THE relationship OF eastern religions and POLITICS Introduction The nature of relationship between religion and politics is generally regarded as one of the most pressing and sensitive issues in the contemporary society. The policy is primarily determined by the economic interests of the people. Social strata and groups who are characterized by wealth and authority, use the power of the state in order to maintain and / or strengthen their position. The desire for power is one of the strongest…
The most debatable reason for such transfer can be global competition pressure. Transferring policies and practices across their subsidiaries is looked as an incentive on the basis of competitive advantage (A Review of Theories on Transnational Transfer of HR Practice within Multinationals, Tianyuan Yu, in May 2009). According to Kostova T. (1999) in order to achieve synergy and effectiveness, MNCs often go for transnational transfers of their HR policies and practices that replicate their…
Work life balance is a balance between flow and time, the flow of managing time by use of technology and setting priorities in life. The aim of this paper is to study gender perception (what faculties interpret) and perspective (how faculties view) on work life balance. The study is descriptive and pure quantitative in nature. It is based on the primary method of data collection. The variables considered in work domain are organisational policies, organisation culture, subordinate support; the…
Recent Development of Softbank International Business Recently, In 2004 Softbank acquired the Japan Telecom, Japan’s third-largest fixed-line operator. (SoftBank Group, 2004) After this times of acquired, Softbank formally entering the traditional telecom business. Also, Softbank owns several different companies such as Japan Cable Co., Ltd., BB-Serve, a cable company, and GungHo Online Entertainment, a gaming company. In addition, Softbank has partnerships with Japanese subsidiaries of…
Al Shabaab was the first terrorist organization to use an American citizen to conduct a suicide bombing mission more than five years ago. Since then, the group has consistently targeted civilians and non-combatants to achieve their goals and has continued to attract Americans and other foreigners to its ranks. The group controls a large swath of territory in southern and central Somalia which enables the group to train and operate freely without any real interference. It has managed to survive…
On March 31st, 1854, officials from the United States and Japan signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, opening Japanese ports to trade with the United States, as well as the West, after being closed off to foreigners since 1683 (“Treaty of Kanagawa signed with Japan”). While this was just the first step of the globalization process, the complex mechanisms of globalization continue to shape Japan today. After World War II, due to Japan’s rapid growth, the country emerged as a major global player and…
globalization, many companies decide to export their products. For this purpose they need to choose carefully the market to enter and a certain entry strategy for this market. Companies can face many different obstacles during the process of internationalization like difficulty of choice of an appropriate entry mode. Bestmedical is planning to export its products to the USA because it believes to be the most important market for them. Furthermore they want to enhance its market share, turnover…
communication; developing critical thinking skills to critically interpret intercultural interactions; and to promote awareness and sensitivity in terms of the complex nature of intercultural interactions (Driskell et al., 2010). Research indicates that internationalization of students and increased competency and awareness in varying cultural contexts is of utmost importance in many post-secondary education institutions globally (Ayoubi & Massoud, 2007; Bohman & Borglin, 2013). Clarke et al.…
Here we meet with a third factor to the globalization movement primitives that can be represented in the form of a question: why global problems should be seen as more important than many problems of individual states and nations, both large and small? It is, therefore, about the prevalence of national values over the world. Recent perceived by people as something important, but distant, as values that we all know who comprehended and recognized, but did not feel, are not included, so to speak,…
Trilokekar, of the Faculty of Education at York University, argues that globalization of Canada’s education should become an investment for Canada with internationalization and international students becoming pivotal to provincial and national education polices. Those foreign policies should broaden as secondary educational institutes are more than local, but global assets for the country (par. 49). More aid should…