Global Comm Exam 1

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Globalization

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-Process
-Increasingly interconnected world
-Global flows of processes, commodities, desires, and pleasures, movements, information

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Forms of Globalization

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-Economic (Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- shows global impact)
-Work Environment (team-based management), work force (composition)
-Information Technology (E.g.: social networking sites)
-Different Players (E.g.: gangs) on the global stage
-Pop culture flows (E.g.: Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood)

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Define cosmopolitan (what are we)

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-to be aware of the world -- this creates the ability to communicate and understand the world better
-WE ARE ALL COSMOPOLITAN LEADERS & COMMUNICATORS!

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3 Perspectives on Global Comm.

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1. Skeptic
2. Hyperglobalist
3.Transformationalist

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Skeptic Perspective on Global Comm.

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-no such thing as globalization
-an updated era of western hegemony (domination, imperialism) driven by communication technologies

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Hyperglobalist Perspective on Global Comm.

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-a new, unprecedented world that is upsetting old hierarchies
-globalization encompasses the entire globe

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Transformationalist Perspective on Global Comm.

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-an age of higher levels of interconnectedness

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Trends in Globalization

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-Growth in the number of international organizations and partnerships in global opportunities has resulted in changes in economics, politics, culture, religion, science, sport education, health and medicine

-Expectations of professional staff, and increase in interest with "products of mind-work" in forward-thinking corps.

-Relocation of people around the world and the search for skills wherever available (social mobility)

-Confluence of forces: trade (& trade agreements), transportation, technologies (communication), models of nonhierarchical, egalitarian (believing all people are equal and deserve equal rights) organizations

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Major International Trade Group Organizations

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-United Nations/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1945/1947)
-*Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (1989)
-*European Union (1993)
-*North American Free Trade Agreement (1994)
-WTO (World Trade Org.) (1995)
-Central American-Dominican Republic FTA (CAFTA-DR) (2005)
*These 3 largest trade groups account for about half of the world's trade

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Five Organizational Training models

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-Intellectual/Classroom model

-Area

-Cultural Awareness

-Multidimensional

-Technological

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Intellectual/Classroom Model Training Model

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-cognitive, culture-specific

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Area Training Model

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-attitudinal adjustment, culture-specific

-Emphasizes experiential processes

-Participants engage in selected simulations & role-play experiences that emphasize flexible thinking, problem solving, & attitudinal adjustment in a particular culture

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Cultural Awareness Training Model

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-affective goals, and emphasizes cultural insights & awareness culture general (does not provide extensive knowledge of specific culture)

-Participants contrast their values with those of other cultures, using simulations and role playing.

-Participants interact with people visiting from other countries

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Multidimensional Training model

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-integrative of cognitive, attitudinal and affective

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Technological Training Model

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-computer mediated communication

-self-learning

*can be used within in all other models

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How-tos

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-Be adaptive: accept amiguity & uncertainty (adapt to change)

-Be thoughtful: hit the pause button before acting & reacting

-Be creative & hardworking: industriousness

-Be resourceful: problem solving

-Be a lifelong learner: exposing, learning, understanding

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Monge 3 Dynamic Processes

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-Time-space compression

-Global consciousness

-Disembeddedness

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Time-space compression Process

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-the process of time-space compression began in the 18th century, continued into the 19th century and accelerated in the 20th century acceleration because of communication & technology)

-time is getting shorter and space is getting smaller

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Global Consciousness Process

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-we are becoming increasingly conscious of our world as a single place

-Global consciousness through reflexivity (cause & effect)

-becoming aware of other cultures and adapting to them

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Disembeddedness Process

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-freeing or lifting human interactions from local contexts and restructuring them across time and space

-not being ethnocentric

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2 forms of knowledge

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-Migratory

-Embedded

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Migratory Knowledge

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-from books, designs, individual minds, machines

-knowledge that is transportable

**helps more with globalization than embedded knowledge

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Embedded Knowledge

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-resides primarily in specialized relationships among individuals and groups, in norms & attitudes

-in craftsmanship, in group expertise

-E.g.: Amish woodworking cannot be done in China, the Amish are the ones who know how to do it and it is a speciality

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Tung & Miller: U.S Companies need to consider strategic linkages & to do so requires that they understand what globalization means by:

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1. Assessing the extent of a company's global activity

2. Having a leadership that is responsible for implanting & nurturing the globalization process

3. Institutionalizing human resource policies -- including management training & promotion and executive development.