the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... languages and will be further investigated with regard to psychometric properties in phase IV of the EORTC CAT development process The whole development process was defined based on the EORTC approach ... intensity of general and physical fatigue Also, the EORTC project has a strong focus on crosscultural applicability of the item bank and consequently includes collaborators and patients from various ... the item selection procedure (phase and 3) JMG, MAP, MG, and GK were involved in data analysis JMG, MAP, MG, GK and BH helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... children 5- years old provides the ideal setting for school-based oral health promotion programs and oral health care services To develop effective oral health promotion programs, there is a need ... reaching and educating Turkish young children, provides the ideal setting for school-based oral health promotion programs and oral health care services, there are neither nationwide oral health promotion ... the final-translation was fully comprehensible and to verify the cross- cultural equivalence of the source and final version In addition, the face and content validity of the scale were examined...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... cultures, thus helping eliminate ethnic stereotypes and misunderstandings Problems arise as language learners are not competent and fail to understand the cultural- social aspects of communication Take ... chapter provides the theoretical background including speech act theory, politeness strategies, pragmatics and cross- cultural pragmatics, and categories of inviting forms in English and Vietnamese ... of inviting provided by these participants were analyzed in the light of pragmatics and cross – cultural perspective and politeness strategies A full version of each questionnaire is provided in...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 08:03