Corporation

hello, today I am going to analyze the topic of corporation, I will answer if they do a good or a bad job and if they are exploited or obliged people to work and achieve objectives almost impossible to reach, based on a movie that we already watched in class and my knowledge that I obtain during the semester; remember that is my point of view.

I have to answer two question and I have four choices:

1. Should corporations be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals? Where should the line be drawn?

The movie showed us all “bad” things that the corporation makes only to get their objectives and have higher incomes. It movie showed that corporations does not have feelings because they do not care about people, corporations cheat on people insomuch they show to the customers as the best of the world and pureness and clearness corps., they do not have global norms that regulates them for example if they made a mistake and they do not have durable relations and the safety of the other because while they came to a country the stay until they begin to lose money or perhaps if they have to pay higher salaries or invest more money social security for their employees.

I think that corporation must be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals, insomuch there is no reason for not do it, if corporation made a mistake he has to pay the cost does not matter if the cost is legal or moral, even the cost must to pay just for the people who did the mistake, those action will be taken by the corporation, if they did it in name of the corp.; and company will take care of them by tickets, or get those people fired and out of the corporation, if those people have personal reasons or just for corrupt to earn a few money and knowing the risks, the government will take care about them(people that basically are involved) and judge as people because it is not corporation’s fault and corporation has to take over mistakes he does for example if corp. does not investigate before and could be his fault to does not see it but the legal issues will are from employees and corporation both as individuals.

2. How can we ensure corporations are held accountable for their actions?

Corporations always have to pay for those things that they made wrong, we are sure that it is, for example when BP had the problem with the petrol that split out in the ocean killing many animals, sea plants, hitting the economy of people that work there, we see that they have to pay for that, they fired their president, they have to fixed the damage and clean the ocean, also have to pay tickets for the damage that they did to the environment and compensate people who work in there like fishermen or people who work in tourism.

If they come to other countries to reduce costs and have “infrahuman” conditions they do not do out the law, they have to accomplish it because if they do not they will have legal problems, if people does not agree with some conditions that the corporation may have it very easy, don’t work there! Go out and get another job. Corporation never obligated people to work there, at the beginning they show you some goals that you have to achieve, you have the option to be agree or disagree, if you are disagree it is easy, don’t work there! Go out and get another job. If you are agree you cannot call it as the corporation obligated you to work there. When corporation makes a mistake they have to pay for that, the government of each country has the obligation to investigate and promote laws to take care of employees.

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Migrant

hello, for this week I studied a new topic, migration, after searched and read on the IOM I am going to explain to you what IOM do to improve conditions of women migrant workers.

First, IOM means international organization for migration; it is a migration agency who works looking for benefits for migrants and society, also migration is people who move from some place to another one and survive in the new place.

Basically the problem that I do care about it today is the women migrant workers, if you go to another country and start a new life could be for two reasons; first you are successful and you move because you get a new job does not matter if you are man or woman, second is that you have to move because you have different problems in your home country does not care if the problems are social, economy or security insomuch there are a lot of methods for why another country can invite you to migrant there, for example if you have security problems you have to borrow asylum.

If you are a successful person, let’s talk about women, you have some advantage that the a woman with low incomes cannot have, for example the successful woman comes to the new country and has purchase power, and get a job where she will work probably in a job that she likes and a job for was she had to studied before, the second woman has the issue that she will work not in a job that she picks or what she used to studied before, usually she has to work in something that she did not do before, like taking care of babies or cleaner for example so she is more exposed than the successful woman to be exploited by a company, maybe she has to work more than she´s allow to do or she maybe does not have social security and working in infrahuman conditions.

IOM was created to investigate, study how these migration issues work, and the results was that the women are more exposed than men, also IOM want to care about human rights, IOM look for everybody respects people who are migrants and protect them for be exploited and then reach that every migrant can be feel safe in whatever country where they are, not exposed to big companies that the only thing that they look for is to get more money. The question is IOM have achieve its objectives? Every migrant women worker feel safe does not matter the country she is? I think no.




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UBUNTU

hello, today I am going to show you a point of view which is how cross-cultural manager has to work to get benefits for his organisation or employees based in other cultures or philosophies, today Ubuntu philosophy.

