Module 2 assignment
1. Describe Ugandan cultural attributes that might affect the operations of a foreign company doing business there.
Uganda is located in the center of Africa, having a population of 25 million people. The official language is English, but many of the people speak Bantu or Nilotic languages. Two thirds of the population is Christians, split about evenly between Roman Catholics and
Anglicans, with a large number of Muslims and other various animistic religions. Some cultural attributes that could get in the way is the language. Having foreigners come into the country to work can prove difficult in communication since not everyone speaks the same language.
Ugandans have different multiple
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72) and Geocentrism “which integrates company and host-country practices as well as some entirely new ones.”(Daniel & Radenbaugh, pg. 74) Geocentrism requires companies to balance informed knowledge of their own organizational cultures with home and host. I would say that
Green is ethnocentric and Martin is polycentric. Green is ethnocentric due to the fact that he knows his company is driven by the philosophy and values of founder and current CEO,
Lawrence Lovell. He is a devoted Christian and believes strongly that business activities should embody Christian values. Green is concerned that Martins lifestyle is inconsistent with HG’s culture. He is also concerned that even though Martin’s ways are normal and legal in Uganda, they are not the practices of the U.S. based company and are considered unethical.. Green is also concerned with the impact of Martin’s handing out of tips will become public knowledge in the International World and possibly the hiring of close relatives to the government could cause more extortion. Martin is polycentric due to he has always been fascinated with Africa and its culture and studied this country in college. Martin believes in not drawing attention to oneself and has learned to respect their culture. He has always shown interest in working in Africa when he was hired and even when HG
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. explains his reasoning for coming to Birmingham. His hope was to have the religious leadership in the white community realize the “justice” of their “cause.” In order to convey his main idea, Martin Luther King Jr. uses rhetorical strategies like pathos, ethos, and logos, as well as strong diction and examples.
The diction of the text was eloquent; he uses elaborate words such as clarion, quagmire, brigands, calamitous, abdicate, and disarmament. He does to correspond with examples such as a quote from John F Kennedy, and characteristics of “Divine Comedy”. Marti’s Quote from John F. Kennedy is better to analyze; stating, “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind”. An analysis of the quote is that the experience of wisdom should tell us that war is obsolete. From my interpretation it defines a message that reveals the human emotion of comfort and praise towards peace. Martin though is trying to assess the rise of Black Nationalism and the increasing use of the slogan ‘‘Black Power’’ in the movement. The last sentence of Paragraph 9, “If modern man continues…could not imagine”, gives a representation of what will happen if we let the conception of destruction and evil cloud or minds.
The author likens the ethical standards ‘mission’ to a “neo-colonial civilizing mission” (Freidberg, 2003, p. 35) to clean up the South. In addition to infrastructure improvements previous attempts were primarily about making Africa more hygienic with large emphasis on soap industry. The whites wanted to have cheap but also clean labour. The neo-colonialism Freidberg (2003) talks about expands into other areas, such as vocational training. As the ethical standards become more cumbersome, more human resource is needed to fill compliance and record-keeping vacancies. With white expatriates being traditionally more expensive, the quest for cheap labour makes vocational training of the local black population an attractive solution. However, even though more black Zambians are given mid-management jobs, the “racial ‘glass ceiling’ in export
Martin Luther said in his letter that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere and
Uganda is a country that covers 7,108 sq mi in area and a host of 33.3 million people found in East Africa. It is bordered by Congo on the West, Kenya on the East, Tanzania and Rwanda on the south and Sudan on the North. It
One evening in jail, a young man by the name of Martin luther king jr, received a letter outlining the the concerns of eight clergymen in reference to the demonstrations taking place of which he was a clergyman to. Martin was always aware of the criticism and retaliation of other and learn to keep order with it. But for some reason, this letter struck him, and he decided he must write a response to this letter. MLK being one of the most influential people in the world today, wrote a response letter to the right clergymen highlighting the concerns of being an outsider, having untimely and unwise demonstrations, and having extreme ideas.
He believes in the core values of the company, and his leadership style reflects them throughout the store.
Martin Luther King Jr. opens his Letter From Birmingham Jail by adressing local clergyman who had written an open letter in the Birmingham Post that called the demonstrations King had led "unwise and untimely". He mentions that he rarely takes time to adress criticism of his ideaology, but that they seem like genuinely good people, however misled. He then goes on to explain his affiliations with local communities. In doing so, he refutes the idea of him being an outsider and establishes his credibility.He emphacizes that no American can be considered an outsider within America. This playes in to the ethos of his writing. He continues, stating that he is in Birmingham not just because he was invited by the previously mentioned organizations, but because there is injustice there, and injustice in one area can threaten justice in all areas.
Nwoye Struggles with his identity and it has led him to embrace a new culture, which has Basically saved him, and shows the good effects colonialism can have on people.
Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist, was born in the Deep South, surrounded by racism. His experiences with racial discrimination fuelled his desire to become active in the civil rights movement; he eventually became a driving force behind the movement through his philosophy of nonviolence, changing the course of history for African Americans. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King Jr. argues that “lukewarm acceptance is much more frustrating than
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a protester and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, greatly known for his use of nonviolent forms of demonstration. On a specific occasion, King was arrested for leading a peaceful protest as part of the Birmingham Campaign, which attempted to bring national awareness to the gruesome treatment endured by blacks. While in jail, King replies to the clergyman’s remarks of him being a foreign agitator in his “Letter from a Birmingham jail,” passionately defending the actions he took. The clergymen accused King of being an extremist, as they saw his relentless protesting and civil disobedience as a threat to a stable political and social system. In paragraphs 27-32, King attempts to persuade the
Martin uses Pathos to emotionally connect with everyone listening to the speech. Martin believed that everyone should be equal. In his speech it states “It does not say all white men, but it says all men, which includes black men. It does not say all Gentiles, but says all men, which includes Jews. It does not say all Protestants but it says all men, which includes Catholics.” This means that a person is a person no matter what color or belief. King says “we must live together as brothers or we will perish as fools.” “Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.” This two quotes mean People shouldn’t judge someone by how they look or what they believe in. If you take off the outside everyone is the same, everyone is a human and shouldn’t be judged at all people should learn to love each other and lift others up not hate and bring them down.
Human rights are known as “inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled to simply because he or she is a human being”. These rights are known to be universal and are the same to everyone living on earth. These rights are said to exist in both national and international law. The Universal Declaration of Human rights, which is supported by fifty countries across the globe, attests to this definition and backs up the idea that all people are equal and have the right to pursue happiness no matter who they are, where they are from, their skin color, age, or sex, etc. If these countries believe these things to be true, why was there not a mass intervention when
And that the Africans should learn from the Australians who faced a similar problems but got out of it when they considered themselves to be mature enough to handle and market their own writer ship.
Although successful Martin did take risks when utilizing a polycentric approach to his work, at any point his participation in various activities such as tribal rituals could have back fired due to increased pressure from an unstable government and corrupt officials talking advantage of their increased leverage to exact higher and higher prices for continued cooperation. These problems coupled with the possibility of certain actions being illegal in HGs home country directly conflicts with corporate policy. Despite these increased perils, if Martin had not undertaken this approach to business in Uganda increased delays, would certainly have occurred, local collaboration would have been decreased, expensed would have been increased due to either longer wait periods or the eventual abandonment of the project due to lack of progress.