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Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Definition:

Power distance is the term used for nations that have an expected gap in power among citizens, which are not disputed by the citizens, but accepted as part of the societal reality.

Summary:

When examining the nations of Bhutan, Russia, Venezuela, and Japan one can clearly see that a high degree of power distance exists in both Bhutan, who scored 94 and Russia, who scored 93. Venezuela had a fairly high power distance of 81. Japan scored the lowest on in comparison to the other countries at just 54. Definition: Individualism is ...

Psychological testing was developed to examine the cognitive and behavioral aspects of a patient. A variety of tests have been created to evaluate the individual to determine either the diagnosis of the individual or simply to attain an assessment or evaluation of the individual. Each test discussed below can provide advantages to the forensic setting. The validity and reliability of these tests have been extensively evaluated and are discussed. 1. Mental Status Exam The Mental Status Exam (“MSE”) is used to evaluate a patient’s mental functions and behaviors. The MSE was created as a tool for clinical psychologists ...

Introduction

Personality checks, projective approaches in analysis, and an indulgent of measures of Personality, welfares, and authorities are all included in the measures of emotional state and interactive operating. Personality is defined as the relating of structures and personal pleasures that divulge to the distinctiveness of an individual. A personality test is used to measure a person's character. These apparatuses are each objective which means that the results are sealed to responsiveness.

Types of Objective Personality Traits

There are two principle types of actual personality qualities: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Myers-Briggs. The MMPI is jagged on character feature and psychopathology. The assessment ...

Studying abroad, in a foreign country is always an exciting and scintillating experience. Yet there are a few ‘hurdles’ standing in the way of international students when it comes to gaining admission into a good university abroad. These are the placement tests required to prove one’s aptitude and capability in order to get admission into any program in the chosen university. Many countries all around the globe require applicants to appear for placement tests before they can get admission into them. The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and many other countries with some of the top ...

Briefing Paper 1

a.) The “act of state doctrine” provides that a court in the United States, cannot pass judgement on the actions of a foreign government taken within their own country or territory that it has jurisdiction over (Cheeseman, 2012). In essence, the doctrine bars U.S. courts from interfering in the domestic policy actions of another government in their own country. b.) Under a communist theory of the world, the government of Cuba did act ethically when it appropriately the Glens’ property. From an American perspective, the expropriation was not only ethically questionable but most likely illegal. Club Med, under the ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

There are two tests that have been used over time to analyze and test an individual’s psychopathology and characteristics. The first test is called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The second test is known as the Rorschach Inkblot Test and was designed to assess and analyze thought process disorder. Both of these types of psychological testing have had different views and opinions. There has been great praise in the resourcefulness of these tests in many findings. In contrast to the positive reviews, there have been negative reviews as well. The findings of these tests have been controversial ...

Significance of Accounts Receivable Practice

The most primary element for the success of a business is the way in which the systems of accounts receivable management, collections and billing are maintained. Often, this type of management collectively is known as the system of collections management. The main key to the success of this system is to manage it diligently. It is because having large amount of customers is not enough to run a successful business; revenue needs to be collected from these customers (Clarke, 2016). There are a number of reasons for a business setting up the accounts receivable in a given organization. When ...

Abstract

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Test is used by the psychologists to determine the extent of depression among the patients so that adequate interventions and treatments can be incorporated to hinder the extent of depression. There are certain errors that can effect the test specially when respondents fail to understand the questions and are under influence of drugs or alcohol, due to which their responses do not remain valid to draw conclusions. The errors during the manual calculation of scores can lead to false interpretation whereas the prevalence of construct validity is also required to incorporate the consistent level ...

Some can touch the ball with their hands while some cannot. Some can get yellow cards while others can get red. Some always run and are never involved; others cannot cross the line and only wave their flags. What are these words about? Obviously, they are about a wonderful game of soccer. It is truly the Earth's national game. It gathers many millions before their televisions or computers and gets the stadiums full to the rim. It leaves calm very few and can make the most modest and polite people rage and burst the emotions in their support for ...

This research is used to investigate the efficiency levels in the banking sectors in various Arabian countries, while considering the role of economic development and different financial reforms taking place, and how these reforms impact the banking industry performance and efficiency (Al-Jarrah, 2007). The comparison of these financial institutions to American or western culture nations shows how these reforms can help or cripple banking industries around the world. Efficiency estimation techniques can be categorized into two groups including parametric and nonparametric methods. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an example of a nonparametric method of analysis, which is believed to ...

Exploring High Self-Esteem and Narcissism as Contributors of Aggressive Tendencies: an Argument against the Low Self-Esteem Hypothesis

Literature Review Introduction There are relevant themes in the current literature that relate to the argument presented in this position paper. Many of these themes have focused on supporting the high self-esteem hypothesis, which holds that highly favorable self-appraisals cause aggression and make people more prone to acts of aggression. The results and findings of several research studies conducted with the purpose of supporting the so called high self-esteem hypothesis have actually been successful in providing evidence in favor of the view that it is actually high levels of self-esteem that increase an individual’s proneness to aggressive tendencies ( ...

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Personality is considered as a combination of all the attributes characterizing a specific individual. These attributes may include temperamental, behavioural, mental, and emotional characteristics. A lot of psychological experts started showing increased interest in the study of personality during the past several decades, and presented many theories on personality. Researches on personality and constant evaluation as well as review of emerging theories and models have helped in further understanding of personality. Dispositional and evolutionary or biological personality theories are among some of the most important theories. These theories are different from many other personality theories in ...

In soccer, we have many skills applied in the field. However, the most fundamental soccer skill every player should learn is kicking the ball with both feet. I know this might be difficult for many soccer players, but it is a paramount soccer skill one can possess. When a soccer player learns how to use both feet in kicking the ball while playing, he/she can have the best passing and shooting moves. This is because the ball comes in different directions and if a player works with only one foot, missing the ball will be easy. This is because, ...

