august 25th

August 25th

A manager have power inside the organization, but they can use that power in a succeful way or they can destroy the organization. Sometimes they can be seen as heroes inside the organization, they are heroes if they are wise and for many people they are never wrong, they can also be seen as immortals that can’t be touch inside the organization, there is also a sexy manager (for their money, status and success). A manager is in charge of controlling most of the movements inside the organization including permissions, extensions. But nowadays these perceptions are changing because organizations are becoming molecular.
Reflection: what is a manager in the modern organization?
Today everything is moving so fast globalization and the interaction of cultures have change the way the world moves and develops. One step back means you’re lost, many opportunities are presented but at the same time a high level of competition causes difficulties and higher challenges that you must face in order to success. The manager of today must be open mind, open to changes and new ideas must accept easily other cultures and also have the capacity to adapt. A manager of today must be a leader in every single aspect; he must represent the whole organization and have the capacity to confront all problems in the best way, not only for his own good, but for all members of the organization. A manager of today is not afraid of risks or challenges.
Presentations
1. Brazil:

At the brazil´s presentation they present the country characteristics and then they continue with the characteristics of a manager that where similar to the ones we saw at class. Then they explain the four more talk in management styles books: democratic, autocratic, and consultative and laissez faire. And then about the three management styles: participatory, team work, directing style. Then they talk about organizational culture and it different definition and characteristics especially at Brazil. And finally they gave us the tips and behaviors we must take into account when negotiating with a Brazilian. Some interesting tips where:
• The legal rules governing business in Brazil are basically laid down in federal legislation.
• However, the Constitution allows the Federal Government, the States and the Federal District to currently legislate on certain matters related to business activities.
• The Brazilian legal tender is the Real. Foreign investors must translate their foreign currency into Brazilian currency
• Brazilians find the habit of itemizing a bill for each to pay the exact amount petty
• Handshakes are often prolonged and it may be accompanied by a hug.
• Brazilian refers to business colleagues by their first names.
• Brazilians stand very close while speaking and do not apologize for bumping or brushing against another person.
• While speaking, Brazilians maintain steady eye contact.
• Brazilians are recognized as "poly-chronics" because they are described as late arrivers, allowed greater flexibility in defining early and late.

After the presentation of Brazil they present Chile about the change and organizations in that country they talk about the characteristics of a manager and then about the types of change, principles and importance, the approach and advantages or disadvantages of what it brings. They continue talking about organizational culture of Chile and as brazils presentation was really complete they include everything about a Chilean company a Chilean worker and excellent tips and characteristics we must take into account when doing business with Chileans

Bibliography: Brazil and Chile’s power point presentation

BRAZIL: PICTURE AVAILABLE IN:http://edicion4.com.ar/e4blog/?p=590

MANAGER: PICTURE AVAILABLE:http://www.fairsoft.com/id2.html

CHILE: PICT AVAILABLE IN: http://www.theclinic.cl/2010/03/03/%C2%BFcomo-ayudar-a-chile/

ag 11.... blog

CORPORATE CULTURAL DIVERSITY

On the class august 11th, we define cultural diversity as the multiplicity and interaction of the cultures that coexist and participate in the cultural identity of the company. The culture depends on the values, traditions, customs that the culture implies. We discussed hard and polemic problms as bull runnings, and I obviously gave my opinion against it and in which ways it affect my, and how I hate it and I told it was against my moral and ethic beliefs, but I respect the people that like it, as the same way I respect other cultural beliefs. Even though I think of them as inmorals and without many values. After that we define polarization that it is a propention to think in a way that could be opposite to another. From its start, any strong cultural manifestation leads to an initial polarization; therefore it will bring preferential or discriminatory treatment.
Another definition we learned was the cultural added value; that is an extra or a plus value that is given to a product service and in this case a culture and it:
• Exceeds the market value
• These products are not only conusming product

The class ended with a video that clearly defines diversity, with de differences between commercial ads. And we analyze and difine Diversity appreciation that is based on respecting and enjoying the wide range of cultural and individual differences, it seeks to use the maximum pote.
After that, in order to understand these concepts we made a class activity that consist on analyze a group of people at their lunch time. My group and I, analyzed a really special and different group, they look like musicians not only because they where singing and had some drum sticks but also their appereance. We analyze them for 20 minutes and was really fun and interesting to understand how in one same cultue and specially in the same university can exist such diversity. When we return to the classroom all the class share their analisis and everybody seems to enjoy the activity.

