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24 Cards in this Set
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Globalization |
-Process |
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Forms of Globalization |
-Economic (Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- shows global impact) |
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Define cosmopolitan (what are we) |
-to be aware of the world -- this creates the ability to communicate and understand the world better |
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3 Perspectives on Global Comm. |
1. Skeptic |
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Skeptic Perspective on Global Comm. |
-no such thing as globalization |
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Hyperglobalist Perspective on Global Comm. |
-a new, unprecedented world that is upsetting old hierarchies |
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Transformationalist Perspective on Global Comm. |
-an age of higher levels of interconnectedness |
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Trends in Globalization |
-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 |
-United Nations/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1945/1947) |
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Five Organizational Training models |
-Intellectual/Classroom model -Area -Cultural Awareness -Multidimensional -Technological |
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Intellectual/Classroom Model Training Model |
-cognitive, culture-specific
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Area Training Model |
-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 |
-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 |
-integrative of cognitive, attitudinal and affective |
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Technological Training Model |
-computer mediated communication -self-learning *can be used within in all other models |
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How-tos |
-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 |
-Time-space compression -Global consciousness -Disembeddedness |
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Time-space compression Process |
-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 |
-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 |
-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 |
-Migratory -Embedded |
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Migratory Knowledge |
-from books, designs, individual minds, machines -knowledge that is transportable **helps more with globalization than embedded knowledge |
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Embedded Knowledge |
-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: |
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.
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