Ubuntu is a humanist philosophy that was born in Africa, basically is an ethic philosophy as well focusing on people’s allegiances and relation with each other; this philosophy produce in people characteristics such as harmony and hospitality also spirit of caring and community, respect and responsiveness with everybody.

The cross-cultural manager’s job is to meet, interact, understand and deal with people from a different culture, all this is just because people came from different places in the world therefore they have their own cultural issues, so the cross-cultural manager have to handle and deal with it insomuch what is good for one culture could not be good for another culture, for example, the Muslims can got married with more than one wife within the marriage and for Catholicism is not good because you have to get married with just one wife, you can get divorced but you cannot have two or more wives at the time.

At the time a cross-cultural manager would like to be aware of the ubuntu philosophy and use this moving forward to reach benefits and organization and employees; he has to analyze how people from ubuntu philosophy interact with each other and what they like and what they dislike, he must see it and look forward to implement the best that they do, just an example could be to improve the caring spirit and community in his organization then achieve a better ambiance of work.
The cross-cultural manager has to be very careful being as he has to take in count that he cannot impose new rules additionally from other culture and maybe the employees do not see as the most appropriate path to improve the ambiance or the performance.

Also the manager has to take care how African people, who promoted the ubuntu philosophy, reach their goals and look for being day by day better people always under the rules that they did before, although is not easy for the cross-cultural manager to mimic this philosophy into a organization perhaps he has to make a good plan to introduce a new philosophy and that his employees listen it and practice it.

At the end, he must to study how they interact and how the behave with each other and with other people that do not follow ubuntu, how the leader interact with them and how he leads under pressure or what he does to be still promoting this philosophy; all that cross cultural manager has to do is to analyze and study and at the end make conclusions about these factors also he has to think how he will use all of this information to get a better organization and also promote a better ambiance of work between his employees always thinking in their walfare.



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Mate´s blogs

I found some blogs that in my opinion are very interesting not just for read also because in each blog you learn something new.

the blogs that i visited was:

Sebastian Gallon
http://sgallone.blogspot.com/

Valentina Valencia
http://www.vvalenc5.blogspot.com/

Maria Camila Osorio
http://organizationsandculturescourse.blogspot.com

Juliana Martinez
http://oyceafit.blogspot.com/

John Henry Ciro
http://johnhenryorganizationsandcultures.blogspot.com/

METAPHOR

Hello classmates,

The topic for today is to show a creative metaphor that we can use for an organization and try to internationalize; I will start this task with a short definition of why metaphor is, we can define it as an analogy between two objects or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of metaphorical word in place of some other word, for example “love is a rose”.

Organizations have to do a good marketing if they want to be stronger and bigger, for that reason they usually make a great publicity and then is when the metaphor can start to play as a aider to have a stronger advantage insomuch as you will introduce a product with a slogan that people could remember always and of course associated with the product.

If an organization want to internationalize a product they have to be very aggressive in the campaign to push the product in the foreign market, I was looking for on the website for a while until I finally found a product that couldn’t be better to use to make an example, the product is a coffee soft drink (gaseosa de café).

Its name is Caffem Cola, and it is produce by a local company in Armenia, Quindio. This company calls Cafequipe, they work with derivate coffee products for example cafequipe (coffee plus arequipe) even coffee wine and a lot of products like coffee or mocha crackers.

It is important to make a coffee soft drink because it is another way to drink caffeine and is a good option for people who do not like coffe but they can taste the Caffem Cola.

I think a nice slogan that they could use to introduce the caffem cola in a foreign market, my slogan is: “caffem cola, excellent soft drink with the best of Colombia”, they can use it thanks to first they will have an excellent soft drink and also they can promote a product that is recognized around the globe as the best coffee.

This is a creative product and also a nice slogan, you can use the phrase the best of Colombia insomuch as the image of the country in the last years is coming better and now foreign people see Colombian products as a very competitive ones and not just a poor image since 90’s for example drugs, violence and murderers. Caffem Cola can show the competition of Colombian beverages in other countries and how companies in Colombia want to improve and be more competitive in the future.

