In the health care practice, there are those aspects of culture that are sensitive and that the health care practitioners need to consider when making decisions related to the practice. Some of these cultural aspects are those that contradict with the principles of modern medicine. Therefore, by the practitioner having a good understanding of these sensitive aspects of culture, he/she will be able to make the appropriate decision for the situation at hand.

Communication skills are also important for all culturally competent health care professionals. For example, in situations which concern culture and the norms associated with culture based on the amount of information that can be disclosed and the type of information. This can form a serious barrier in the provision of health care and therefore the practitioner needs to understand the culture and the norms in order to be able to enable communication and self-disclosure of the patient.

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References

AUSTRALIAN NURSING and MIDWIFERY COUNCIL National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse. Australia: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council.

BURNS, N. & GROVE, S.K. 2009. The practice of nursing research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence., St. Louis, MO Elsevier.

CROSS, T., BAZRON, B., DENNIS, K. & ISAACS, M. 1989. Towards a Culturally Competent System of Care, Volume I, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Child Development Center, CASSP Technical Assistance Center.

LEE, H.C., DUDLEY, R.A. & GONZALES, R. 2011. Translating Evidence into Practice, Policy, and Public Health in Perinatal Medicine. NeoReviews, 12, e431-e438.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The company that I am researching is McDonalds. McDonalds has expanded around the world and brings with it service standards and food standards that exemplify the brand. For the company, the cultural issue relates to many aspects of service in foreign countries. Dietary restrictions are one in particular that the company needs to address -- in some places people do not eat pork while in other places people do not eat beef. There are also environmental issues where the company is using beef from ranchland that came from deforestation -- in countries like Brazil, for example. The company also faces ethical problems with respect to its role in childhood obesity, a concern of some in estern markets. Overall, McDonalds has to address ethical issues around the world that stem from difference between the different cultures.

Cultural Issue

McDonalds must meet the expectations of culture wherever it operates, and this entails a…...

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Works Cited:

Whitehouse, L. (2003). Corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship and the global compact. Global Social Policy. Vol. 3 (3) 299-318.

Werther, W. & Chandler, W. (no date) Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility. Sage Publications.

Cross-Cultural Issue
COSS Cultural Perspective GLOBALIZATION.

Globalization and Starbucks

Few aspects of individual's lives are more personal than that of the coffee they consume. The Starbucks Corporation has been forced to adjust its offerings and approach to marketing to address the needs and expectations of consumers abroad. There have also been ethical considerations about encroaching upon local businesses, as the Starbucks empire gains worldwide traction. Starbucks has tried to answer these concerns by giving back to the communities in which it has established itself.

Starbucks globalization can best be described as a kind of 'middle path:' Starbucks has attempted to stay true to the basic philosophy of the company without offending local sensibilities. According to its current CEO: "On a country-by-country basis, the largest hurdle we had to overcome was thinking we had to be different. There are regional differences in every market, but the main reason we are successful in the U.S. is…...

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References

Aigerim, Tulepbergenova. (2010). Starbucks' global expansion. Business Today. Retrieved:

http://www.businesstoday.org/online-journal/starbucks-global-expansion

Hauser, S. (2006). Is Starbucks globalization? Loaded Learning. Retrieved:

 http://sehauser.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/is-starbucks-globalization/

This is because workers, managers, and other employees know their roles within the company. This awareness enables them to work towards improving service delivery to the consumers according to the standards of the industry. Since extensive research is done to determine what the consumers perceive to be best, execution of expectations is easy from the part of the formal leadership or management of the firms. The company is able to associate effectively with the clients since they have a better knowledge than before on what is appropriate for the market (Brey, 2011).
Deeper understanding of hospitality enables managers and senior employees to adopt appropriate measures to revive the industry in cases of crisis. In order to adopt appropriate measure to help boost the industry, it is crucial to understand the structure, organization, and proceedings within the hospitality industry. Managers are also capable of determining approaches vital for improving the conditions…...

