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.

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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.

Should individuals (directors, employees, shareholders) bear any responsibility for the actions of a corporation? If so, to what degree?

Should individuals (directors, employees, shareholders) bear any responsibility for the actions of a corporation? If so, to what degree?

Individuals such as directors and employees, should be responsible for all the actions of a corporation because they are the ones who make all the corporate desition, and all the corporate planing.

On the other hand, Shareholders do not bear any responsibility because they are not involved in any desition made by the other companies individuals (directors, employees)

Relationship between national identity and corporate culture

"The products "Colombia es Pasion" are part of a competitive government strategy that wants to close the gap between the perception and the reality of the image that Colombia has around the world." http://www.colombiaespasion.com/index.php/es/tienda-colombia-es-pasion.html

The relationship between the corporate culture and the national identity consists basically in the adoption of some costumes and behaviors by different corporations in order to participate of a national strategy.

An example of this situation would be the adoption of some companies of the "Colombia es pasion" as part of the advertisement placed in their products.

Deffinitions of culture

When you gather different words such as religion, communication, belives, special days, language, and more, you are basically talking about one magnifincant word called CULTURE.

But I wonder what the real definition of culture is?
I started searchin for different definitions and this is what I got:

• According to Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, culture is "A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culture

• The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/courses/122/module1/culture.html

• Is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior -- an abstract "mental blueprint" or "mental code.

http://www2.eou.edu/~kdahl/cultdef.html