o psychology cross cultural preferences in ideal job candidates

... from informants, but also contains the considerations in addressing to find out the underlying factors that determine the choice of linguistic forms that have been used and some dimensions in cross- cultural ... information about customs, relationships, and communication style, both verbal and nonverbal You will learn mainly about addressing people in other cultures Being polite is a complicated business ... politely or more informally, e.g In German Sie-du, in French Vous-tu, in Spanish Usted-tu and in Mandarin in Chinese nín-ni (you) If a language has only one-second-person pronoun form, e.g English you,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:31

... perspective of the dominant Planning and Positioning schools, managers are rational decision-makers taking strategic decisions in order to optimize the economic performance in their organizations through ... consequential choice, political processes of negotiation among conflicting interests, learning processes of reaction to experience or appropriating the knowledge of others, and selection processes ... structure on the one hand and ‘internal conscious awareness’ or conscious understanding of the organization’s internal conditions on the other hand (Bloodgood and Morrow Jr 2003) This criticism of Hrebiniak...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... conflicts seem to find support from Weaver's finding that feminine societies prefer to resolve conflict through negotiation and compromise (Weaver, 2000) As noted in the other categories above, while ... used to confronting problems directly and bringing things out in the open To resolve differences, American managers will prefer to use tactics that involve directly confronting others with rational ... idea, we will look at some relatively common cultural issues that impact communication, and thus, also have implications for Western corporations working in the Asia Pacific Rim Cross- Cultural Issues...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... Cross- cultural content development solutions used during PRO development Options for Cross- Cultural Harmonization of PRO Content Benefits Option 1: Address cultural issues using a rigorous translation ... sessions Since moderators often used insession probes to address questions raised by session observers, spontaneous use of probes in one group would have to be implemented across other sessions, ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... teachers should choose suitable kinds of cross- culture information to insert into the teaching lesson 3.2.2 Activities for improving cross- culture teaching methods in NDI high school A teacher who teaches ... situations, this helps distinguish one society or social group from another not only in term of the availability of those expressions and behaviors, but also in terms of their proportionality ... get information from internet, book but they not understand that enriching cultural knowledge here is not only enrich social knowledge but also develop communicative competence through cross- cultural...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:54

... not know or not wish to interact the other person In such situations like S1 (interviewing someone), S2 (persuading someone), S3 (confiding in someone), S6 (presenting to your boss), S9 (making ... position S3 S4 Cooperative position S5 S6 S7 S8 Competive-Defensive position S9 S10 Independent position Chart 6: Choice of seating positions by Anglophone informants Not many informants choose ... Among 50 Anglophone informants, 23 of them (46%) think cooperative is the position which is the most commonly used in this setting None of them vote for corner position, 30% choose competitive-defensive...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... opinion of resources to obtain cross- cultural knowledge Table 6: Students‟ opinions of cross- culture activities to motivate them Table 7: Students‟ opinion of cross- cultural elements taught in ... Topics Social taboos Social norms Politeness formulae People Living conditions Work Entertainment Food and drink Relationships Values People's attitudes Figure 6: Students’ opinion of cross -cultural ... Students‟ opinion of cross- cultural elements taught in conversation class vi PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale In our global world, where many people from a variety of cultures have to communicate in a...

Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 12:53

... driver: Good morning, Dr Jones Man 2: … ’morning, Oh, good morning, Dr Jones! Are you going to the clinic this morning? Man 1: Oh, good morning, professor! No, I’m going to hospital this morning (Malkocs, ... information How will you in greeting if you not know Forms of address any information of someone People Percentage 1.Pronouns 8% Titles 12 24 % “Provisional” addressing forms 0% Others 0% No forms ... to them and to others our relationship to them In general, the Vietnamese not say “good morning”, “good afternoon” or “good evening” There is only a simple standard formula to greet someone for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... to explain some information In part two, only four popular topics are suggested, not the entire one in daily communication It is similar in part three, the most popular topics in use with compliment ... of open and close ended questions, which contain three main parts: The first one is to find some general information about informants which are used to explain some unexpected findings during ... compliment on a person from another country The main purpose of this thesis is to raise the aware of culture gap It is done, focused on the comparison of the ways of giving compliment and responding to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... Examples of idioms with neutral meaning include: in somebody’s shoes (be in somebody’s position), bring something home to somebody (make somebody realize how important, difficult or serious something ... together to make up the meaning of a word In term of lexical meaning, a word consists of two types of meaning: denotation meaning (denotation) and connotation meaning (connotation) - Denotation indicates ... Therefore, many people choose teaching method of an integrated lesson which involves incorporating idioms into regular one that focus on any of the four skills The integrated lesson would be to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... knowing how to act when we are faced with puzzling cross- cultural situations are important skills for harmonious intercultural relations In other words, cross- cultural awareness is very important ... students to become more aware of conventional behaviour in common situations in the target culture • To help students to increase their awareness of the cultural connotations of words and phrases in ... and ideas so that they can incorporate the new information into their own worldview An example might be a cooking utensil Students would be told that the object is somehow used for cooking, and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... fluent in plowing and harrowing, transplanting and harvesting The most serious is to harvest the winter rain floods, cooperative neighborhood school did not mobilize enough manpower to germinate ... conditions Error! Bookmark not defined 1.1.1 Geographical location Error! Bookmark not defined 1.1.2 Topography and soil Error! Bookmark not defined 1.1.3 The transport system Error! Bookmark ... conditions and the formation of villages, the socioeconomic development lead to the transformation of culture, education, too building cultural life modern times in the overall process of formation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 17:31