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http://www.worth1000.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5033514.stm

INDIA AND CHINA

Hello,

I want to share with you some information and pictures about two countries that are today highly important because they are in the way to become important economical powers, and because their high populations they represent a huge important objective to negotiate with, for that reason Colombia is trying to increase the contact with those countries, and create deeper commercial agreements, but it difficult and will take a lot of time, because asian countries a highly different to our negotiation culture and we must learn more about their culture, history and customs to have a higher approach with them. For that reason they were the main countries during the Asian Week of the University, because they are two emergent powers

INDIA

Taj Mahal, Agra

Photograph by Apratim Saha

The Mogul emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in Agra as a tribute to his favorite wife, who died in childbirth in 1630. The white marble monument, with its sprawling gardens, took 20 years to build. A red sandstone mosque stands on one side.

Amber Palace and Jaigarh Fort, Jaipur

Photograph by Patitucci/Aurora Photos

Decorated elephants carry tourists past the Jaigarh and Amber Forts in Jaipur, Rajasthan, constructed beginning in the 15th century. The marble-and-sandstone Amber Fort has intricate carvings; the immense Jaigarh Fort once served as a center of artillery production.

Sacred Cows, Varanasi

Photograph by Mark Henley/photolibrary.com

Cows, such as these two in Varanasi, are a common sight on India’s congested streets. Hindus revere cows, believing that they offer sustenance and ask nothing in return.

Sikh Holy Book

Photograph by Charles Meacham, My Shot

Sikhs reach to touch a chest containing a copy of their holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, as it’s carried into Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, a temple in Nanded, during the 300th-anniversary celebration of the book’s consecration. Sikhs also mark the anniversaries of the passing of their religion’s gurus.

Jain Wedding, Mumbai

Photograph by Kris Pannecoucke/Aurora Photos

In Mumbai, a bride feeds the groom at a Jain wedding, which requires a series of rituals thanking deities. Some tenets of Jainism are similar to those of Hinduism, but the religion hasn’t spread far beyond India.

Henna Hands

Photograph by Petra Warner

The hands of a woman in Jaipur are covered with mehndi patterns painted with henna. Trendy in recent years, the lacework decorations are part of a 5,000-year-old tradition of creating designs to ward off evil or declare one’s happiness.

Ganesh Festival, Mumbai

Photograph by Gautam Singh/Associated Press

During the ten-day Ganesh festival in Mumbai, devotees carry a statue of the elephant-headed Hindu god into the sea. Across India, worshippers carry hundreds of the statues into rivers and lakes as well as the sea.

Avatar

According to India's culture death is only the transition to one form to another, and the next life you will live will depends on the actions that you made in your ancient life

CHINA

Great Wall

Photograph by Justin Guariglia

China’s most rural reaches retain their beauty and mystery even as the countryside and its people are touched by the rapid pace of industrialization.

Writhing like dragon tails, the Great Wall is not one structure but many. Most of what is called the Great Wall was built during the 14th-century to 17th-century Ming dynasty. The total length of the walls is unknown, though the sections built by the Ming alone would stretch from Washington, D.C., to Wichita, Kansas.

Symbol of Shanghai’s international heritage, the river-skirting Bund area has been a popular site for European and U.S. businesses since the late 19th century, when it grew into a major Asian financial center

Shanghai Highways

Photograph by Sung Ming Whang, My Shot

Shanghai's ever growing network of highways rings the city and links more than 500 cities across 22 provincial areas.

Yu Yuan Teahouses, Shanghai

Photograph by Grant Faint, Getty Images

Near the elaborate Chenghuang, or City God, Temple in Shanghai are the famous Yu Yuan Bazaar and Gardens. Teahouses line the main street, where tourists flock each morning to buy calligraphy, pearls, and antiques.

Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai

Photograph by Justin Guariglia

Combining Chinese architectural style with cutting-edge technology, the Jin Mao Tower boasts 88 stories that reach 1,380 feet (421 meters) into the booming Shanghai skyline. The 88th-floor Skywalk gives visitors a panoramic look at the city as well as a bird’s-eye view of the atrium spiraling down below them.

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http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/india-guide/

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/china-guide/