I have chosen the following players who were drafted in 2014 NFL draft;

He is an American footballer for the Houston Texas of the Nation Football League. Jadeveon played college football at South Carolina after graduating from South Pointe high school in South Carolina. He set South Carolina school records in 2012 in loss tackles of 23.5 and quarterback sacks of 13.0 as he earned defensive playing ability of the years honor at the southeastern meeting. He is described as one of the rare sports changers on defense (Ducking et al. 681). In 2008, south point had 31 graduates. ...

Overall score on the OTELA: _____90________

Reading Passage chosen: _____Where The Wild Things Are______________________ Literal Questions: 1) What grew in Marx’s room? 2) What hung from his bedroom ceiling? 3) What did Marx sail on in his private boat?

Interpretive Questions: 1) Why did Max give up being king of where the wild things are?

2) How did he tame such wild things? 3) What can be inferred from the story? Purpose statement: What do you plan to say for the Introduction of the passage? (This should give the student an idea of what the passage is about and give a general purpose for reading. Be careful not to give away too much information. For example, for the passage on “ ...

Many games are played for fun. Sometimes game are played for more than that. They are played for bragging rights, to prove a point, to achieve personal best records, or beat another’s best record. Within these modern times, individuals who reside in industrialized countries play games for amusement, entertainment, or money. Rarely are games played as a matter of life or death. However, there are games that are played as matters of life or death. Depending on the prize, the winner chooses his or her spouse, where they will live, the car they will drive, the clothes they ...

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} The present paper reviews three different articles that are focused on teaching and learning concepts. The first article is based on fixed versus growth mindset which is written by Popova (2014). In this article, the author discussed the fundamental belief that is most common among people. Most of the people believe that the character, intelligence and creativity are the hereditary blessed traits that cannot be changed. These people are classified as fixed mindset individuals who believe that striving for success is worthless and it better to avoid ...

Introduction

Examinations are an essential form of assessment utilized in monitoring a student’s progress. The feedback generated from these evaluations give the teachers, guardians and any other concerned party an overview of the student’s progress in the academic field. Proper interventions are made as per the grades scored by individual students. With this in mind, it is imperative to acknowledge the fact that grades are an influential aspect of the learning process as they give an overview of the student’s academic progress. However, they do not measure the overall student’s intelligence. As such, assumptions should not ...

Personality tests have been used for a long period to evaluate the psychological makeup of individuals. The validity and reliability of the various personality tests has been the subject of protracted debates especially along the lines of objective and projective tests. Objective tests have been thought to be more reliable than projective ones (Gregory, 2007). Overall, personality tests have been criticized because the individual undertaking them can give ambiguous generalizations that could apply to any person. MMPI and the Rorschach Inkblot Technique are among the most prominent personality tests.

Comparison and Contrast

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test is a self-report ...

Introduction

The increasing convergence of global businesses across geographies has made human capital and service exchanges commonplace. By moving across physical and virtual (i.e. web) boundaries, cross-cultural encounters become increasingly a necessary requirement for effective work experiences locally and globally. This emphasis on cross-cultural competence in current business ecosystem is made more necessary in financial service industry. Indeed, of all cross-border services, financial activities are probably one most sensitive to global influence. Notably, by exchanging services via banking-based and non-banking financial systems, influence of not only provided services but also of people offering such services is well embedded in day-to-day ...

John swales, a professor of linguistics defines the term “discourse community” in such a particular way. He believes that a discourse community is any group of people who share a set of goals and have come up with different ways of communicating about the said goals. These individuals generally use communication in order to achieve their goals. They usually have some unique forms of communication. Throughout the said communications, some particular lexis is used in description of anything in the discourse community. According to swales, the discourse communities have various genres, and even comprise of some reasonable ration of ...

Revising for an exam is no undemanding task, especially if you do not have the pertinent materials required. It can be quite hectic especially if you do not like the topic or subject you are revising on. Poetry is one such subject that many students find difficult understanding. It can prove to be quite a challenge especially if you do not understand the various important aspects of poetry to revise on, such as mood, tone, alliteration, and theme (Childs, 15). A wise student therefore has to come up with smart study methods to ensure that they understand the content of a ...

Risk is inherent in all characteristics of a commercial procedure; equally, for banks and financial organizations, credit risk is a necessary issue that requires handling. Credit risk is the likelihood that a borrower will fall short in meeting his or her responsibilities in conformity with contracted terms. Credit risk, consequently, occurs from the bank’s transactions with or loaning to business, persons, and other financial establishments. This area of credit evaluation and measurement is enormous and every new account fronts new tests. When an application is obtain, what does a financier searches for in it? Answer to this is not merely comprehensive but ...

The VARK test has been analyzed and criticized by several people and in several publications, for example:

In August 2009 Walter Leite(Research and Evaluation Methodology program, University of Florida), Marilla Svinicki(University of Texas at Austin) and Yuying Shi also from the University of Florida conducted a test to examine the validity of the scores of the VARK. They mainly focused on the dimentionality of the learning style inventory associated with VARK. From the study it was found that there was preliminary support for the validity of the VARK scores.

There were however concerns about the scoring algorithm and item wording. As a result therefore, it was established that caution needed to be exercised whenever VARK was ...

To Whom It May Concern, Greetings! It has come to my attention that the community’s little league baseball commission is considering some changes in terms of their scoring policies concerning all games which are to be held. I understand that the commission aims to eliminate scoring based on runs, and the overall concept of winning and losing.

Rest assured that I do deeply understand the concern of the committee, wanting equality in the field, bringing no concept of losing more than anything. However, I do disagree on the matter. I believe that the entire purpose of holding such ...