... review of the methodology of cross- cultural adaptation Proposed standardized guide-lines based on the review International Society for Quality of Life Assessment project group recommendations Focused ... management of childhood ITP differs from country to country, therefore the process had to include the appropriate translation of terminology to accommodate the different approaches to the management of ... translation in order to retain their validity and reliability in a multi -cultural society and internationally In order to achieve accurate, cross- culturally comparable versions, formal methods of translation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... tooth Tooth space (due to an non-erupted permanent tooth) Fractured permanent tooth Colour of tooth Shape or size of tooth Position of tooth (e.g crooked or projecting, gap) Bleeding gum Swollen ... (mood) without becoming irritated or stressed Smiling, laughing and showing your teeth without embarrassment Carrying out your schoolwork (e.g going to school, learning in class, doing homework) ... emotional state without being irritable Smiling, laughing and showing your teeth without embarrassment Carrying out your schoolwork (e.g going to school, learning in class, doing homework) Contact...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Vernejoul MC, Wiklund I: Quality of life as outcome in the treatment of osteoporosis: the development of a questionnaire for quality of life by the European Foundation for Osteoporosis Osteoporos Int ... occurrence in osteoporosis Groups of patients were defined according to the occurrence or not of the following types of fracture: all types of osteoporotic fracture Page of 10 (page number not ... of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis) [16], the OQLQ (Osteoporosis Quality of Life Questionnaire) and the OFDQ (Osteoporosis Functional Disability Questionnaire) [17] The OPTQoL is a cross- sectional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... TUMO*R or CHEMOTHERAPY or ONCOL*) and (FATIGUE or TIREDNESS or DROWSINESS) and (QUESTIONNAIRE or INVENTORY or SCALE or MODULE or MEASURE*) All items from questionnaires or subscales claiming to ... focus on crosscultural applicability of the item bank and consequently includes collaborators and patients from various countries in all development stages In contrast, development of the PROMIS ... almost impossible to move your body? Item 12 Have you had trouble starting things because you were tired? Item 13 Have you been too tired to even simple things? Item 14 Have you found shopping...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... review of the methodology of cross- cultural adaptation Proposed standardized guide-lines based on the review International Society for Quality of Life Assessment project group recommendations Focused ... management of childhood ITP differs from country to country, therefore the process had to include the appropriate translation of terminology to accommodate the different approaches to the management of ... translation in order to retain their validity and reliability in a multi -cultural society and internationally In order to achieve accurate, cross- culturally comparable versions, formal methods of translation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... namely invite and invitation Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary indicates that to invite means to ask somebody to come to a social event or to ask somebody formally to go to somewhere or something ... carrying out invitation-making in real life situations In addition, the study’s findings hope to make contributions to raising the importance of studying the cross- culture for English majors in Dong ... proportion in daily interactions Inviting undoubtedly plays an important role in communication in all cultures Wall (1987) indicated that many of our daily social interactions involve making invitations...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 08:03

... is not only a normal utterance but also an issue of great concern Apologizing occurs in every culture to maintain good relations between interlocutors When one apologizes, one may intend not merely ... human communication occurs in every culture to maintain good relations between interlocutors It can also be expression of contribution and remorse for something wrong Brown and Levinson (1987) ... are found guilty or not, that how much power people have in conversation Their word choice of apology strategy depends on their minor mistake or serious one The following formula shows from the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 18:51