the best blog of my class is......

Hello!!! here I am again choosing the best blog of my class, I must said before mentioning the name of mi winner that most of the blogs that I saw were great! Congratulations for everyone!!!

An now I am going to announce my winner.......TAN TAN TAN TANNNNNNNNN..........

THE WINNER IS SEBASTIAN POSADA'S BLOG!!!! I must admit that last time this blog was also my favorite, but it still being my favorite because I love the way Sebastian writes and when I read his blog every topic is so clear for me.

CONGRATULATIONS SEBAS AND I HOPE THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE DOING YOUR BEST JOB!! YOU ARE MY KING OF THE BLOGS!!

E-commerce in the muslim world

The e-commerce is a new way of doing business used by the Muslims, this new way of doing business is not as easy at it sounds, I mean, this e-commerce way of doing business must be based on the muslim principles of conducting business and it has to be legal for the Muslims; For this, they must follow the four pillars of a contract and this way it is going to be legal for them.

In their way of conducting business the faith is an important factor for them, also there are some values that are really important for a businessman, for example, an Islam businessman has to be honest, truthful and has to be very "perfect" in the business dealings, but in the case of the e-commerce, maintaining this values in the correct way is very difficult because this in this new way of doing business it is much easier to cheat, lie, and to do many other thing that are against the Islamic relives.

Europe and Colombia

First of all, before comparing Europe and Colombia, we must said something that everyone must now, this is that nowadays Europe has something that has change the European "life" for the past years, what we are talking about is the creation of the European union which involves 27 states, and also involves a new shared currency called EURO, while Colombia is just Colombia and has no unions such as this one.

First of all we must understand that a Trade Union is a labor union and that a labor union is an organization of workers that fight for a common goal. This trade unions work well depending on the importance that the state gives to them.

The European Union counts with many different trade unions, and lots of them are all about the workers rights, for example the European Trade Union Confederation which has a goal which is “to speak on behalf of the common interests of workers” *. This ETUC has an excellent advantage which is that it works directly with the European Presidency, Council, Commission and Parliament which means that the workers can have leverage power because they get to negotiate directly with those that have the power to change things.

On the other hand we have Colombia which also has different trade unions which have different goals

(each trade union has its own goal), this trade unions work really well as in Europe, but there is a huge

difference which is that in Europe unions are subscribe a confederation that takes common interests to certain governmental institution, but in Colombia unions are not subscribe to such confederation. So here is where the difference is, but we can say that both, Europe and Colombia care about its workers, and implemented some trades for keeping their rights.

*European Trade Union Confederation. “Our aims” [Internet] Retrieved from: http://www.etuc.org/r/2 [Accessed 23 April 2010]

THE BOBs -blog award

Wow! I think that all the blogs that I visited in this page were excellent!!! it is very difficult to mention just one blog that I most liked, but I have to confess that I had to reread all the blogs again to analyze and select the blog that I most liked, so here it comes...........................THE BLOG THAT COULD BE CALLED "THE WINNER BLOG" IS CALLED................."CERDOS Y CERDAS"!!! http://www.cerdosycerdas.net/.

I really loved this blog because first of all I think that it has a funny and creative name, and also because it is about the human conduct, it has reflections about it, so I found this blog really good and interesting! I hope you can visit it and enjoy the topic as much as I did.

Colombian salesperson

Taking into account the variables that the document talks about the salesperson, I am going to describe the Colombian salesperson:

In the aspect of Hofstede, Colombia has low individualism, because almost all the colombian people like to work in groups; the colombian salesperson respect the authority-hierarchy of the company.
Colombia has a high power distance.

As and example of this 2 aspects mention before, we can imagin one thing that is really common in the colombian companies, this is a manager of a company giving some work or an assigment to an employee, this employee would do inmediately its work without questioning the manager or asking anything, causing as a consecuence the lack of information to the employee and the high possibility to the employee to make a mistake.

AND THE WINNER OF THE BEST BLOG IS.............

SEBASTIAN POSADA!!!!!!

I liked all the blogs that I visited, but the one that I most liked was Sebastian Posada's blog because it is really interesting and it is good to see it because it has music and good images!

CONGRATULATIONS SEBASTIAN POSADA, I LOVED YOUR BLOG!!!!!

THE ALLIGATOR RIVER STORY,

Uma Sekaran and W.C. Coscarelli

From 1 to 5 (1 the less offensive and 5 the most).

CHARACTERS:

Simbad: 5

Abigail: 4

Gregory: 3

Slug: 2

Ivan: 1

I chose Ivan and Slug as the ones with less questionable attitudes because they did not have so many offensives attitudes such as Simbad, Abigail and Gregory did have.

Simbad did an inmoral proposal to Abigail and she accepted, this is why I think that they have questionable acctitudes, and Gregory had questionable attitudes because if he really loved Abigail, then he shouldn't left her or rejected her so easily.