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Cultural Negotiations, 2008.
This paper examines cultural differences related to negotiations.
2,065 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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The paper relates that cultural differences can remarkably impact negotiations. The paper then examines and compares Western and Asian styles of negotiation as well as negotiation styles in Latin America and Germany.
Outline:
Introduction
The Negotiation Process
Differences in Negotiating Styles
American Style of Negotiations
German Style of Negotiations
Latin American Style of Negotiation
Conclusion
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"Characterizing any national or cultural approaches to negotiations is rather an intricate task although generalizations are often derived. However any generalizations are applicable or otherwise depending on a lot of contextual factors such as time, environment, circumstances, stakes, prior experiences in dealing between the parties, type of the problem, personal preferences, how interpersonal relationships work and temperament. Any sort of generalizations will be applicable to certain members of the group some of the time and therefore it is dependent on the changing situational needs. It is perhaps the reason why we defy simple categorizations and broad classifications. Concurrently it is essential to retreat and try to observe ourselves and others from an audience level so that the patterns and habits which are defined as standard in negotiation can be analyzed for what they stand for are culturally adhered and cultural defined common sense."
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Organizational Change and Communication Plans, 2008.
A research study that examines whether instructors of distance education perceive a communication action plan as being supportive of organizational change.
5,247 words (approx. 21.0 pages), 25 sources, APA, $ 130.95
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This paper presents a research study that assesses whether the presence of a communication action plan influences employee responses to organizational change. The paper focuses attention on employees' acceptance of organizational change. The paper also describes the research design, the method of data collection and the survey methodology. An annotated bibliography is included with the paper.
Outline:
Introduction
Statement of the Research Problem
Definition of Key Terms
Brief Overview of Related Literature
Methodology
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"Communication plans that are developed by the organization instill the need for change throughout the organization, enable individuals to understand the impact of the change, and communicate any structural and job changes that will affect the employees (Cawsey & Deszca, 2008). Distance education providers are targeted to continue to grow at approximately 16% a year over the next 10 years (Howell, Williams, & Lindsay, 2003). Over 1.5 million out of 19 million postsecondary students took at least one distance education course in the 1999-2000 school year (Ashby, 2002). The current higher education infrastructure cannot accommodate the growing college-aged population and enrollments, making more distance education programs necessary (Howell et al, 2003). As current distance educational providers attempt to accommodate this growth and make their distance education models scalable, organizational change will be ongoing."
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Communication in Business, 2008.
This paper looks at the role of effective communication in an organization.
826 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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The paper discusses how effective communication is important in an organization to maintain the business and its revenue. The paper looks at Marty Blalock's reasons for the importance of effective communication within an organization. The paper also shows how communication should be effective on all levels, both within the company and towards the external world.
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"Firstly, the organization consists of a variety of persons with different personalities, paradigms, and needs. In other words, organizations consist of people, as Marty Blalock (2005) puts it. The larger the organization, the greater the likelihood that these needs and paradigms will come into conflict. If not handled properly, conflict can lead to organizational dysfunction. On the other hand, effective communication can turn conflict situations in opportunities to work better together as a team within the organization. Effective communication is therefore important to ensure that internal relationships within the company contribute to the wellbeing of the company itself."
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Communication in Organizations, 2008.
This paper explores the role of communication in an organization's success.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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The paper discusses how business is a form of human communication, thus communication skills are essential for any organization. The paper explains that the strength of an organization's communications will determine its ability to build relationships with clients, human resources and institutions, will help to avoid legal imbroglios and will create good public relations. The paper also looks at verbal and nonverbal methods of communication and addresses the need for communications management.
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"With the most fundamental transaction, business is a form of human communication. A vendor and buyer communicate: each wanting something from the exchange and expressing that need through verbal or nonverbal cues. When businesses and their surrounding markets become more complex, the need for communications skills becomes more apparent. A vendor might need to sell goods and services to a foreign market, demanding some basic knowledge of language and culture. The vendor who needs to hire employees will also need to learn how to manage that team. Ultimately, businesses need to communicate their business and services to the prospective consumer market."
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Popular Culture and Electronic Media, 2008.
This paper discusses electronic media and its effect on American popular culture.
852 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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The paper relates that music, television and media in general are part of American popular culture, with each one impacting the evolution of the cultural environment. The paper discusses how there are beneficial trends, such as the information capability and the perspective of relaxation and leisure time, but there is also the major trend of the media manipulating and influencing the social and personal behavior of individuals.
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"The notion of culture is a relative term in most periods of the time. Its definition varies according to the selection criteria and the point of reference. In this sense, for instance, while the French culture is considered to be one of the most important proofs of the civilized world from the point of view of the traditional art critic, there are those that see in the American manifestations of culture the most obvious signs of development of the evolution scale. However, the American culture, to those that decide to accept its existence, differs in terms of components from the rest of the traditional cultural values. Thus, music, television, media in general are part of what can today be described as the American popular culture."
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Communicating Change, 2008.
Looks at communicating change in an organizational context.
2,570 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses theoretical perspectives on communicating change, analyzing and incorporating a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject of change in organizations. . The paper also notes that these perspectives on communicating change are explanatory not predictive in nature, although the research does make it simple to predict how individuals in an organization may respond to change if not properly communicated. The paper stresses that change can easily be incorporated into the culture of an organization when communicated to all levels of the organization in a top-down and horizontal manner.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Executive Summary
Literature Review
Discussion and Conclusion
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"Wendt & Fairhurst (1994) note often when organizations try to adopt a consultative or visionary approach to communicating, they neglect to concentrate on the details of communication essential to successful integration of change in the organization. These details include communicating change on many levels. Some individuals will embrace change when it is communicated orally alone; others will require written contact, in the form of policies and procedural changes they must sign and acknowledge."
