In the world we live in there are multiple taboos. Depending on your culture, religion and beliefs many strange and bizarre things are completely normal to some people and even animals throughout the world. Taboos are what people find to be strange and unusual practices or what unique things people may do or eat in different parts of the world. Different cultures would consider strange […]

Corporate culture is the idea that senior managers within an organisation must strive to develop a sense of belonging and purpose within the organisation. Barnard (1938) contrasted this on Durkheim’s anomie. Watson (2008 p. 46) in relation to corporate culture, suggests that a key weakness with Durkheim’s work is that it has a tendency to over-emphasise integration and consensus both within societies and within work […]

As the state of West Bengal is preparing to welcome their holy deity, amidst the plethora of arrangements one is aware of the fact that Kolkata is one of the cities which is in dire need for some startup love and support. The state of West Bengal which houses worthy institutes like the NIIT and IIM, however has never emerged as the top go-to city for entrepreneurship. […]

So often when we think of a company’s strategy, organizational culture is the missing puzzle piece. Instead, attention is focused on customers, competitors, and financial resources. The neglect of organizational culture is unfortunate since leaders are responsible for so many other demands, but an understanding of the organization’s culture and its potential for enabling a positive deviant strategy is important. Organizational culture is the shared […]

The film “Cultural Genocide” presented Asa Hilliard III, an African American professor of educational psychology, who focused on the particularities of genocide, homicide and suicide. According to Hilliard, he recalls genocide as any one of the following acts with the attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, religious or racial group; few examples include killing members of a group, causing bodily harm and forcibly transferring children […]

Are doctors, good managers? Are they even trained at all to be managers? These are poignant questions that have always arisen from the dichotomy that seems to exist between the arts of medicine for which a doctor is trained and the acts of management to which he is constantly exposed to within the hospital walls. Until a doctor actually seat down to ask the question […]

Greek Culture VS. Roman Culture Gabraille Driscol American InterContinental University HUMA215-1204D Ms. Cheryl Lemus Abstract Many people are unaware of just how alike the Romans and the Greeks are. They have many of the same cultures because they adapted them from each other. From modern art to the gods and goddesses. Everything that the Greek have the Romans also has. Yes there are a few […]

All traditional cultures are susceptible to change due to a variety of factors that encourage the acceptance of new tools and ideas (O’Neil 1). Some of these factors include changes in the environment, contact or interaction between societies, and other forces at work within a community. Nevertheless, Haviland, Prins, McBride and Walrath (363) argue that culture change is mostly unplanned or unforeseen; hence, all changes […]

Its mission is to provide accessible and quality healthcare services and drug rehabilitation services and to strengthen the mechanisms for protecting the rights of the children, women, and errors with disabilities of the Maldives. Ministry of Health’s vision is to make the Maldives a good model society of socially protected and healthy individuals who are aware, who value their family ties and live a healthy […]

My cultural interview was with a coworker, 28 years of age and of Hipic descent. While conducting the interview I learned a lot about the Hipic culture. Many Hipics like to be called Latino (a). Some do not like to be referred to as Mexican when they are from other countries other than Mexico. Hipics also use slang within their culture just like African Americans. […]