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Reflection is an active process of witnessing one's own experience in order to take a better look at it, sometimes briefly, but frequently to explore it in greater depth. This can be done in the middle of an activity or as an activity in itself. The key to reflection is learning how to take a viewpoint on one's own actions and experience, in other words, to look at that experience rather than just living it.

The following ages focus on analyzing the innovation process in Thailand. The Introduction reveals the points of view that this paper intends to address. This is followed by a section that describes important issues about the business environment in Thailand, in order to understand the factors that affect companies' activity in this country. The Innovation process in Thailand presents some of the most important characteristics of the Thai innovation process. The Recommendations section describes important factors that companies that want to invest in the Thai innovation process must take into consideration. The Conclusions section presents some of the most important issues addressed by the paper.

This paper presents a research proposal which have been prepared for the future research on the economic implications of oil discovery in Ghana. It starts with a brief introduction to the whole case scenario by introducing Ghana and its recent oil discovery and proceeds by explaining the research questions and highlighting the major research objectives. The major part of the paper consists of a comprehensive literature review which has been done to discuss the aforementioned business issue in the light of most recent articles, news, and research publications. The literature review completely focuses on discussing the economic implications of this oil discovery for Ghana from both positive and negative perspective.

Globalization is one of the most discussed issues in the present, with people from around the world being both supportive towards it and criticizing the concept. Those supporting it normally claim that it should be…

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The purpose of this study was four-fold: (a) to investigate productivity within the relationship banking department of Al Rajhi Bank in order to identify opportunities for improvement; (b) to generate, research and evaluate possible ways to improve productivity within the relationship banking department; (c) to draw conclusions from the findings and make recommendations taking account of the overall financial, legal, environmental and human resource implications for this banking organisation; and (d) to prepare proper plans for implementing the recommendations for management approval.

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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.

A supermarket chain based in the United Kingdom is considering expansion to Malaysia. There are several factors to consider before the chain determines that expanding their stores to this market is an effective decision.