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Televised Political Debates, 2008.
Looks at televised political debates as a key strategy in political races.
1,570 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that televised debates, which are essential in every major political race, are more than the traditional campaign advertising on which most strategies relied in the past. The author points out that the Kennedy-Nixon televised debates in 1960, which were the first major use of this media, justified the preference for televised debates as tools in political campaigns. The paper relates the advantages and disadvantages of televised debates
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"The direct contact between the audience and the candidates created during such debates also draws the attention on the actual human perspective of the candidate. Indeed, candidates are the representatives of the society they come from, still they are humans, and the personal perspective of his character tends to draw the attention of most viewers during election time. It may be that during Abraham Lincoln's campaigning days, character traits were more or less placed aside and the impact of the message he delivered was not influenced by his personality."
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The Swastika, 2008.
A look at the history of the swastika and how it has been in existence for over 3,000 years, and a variety of cultures have used it in a variety of ways.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 32.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of cultural symbols and their importance to society. Specifically, the paper researches the history of one of the world's most infamous cultural symbols - the swastika. The paper relates that the history of this notorious symbol is long and varied, and much of it has little to do with the hatred and violence that mark it today. The swastika is an ancient symbol used for decoration and ornamentation, but it has come to civilize the Nazis, one of the most brutal cultures on earth.
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"Interestingly, there are many buildings and infrastructure decorated with swastikas even here in the United States. One is the Laguna Dam, near Yuma Arizona. Built in the early 1900s, it was the first dam to harness the Colorado River, and it took technology from India to accomplish the feat. Bureau of Reclamation engineers traveled to India to study their dams and weirs, and when they came back, they designed the dam with traditional Hindu symbols for good luck. In fact, for a short while, the bureau's flag even sported the symbol."
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Women in the Media, 2008.
An argument that the image of women is created by the mass media in order to help maintain male power.
1,046 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper refers to Naomi Wolf's assertion in "The Beauty Myth" that the media is creating a particular image of women with the goal of keeping them in a less powerful role within the patriarchal system. The paper discusses the popular image of thin, beautiful women that forces women to concentrate all their energy and time on trying to become thin instead of attaining more power.
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"Naomi Wolf has published a book entitled The Beauty Myth. This book argues that the mass media deliberately creates and disseminates a particular image of women. The mass media creates an ideal of female beauty. Wolf believes that this ideal is a method of keeping women in a less powerful role within the patriarchal system. Wolf argues that the media pushes this image so hard because of a backlash against the feminist movement. She believes that this image encourages women to use up all their time and energy on diet and exercise, to try and look like the ideal. If they cannot succeed (and most women cannot match up to this ideal), then they will be filled with anxiety. In either case, they will have no energy and confidence for business and politics."
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Article: Jill Smolowe's "A Town Divided", 2008.
An analysis of Jill Smolowe's article "A Town Divided".
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper analyzes Jill Smolowe's article, "A Town Divided", about six young African-American male high school students, labeled the Jena 6 by the media, who were arrested and charged with attempted murder in an adult courtroom for beating a young Caucasian male student to unconsciousness. The paper first presents background information about the incident and then takes a look how the article covered it. Specifically, the paper discusses the ethos, logos, and pathos of the articles and concludes that, overall, the article is effective in creating sympathetic feelings for the Jena 6, as the original charges they faced and their initial treatment was definitely unfair.
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Commentary
Argument Analysis Essay
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"The argument in this piece is very subtle but obviously clear and seeks to present the six African American males as sympathetic characters, which is the ethos of this article. Only the African American point of view is presented in interviews with some of the accused and their families, with none of the Caucasian participants given a chance to speak or express their side of the story. This logos makes sense when the aim of the article is to humanize one faction in a story, while demonizing the other."
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A Multidisciplinary Team Approach in the ICU, 2008.
This paper looks at the multidisciplinary approach and how its implementation would benefit the intensive care unit (ICU).
1,213 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The paper provides a literature review that shows how multidisciplinary teams comprising a full range of healthcare professionals have the ability to enhance patient care, reduce intensive care unit (ICU) stays, reduce critical incidents and even enhance collaboration to the point of synergy. The paper also discusses the practical factors that militate against universal implementation of the multidisciplinary model. The paper concludes, however, that with a shared focus on the common goal of patient care and some culture changes, it is clearly possible to develop a degree of interdependence and better patient outcomes utilizing multidisciplinary teams.
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"Wilson and Pirrie's (2000) article entitled "Multidisciplinary teamworking indicators of good practice" makes the general case for multidisciplinary teams. Wilson and Pirrie (2000) point out that the new emphasis is on "working together to deliver a co-ordinated, some would argue integrated, service to end-users" (p. 1). This, they argue, requires a strong association based on interdependence, and aimed at a shared purpose, such that the team achieves "something that's more than the sum of its parts ... a metaperspective" (p. 2). "
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Information Systems in the U.S. Army, 2008.
This paper discusses the US Army's satellite communications network (SATCOM).
808 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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The paper outlines the functionality and global-interconnectivity of the US Army's satellite communications network (SATCOM) and what the consequences would be if that system were to collapse. The paper discusses the strategic importance of such an information system and describes how a failure of remote, internet-based communications would threaten US security.
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"To begin with, how might one describe the functionality and interconnectivity of the SATCOM network? Perhaps the best introductory description is that SATCOM is intended to connect ground troops to satellites and UAVs. The technology, at present, provides troops with satellite phones, antennae and modems from which troops in the field could receive important information - updated constantly and transmitted instantaneously. An Army spokesman describes the new-fangled WIN-T generation of the system (which is, of course, being constantly updated) as something in which soldiers in the field receive "advanced antenna" and "smaller form factors" that can be fitted onto vehicles so that information transmission can be conducted while formations are moving."
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