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| What are some changes in the common workplace environment? |
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| Global market competitiveness. Technology enhancements. Workforce diversity. Downsizing. Ethics. |
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| What are some examples of businesses no longer constrained by national borders? |
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| McDonald’s, KFC, Ford and General Motors,Exxon, Coca-Cola, and AFLAC |
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| Americans see things solely through their own eyes and from their uniquely American perspective. We view our practices as being better than the practices of other countries. |
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| Values, Morals, Customs and laws of contries |
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| Values competitiveness, assertiveness, ambition, and accumulation of wealth and material goods |
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| Individual before the group with expectations that the individuals will stand up for themselves: independent: |
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| Group above the individual. Interdependence. |
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| The distribution of power. High power distance = more power based on higher rank. Low power distance = small amount of power differences between the ranks |
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| High uncertainty avoidance |
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| Prefer rules and structure, dislike change. Interdependence |
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| Low uncertainty avoidance |
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| Operate effectively in the absense of external forces on politics, society and economic issues. Independent |
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| More value on relationships and overall worth of ones life to society. |
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| Any equipment, tool, or operating method designed to make work more efficient |
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| Involve integrating technology with any process for changing inputs into outputs |
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| the way an organization does its work by using electronic linkages with its key constituents to achieve its goals efficiently and effectively. |
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| standard label to describe the online buying and selling of products or services. |
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| What are some negative aspects of E-Business? |
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| Difficulty in recruiting employees, Difficulty in motivating employees, cyberloafing, Changed communication |
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| Lost productivity time as a result of an employee using the Internet at work for personal reasons |
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| Males, females, whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, people with disabilities, homosexuals, straights, and the elderly |
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| Born prior to 1946 -shortly after the Great Depression, Security oriented and committed to work ethic, Sometimes viewed as the foundation of the work force, Seen as having obsolete skills, of being inflexible, and set in their ways. |
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| Largest group in the work force, Regarded as career climbers, Viewed as ambitious to a fault, workaholics, and unrealistic in their views. |
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Born between 1965 and 1975. Less commitment, less rule bound, and more into own gratification.
Viewed as selfish and not willing to play by the rules. |
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Born since 1976.
—Want to be treated as colleagues rather than subordinates.
—Want to be guided with a friendly but firm hand.
—Big on open communication and want to give and receive feedback readily.
—Want their ideas and opinions to be taken seriously.
—Want supervisors to recognize and fix problems, and reward performance in real-time. |
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| "Lean and mean". Reducing the workplace with goals of greater efficiency and less cost |
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| What the Japanese call continuous improvement |
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| Activities that enhance processes that lead to improved quality of goods and services |
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| Radical or quantam change in an organization |
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—Performance declines.
—Budget deficiencies.
—Cumbersome policies.
—Fear of conflict and risks.
—Tolerance of work incompetence.
—Poor communications within department. |
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| Obligation an organization has to persue long-term goals that are good for society |
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| Meeting the economic and legal requirements, not exceeding. |
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| An attempt to do things that make society better and to not do things that could make society worse |
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| The rules/principles that define right or wrong conduct |
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| A formal document that states an organization’s primary values and ethical rules it expects employees to follow. |
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