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References

Brey, E.T. (2011). Developing a Better Understanding of Resort Management: An Inquiry into Industry Practices. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 20(1), 79-102.

doi:10.1080/19368623.2011.530188

Hemmington, N. (2007). From Service to Experience: Understanding and Defining the Hospitality Business. Service Industries Journal, 27(6), 747-755.

doi:10.1080/02642060701453221

Culture and Christian Education
In the age of globalization, there is an increase of cross cultural interactions. There have been clashes between culture and Christian education in many societies throughout history. The goal of Christian educators in the 21st Century is to learn how they can cross over cultural barriers so as to plant the gospel education in nay other native soil apart from where they are from. There are always general attempts to reach everyone and no one particularly. Once there is a specific culture set in Christian education then it will mean that some people will be excluded. The paper will look at some of the cross cultural perspectives when it comes to Christian education.it will look at how Christian education can be done and the development of curriculum cross culturally.

Cross-cultural curriculum is a channel of communication and a well developed plan for making connections and experiences. We are…...

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References

Angus, E.(2005).Cross-cultural Christian education curriculum development. Retrieved October 7,2013 from  http://old.religiouseducation.net/member/01_papers/angus.pdf 

Cole, M.(2005).Cross-cultural and historical perspectives on developmental consequences of education. Retrieved October 7,2013 from  http://lchc.ucsd.edu/People/MCole/humdev.pdf

eligion in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Salime's notion of the entanglement and interdependant trajectories of the feminist & Islamist movements in Morocco

Last century was spent fighting for human rights. Zakia Salime was among those who joined movements for women rights in middle east. She discusses how decades of fights over widening the expression and rights transformed Moroccan feminism and Islamism. She is active in feminist movement since 1990s. She wrote extensively on Moroccan feminism highlighting that here was not enough research on the topic already. There had been serious influence on feminism in Middle East and the efforts led to development of a clear gender policy. She showed light on how Islamist women influenced public representations of feminism and the rights of women (Salime, 2011). In her book "Between Feminism and Islam: Human ights and Sharia Law in Morocco" she defies approaches causing pressure on division of the women's movements on the lines…...

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References

Sadeghi, F., (2011), "By passing Islamism and Feminism: Women's Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran', Retrieved from:  http://remmm.revues.org/6936 

Salime, Z., (2011), "New Texts Out Now: Zakia Salime, Between Feminism and Islam: Human

Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco" Retrieved from:  http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3341/ 

Salime, Z., (2012). "A New Feminism? Gender Dynamics in Morocco's February 20th

Abu-Lughod (2002), focusing on superficial issues such as female dress codes in the Muslim world not only detracts from important underlying social and political issues. The notion that Muslim women need to be "saved" is a relic of a colonial past. Muslim women may have no trouble reconciling traditional garb like head scarves or even burkas with life in the modern world. Even when life in the modern world for Muslim women takes on a different appearance than it does for Western women, higher principles such as social justice need to prevail. It is inherently arrogant to assume that head coverings and veils are symbols of oppression, signs that all Muslim women are subservient. Some of the more extreme types of head cover such as the burka are sometimes viewed as signs of social status in a community, meaning that women who wear these types of garments do so…...

ising Suicide ates for South Korea |
Public Health Issues

A Socio-cultural Perspective on ising Suicide ate for South Koreans

Suicide is an overarching social concern that affects all age groups. In recent years, there has been growing concern regarding the increasing rates of suicidal tendencies among adolescents. The Korea National Statistical Office reported that suicide numbers for ages 10 -- 29 years in South Korea (1,255) comprised 22.2% of the total number of suicides (5,663) for the year 2002, thus representing a higher percentage of total suicide victims, compared with those in other age groups (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007). In addition, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in the adult population in 1992 and the seventh leading cause of death in 2002, but was the fourth leading cause of death in 2005 in the Korean population. More importantly, suicide was one of the three most prevalent causes…...

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References

Ashton, J. (1980) The Epidemic of Suicide by Fire. New Society 54(1): 58-60.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007). YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Youth Online: Comprehensive Results. Retrieved Nov. 26, 2010 from http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/

Cho, Young-rae (2003) A Single Spark The Biography of Chun Tae-il. Trans. Soon-ok Chun. Seoul: Dolbegae Publishers.

