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Corporate culture represents an aspect that interests both theorists and practitioners in the business field. The influence of organizational culture on employee behavior, on productivity and efficiency of the company…

The way training is delivered in a corporate environment has a tremendous effect on results. This study investigates the role of culture in the learning styles of adult French and American students enrolled in online training programs at an international university. Using Kolb's learning style inventory, the learning style preferences of respondents in both cultural groups will be classified as divergers, convergers, accommodators, and assimilators, reflecting their general tendencies toward learning environments as conceptualized by Kolb (1985). The assumption is that Americans prefer to learn from action-oriented methods and are more comfortable learning from activities that are not job related, such as role plays and games, than do their French counterparts who prefer to learn from job-related activities based on solid research. These preferences will then be examined in light of learners' responses to Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace questionnaire, which examines cultural tendencies towards collectivism/individualism, power orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long/short term orientation (Hofstede, 1980). The sample population will be composed of 150 American and 150 French trainees. They are all employed in multinationals and hold jobs that require them to attend corporate training and travel around the world. Conclusions will be drawn which compare French and American cultural differences in learning style preferences and the extent to which these preferences are mediated by cultural orientations as conceptualized by Hofstede (1980). Results will assist multinational corporations in understanding the role of culture in their training scenarios as they seek to provide more effective training for their increasingly cultural diverse learner populations which can provide some proof that they will be successful in using the new skills.

Hunters, as described by Merriam Webster's New Dictionary, are individuals who hunt game. In previous generations (and currently in some areas around the world) hunters were held in high esteem as the members of society…

Humans often have the ability to remake an ecosystem entirely, disturbing every aspect of it to the extent that the ecosystem can be changed so much that it is destroyed. This paper examines one ecosystem that has been significantly damaged by human behavior and then projects what future human behavior might bring to this environment. The ecosystem that I will examine is that of the Owens Valley in central California.

Society today is virtually borderless, thanks to the advent of technology. The internet and other options have made it possible to interact instantly with people from all over the world. Because of that, there are changes that have taken place in people's lives. One of those changes is in the way they eat. Where does their food come from? How did it get to their store and their table? This are the issues addressed here.

Educational experiences determine the views, which people develop regarding education. When teachers do not take the learning process as a responsibility to be passionate about, the result of educational results becomes so negative. Teachers must be keen on their actions so they may be jeopardize their ethical facilitation of the learning process. This is because students depend on the guidance of teachers during their studies. However, educational theories guide teachers on the best means of facilitating the learning process in an accommodative way. This means that there is a future for pushing education forward and making the life of students bearable in the classroom.

Economic growth has long been termed as the precursor to any society's success, and in this paper, we shall be looking at various aspects of economic growth that are directly correlated to happiness in the society, as well as those that negate this causality leading us to wonder whether all the technological progress in the world can eventually lead to happiness. There are various factors that impact happiness where geography is a consideration in the sense of the location of a country has an important part to play in terms of its cultural values, and the manner in which happiness is defined in the culture. The progress that the country has made in terms of the economic bloc it belongs to as the U.K. has being part of the EU; its history also plays an important part in how happiness is defined. (Megan, 2009) Consider that U.K. is one of the most advanced nations of the world and its economy is among the most progressed, therefore their criteria of h happiness includes towards a better, healthier environment; whereas, countries that are emerging keep economic empowerment as their premise for happiness.

The term multiculturalism can be given two broad ways of definition. In its literal meaning, multiculturalism refers to a situation where a certain culture of concern happens to be having more than two cultures in it. Multiculturalism also has a descriptive definition in which the term is defined as a situation of diversity of culture as depicted by a school, institution, organization, or any other place where members of different cultures are able to come together and coexist as a diversified community. Multiculturalism is a vast term, which carries varied and different meanings in itself as shown in this study based on the opinion of authors like Sadegh Hedayat, Tayeb Salih, and Patrick Chamoisseau.

At the core of becoming an activist educator

The purpose of this paper is to apply a learning theory to an actual educational case study and scenario. The situation must be seen from the point-of-view of the nursing student scenario.