PICTURE AVAILABLE AT: http://www.benetton.com/portal/web/guest/home

august 4th

Organizational culture.
On the class of august 4th we observe and analyze not only the culture in general but organizational cultural within all its characteristics and impacts in our society.First we start defining cultures as “a compound of habits, costums, behavior and many different ways to interact in order to have and identity”. In the world there are different cultures which interact within each other and nowadays international relations are one of the most important steps that a culture must have in order to participate and integrate with the world. The differences in cultures could be notorious and change a lot but this fact doesn’t make it better or worse. And acceptance and comprehension are essential. The generation of a culture is compound by the philosophy and founder that are the head and creators, then comes the selection of criteria that is basically what makes the difference between all cultures and define their specific beliefs and actions which is divided in top management and socialization that creates and follow some traditions, costumes, beliefs and ideas that finally form the organizational culture. All questions are bound to each other and differentiate each culture with another and give us a position and reflects who we are, what we do and why?
The subjective vision of the organizational culture can be seen by 5 different pints that gives us the right answers that better describes the culture.
1) Shared of assumptions: what we think? And all our actions are reflected on what we think
2) Shared values: what do we believe? Our beliefs are the base of the culture we belong to, that’s why it differentiate us between others and is what we follow
3) Shared meanings: how to interpret things? You can understand and have a different vision depending on the interpretation you give it, some things are just what it is but the way you saw it, is what makes the big difference.
4) Shared understandings: how we do things here? How we act? And why?
5) Shared corporate image: in which way are we seen? How are we perceived? Which is our position?

Organizational cultures are recognizing with some specific characteristics such as:
1) Members identity
2) Emphasis on group not people
3) Indirect focus on people
4) Integration of units: units work in a corporate and integrated manner
5) Control: a compact of clear and low impact.
6) Risk tolerance: permissiveness with employees- different according to the job
7) Reward criteria: salaries, benefits….
8) Emphasis ends or to means: the company focus its goals, or on its techniques or processes: everyone has a price
9) Open system approach: degree the organization interacts with the outside.

Analyzing and deeply looking to all its characteristics and the definition of a culture, we can clearly understand what a culture means to individual and gives the identity but always as a group, interacting and acting in a common way that will have impact among each member in the culture.

PICTURE AVAILABLE AT: http://dietraumevonsophie.com/



Evolution and effects of coorporatiom (documentary)

Years ago coorporation was saw as an insignificant institution, but this whole idea has change and nowadays coorporation is the dominant institution, which represents power and wealth in our society. At the beginning the role that the coorporation plays was as an assotiation of people who wants to perform an specific activity or objective and was created as a gift from people in order to help the public trust and so lawyers ask for coorporations to be called as a legal person who can interact within society activities as purchase, sale for example and also look for their rights.
Today coorporations are known as really powerfull monsters which can control the world and so their logo that is compare with an eagle because are competitive, magestic and have a great eye. Coorporations try to take over the world, and for them wealth and power is never enough. Coorporations have common purposes in which a group of people work together in order to obtain a final obejective that at the end will return profits for them.
They can be describe as really ambitius institutions, that sometimes doesn’t care about anything or anyone in order to obtain their objective. Even though individuals are the ones that work in the coorporation they work as a group and sometimes the coorporations have no moral conscius, and everything in matters of power is a difficulty for any common desition or action. There is a factor needed to be mentioned and is externality, which is the effect of a transaction. Each coorporation is marked by a different personality that can be diagnose, but this externality can be really harmfull and bought negative effects as harm to employees, the explotation of third world economy, effects on health and more. Comparing coorporation with the characteristics of a psycopath, they are really common between them.

Nowadys with all enviromental themes, this is a more sensible topic which can really affect our society and even though many of these coorporations have to pay for their actions, most of them are creating wealth to destroy not only the nature but also all species that are part of the world and today we are assuming the consequences as global warming.




bibliography:
http://www.gvsu.edu/sustainability/get-involved-students-209.htm
http://www.masternewmedia.org/why-knowledge-sharing-is-the-future-of-organizations/