Crosby, K., Joong-Oh R., and Holland, J. (1991). "Suicide by Fire: A Contemporary Method of Political Protest." International Journal of Sodal Psychiatry, 23(1): 60-69.

organizations increasingly global diverse nature, leaders work develop a cultural mindset diversity thrive decreasing productivity. In assignment, address development implementation a cultural mindset a diverse global group employees.
Cultural Mindset Development

Companies' employees in a European country must work together with their employees in an Asian country. Cultural differences between these countries are important, and they influence relationships between employees, but also their efficiency and productivity. Therefore, it is in companies' best interest to ensure a cultural mindset that allows diversity while not affecting people's productivity.

Integrating Perspectives

Much of the work in integrating different perspectives in the attempt to become successful in a culturally diverse society relies on the leader. One of the most important skills of leaders relies on their ability to integrate varied perspectives within their team, workplace, or company (Romanenko, 2012). This is because culturally diverse environments provide varied opinions on most issues addressed by the company. Business views…...

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3. Boje, D. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. Retrieved April 15, 2014 from  http://books.google.ro/books?id=gIwGrRW_KloC&printsec=frontcover&dq=communication+methods&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=OYxNU8zTM4POygPdrICYCg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=communication%20methods&f=false .

4. Romanenko, A. (2012). Cultural Diversity Management in Organizations: Psychological Variables Diversity Trainings. Retrieved April 15, 2014 from  http://books.google.ro/books?id=IYdhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=cultural+diversity+organizations&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=z45NU9-iGMep4ASMt4DQCw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=cultural%20diversity%20organizations&f=false .

5. Janssesns, M. et al. (2010). The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity: Nations, Cities and Organizations. Retrieved April 15, 2014 from  http://books.google.ro/books?id=X_b_Ey4pQnYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+diversity+organizations&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=hI9NU5aoOqPy4QSDqoGwBA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cultural%20diversity%20organizations&f=false .

Sociocultural Approach to Motivation in Learning
By grounding a comparison within the context of motivation, ueda and Dembo demonstrate that a synthesis of cognitive and sociocultural frameworks in educational psychology is feasible as both frameworks place a great deal of emphasis on constructivism and a mastery rather than performance goal approach. Though the two approaches also have fundamental differences in so much that the cognitive framework focuses on psychological constructs of motivation as located within the individual, while the sociocultural perspective is that a complete understanding of such mental activity must be grounded in larger sociocultural contexts or activity settings, the article suggests that integrating the two would lead to significant advances in improving learning. To prove the point, the article analyses the case of an under performing minority student, Alex, through both a cognitive and sociocultural perspective on the student's motivational problems and intervention strategies. By virtue of such an…...

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References

McNamara, M.P. (2004, Jan 20). In Fighting Stereotypes, Students Lift Test Scores.

The New York Times: Health. Retrieved Jan 26, 2004:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/health/psychology/20INCO.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1075115565-BoR1Aw3+Sr011P/Bjhu44Q 

Rueda, R & Dembo, M.H. (1995). Motivational Processes in Learning: A Comparative

Cultural Counselor
Being a counselor can sometimes be a really tough job. Counseling can only be effective and beneficial when the counselor places himself or herself in the shoes of his or her client. If he or she is unable to do so, he or she will never become an effective counselor. Placing oneself in the circumstances of someone else is not easy, let alone placing oneself in the shoes of a person who is of a different race, religion or culture. That is the real test of a counselor. In this paper I shall discuss what is required to understand the cross-cultural relationships in counseling to help the client get over their problem easily. All the dimensions pertaining to counseling (of a client of a different background that the counselor) will discussed with the case scenario.

Case Scenario

When clients and counselors have different cultural (or ethnic or racial) backgrounds, the need…...

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References:

Cannon, E.P. (2008). "Promoting moral reasoning and multicultural competence during internship." Journal of Moral Education, 37(4), 503-518.

Crethar, Hugh C. And Ratts, Manivong J. (2008). "Why Social Justice is a Counseling Concern?"

Gilbert, Jane. (2002). "Cross-cultural issues in counseling skillstraining: lessons from Lesotho."

Journal of Social Development in Africa. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Cultural school focuses on the culture of the individual entities that form the organization. Culture, it asserts, drives the organization's judgment and operational strategy resulting in differences such as between a Japanese and American organization.
In contradistinction to the power school that places the loci on the individual as well as the entrepreneurial school that does likewise (this time on the leader), the cultural school insists that individuals are a homogenized whole, their decision, beliefs, judgments, and actions formed by their specific culture. In this way, therefore, to understand an organization necessitates understanding its culture. Organization culture -- the premise of the cultural school -- is, oftentimes, understood as collective cognition since a deeply rooted culture produces closely interwoven interpretations and activities.

Content and Process.

Culture is ineradicably part of the individual's makeup. His or her perspective on the world is shaped by this culture, and since organizations are a collection of individual…...

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Rieger, F. 1987. 'The influence of national culture on organizational structure…' Dissertation, McGill Univ., Montreal.

Roth, K. & Ricks, D.A. (1994). 'Goal configuration in a global society context.' Strategic Management Journal, 15, 103-140.

Wright, J.P. 1979. On a Clear Day you can see General Motors. Wright Enterprises: MI.

But most important, Geert Hofstede will give you the 'edge of understanding' which translates to more successful results" (Geert Hofstede's Website, 2003).
If Steven Kafka conducted an analysis of the Czech market through the lens of cultural features, there is an increased likelihood for the results to indicate major discrepancies. This should not however disappoint him, as different does not implicitly mean worse.

A d) in its desire to adhere to the great economic powers of the globe, driven by its sense of innovation and its adaptability to the forces in the macro and micro environments, the Czech epublic has managed to remove most of its trade barriers. These measures were due mostly to its adherence to the European Union and other international trade organizations. "The Czech market has no trade barriers to food and agricultural product imports, except for the usual import duties and tariff rate quotas permitted under the…...

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References

Briffett, C., August 28, 2008, Observing the Czech Republic through the U.S. Lens, Czech Business Weekly

Fennesz-Berka, a., November 1996, Czech Republic and Slovenia Offer Opportunities for U.S. Consumer Foods, AgExporter

2007, Differences between the Czech Republic and the U.S., Associated Content

  accessed on September 9, 2008http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/392236/differences_between_the_czech_republic.html?page=2&cat=16last 

Before Anglos came to dominate the land, Cabeza de Baca portrays a kind of paradise-like environment, where even the sheepherders were like "musicians and poets" and "the troubadours of old," and every person had a story (Cabeza de Baca 11). This has been called a method of "preserving the culture" against the dominant discourse of Anglos: Cabeza de Baca, along with other writers of her generation are portrayed as trying to "get it [their culture] right" in an effort to transcend the overwhelming discourse of the Anglo "other" (Cabeza de Baca xx). Using Hispanic phrases and names, blurring historiography and biography, and the view of the past as a kind of lost "Eden" are all aspects of the authors 'agenda' (Cabeza de Baca xx). Cabeza de Baca deliberately uses English as a way of communicating with the Anglo reader and 'setting the record straight.'
Yet while Cabeza de Baca strives…...

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Work Cited

Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola. We fed them cactus. UNM Press, 1954.

Cross Cultural Psychology
Cultural Theories

Comparing cross-cultural approaches to psychology:

An ecocultural vs. An integrated approach

The need to take into account different cultural perspectives when treating patients has become increasingly recognized within the profession of psychology. Cross-cultural psychology, in contrast to other branches of psychology, allows that the definition of what is psychologically 'normal' is often highly dependent upon one's cultural context. Two similar, but slightly different approaches to cross-cultural psychology include the ecocultural model and the integrative model.

The ecocultural model, posits "that the individual cannot be separated from his or her environmental context. People constantly exchange messages with the environment, thus transforming it and themselves" (Chapter 1 summary, n.d). Someone acculturated in a nation other than the U.S. will show different developmental features than someone acculturated in America. The United States' culture supports a particularly long adolescence, and leaving home and beginning a family is no longer the normative break between childhood…...

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References

Chapter 1 summary. (n.d). Retrieved:

http://www.ericshiraev.com/resources/Chapter+1+Summary.pdf

Trommsdorff, G. (2002). An eco-cultural and interpersonal relations approach to development over the life span. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 6 (2).1-15 Retrieved from  http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=orpc

Here are 25 essay topics related to cyberbullying:

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