Corporation

According every dictionary where I looked for, corporation is an institution that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

150 years ago corporation was an insignificantly institution, but nowadays it has its own base, as church and monarchy does, Corporation is todays dominant institution.

Everyone is asking what has allowed todays corporation to achieve such extraordinary power and influence over our lives and the Possible futures of the modern business corporation.


Corporation is like a family unit, people in the corporation work together for a common end, they are like Monsters trying to swallow the great quantity of profits they want, it is also a Group of individuals working together, and one of their principal objectives is winning large returns to the people who owned the business.

Corporation operates legally as an individual person. It is not a group of people it is under the law a legal person. It an buy and sell property, it can borrow money can sue and can be sued, it is A member of our society, a person than doesn't have moral conscious.

Migration-IOM

IOM stands for International Organization for Migration.
Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

With 127 member states, a further 17 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

The IOM Constitution recognizes the link between migration and economic, social and cultural development, as well as to the right of freedom of movement.

IOM Backs Training for Bangladesh's Women Migrant Workers


Posted on Friday, 07-08-2009

Bangladesh - IOM has hosted a two-day training of trainers in the capital Dhaka designed to prepare more Bangladeshi women for domestic jobs abroad.
A group of 12 trainers from government technical training centres attended the course, which was based on a standardized training manual on domestic work for migrant workers produced by IOM in Bangladesh in 2007.

The curriculum, which was developed with the government's Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), provides general guidelines for trainers and covers housekeeping, caring for children, the elderly, the sick, health and hygiene, personal and professional safety, remittances and language skills.

Currently women only account for some 4 per cent or nearly 21,000 of Bangladeshi migrant workers abroad. But many more undocumented female migrants are believed to be working in Asia and the Middle East, according to IOM Regional Representative for South Asia Rabab Fatima.

"This kind of training to improve social and professional skills, and provide internationally acceptable certification, will improve the marketability of Bangladeshi migrant workers abroad – particularly women," she says.

IOM and BMET have a long-standing collaboration on capacity building initiatives, including preparation of pre-departure materials for migrant workers and training manuals.

BMET is planning to expand training opportunities for women migrant workers throughout the country. In addition to training programmes, IOM support currently includes the upgrading of a key technical training centre in Faridpur district.



Bibliography:
IOM. http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-briefing-notes/pbnAS/cache/offonce?entryId=25848
http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/organizational-structure/migration-management-services/cache/offonce/

Merging and Acquisition

Merging, implies the reconstruction of a new social identity.
Acquisition, one company taking over controlling interest in another company.

Merging and Acquisition in Indian is growing as if there ir no tomorrow, one of the major outbond deals announced recently was by Wipro; they bought US based Infocrossing for a sum of nearly $600 million, it is a big deal but still it is not the biggest.

By this deal, it helps the Indian software firm to gain a strong fotthold with local presence, but it provides with an added advantage of resourcing. As everybody knows, US doesn't have enough visas to give and it is very difficult for Indian software companies to expand aggressivel. So the meaning of these acquisitions gives Indian companies added advantage of securing existing people from acquired company and also providing Indian people as part of intra company transfers.


According to this report in Information Week, there are lot more deals in pipeline currently, and we should see more acquisitions done by Indian outsourcing companies.

Here is an excerpt from that report:

“Indian companies are sitting on a lot of cash, $500 million to $1 billion,” said Ameet Nivsarkar, VP of research at Nasscom in an interview. Plus, “the valuation of Indian IT companies is high” compared with U.S. companies right now. “This is the right time” to do these large deals,” he said.
While big, the Wipro-InfoCrossing deal isn’t even the largest cross-border outsourcing acquisition this year. In June, Caritor — an application developer based in California, but whose 3,900 employees are predominately in India and whose founder is Indian — acquired U.S. IT services provider Keane in an $854 million deal backed by Citigroup Venture Capital.

“It’s definitely possible” that there will be more of these bigger deals, Nivsarkar said.

Bibliography.

Text: Big acquisitions by Indian software companies. http://trak.in/tags/business/2007/08/24/indian-mergers-acquisitions-outsourcing-offshore/.
Images: http://www.infocrossing.com/images/logo.gif

Ubuntu

Ubuntu: "I am what I am because of who we all are." A translation offered by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Similar to a saying: A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.

Explaining how does it work inside an organization and its employees I found a company that applies everything what Ubuntu means. They are also called Ubuntu, they are dedicated on operation systems.







Here is they're code of conduct:

Be considerate. Our work will be used by other people, and we in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision we take will affect users and colleagues, and we should take those consequences into account when making decisions.

Be respectful. The Ubuntu community and its members treat one another with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to Ubuntu. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behaviour and poor manners.

Be collaborative. Collaboration is central to Ubuntu and to the larger free software community. We encourage individuals and teams to work together whether inside or outside the Ubuntu Project. This collaboration reduces redundancy, and improves the quality of our work. Internally and externally, we should always be open to collaboration.

When we disagree, we consult others. Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time and the Ubuntu community is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively and with the help of the community and community processes.

When we are unsure, we ask for help. Nobody knows everything, and nobody is expected to be perfect in the Ubuntu community. Asking questions avoids many problems down the road, and so questions are encouraged. Those who are asked questions should be responsive and helpful.

Step down considerately. Members of every project come and go and Ubuntu is no different. When somebody leaves or disengages from the project, in whole or in part, we ask that they do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. This means they should tell people they are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where they left off.

For cross-cultural managers it is very important because it is necessary to be an open person, available to others, you can't exist as a human being in isolation, you need others to improve yourself, and if you want to made business in other countries is essencial if you count with people abroad that can help you with your work.

Here is a video which explains Ubuntu



Bibliography:

Ubuntu, C. L. (2010). Ubuntu. Recuperado el 8 de 10 de 2010, de http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
Images taken from. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
Video: Youtube, Broadcast yourself. Ubuntu Experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTAH2gchas

Coffe, Smell of the morning

This task was to create a metaphor about some colombian product that was going to seek international markets.

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

What I'm trying to do with this methapor is to describe in a sense what coffe is, and why my product (coffe) should be drinked.
Coffe have a nice smell and thats why I related it with mornings, because we usually use it in this time of the day, to relax, and make our day more enthusiastic.

Everyone can drink coffe in the way they wanted to, with milk, just with water, with ice cream; it is a product that no house can live without it.

Image taken from: Busqueda imagenes de google. http://www.google.com.co/imgres?imgurl=http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/wp-content/photos/coffee_aroma.jpg
Definition of what a metaphor is. http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/metaphorterm.htm

Comments on friends Blogs

The next task was to go into others classmates blogs and comment about their entries.
These are the blogs I choose.


Natalia Toro Maya
http://natytorom.blogspot.com/
I found a really nice explanation about the pygmalion effect, with the example she gave I not just understand the pygmalion effect but also gain a little more about culture because I didn't know that the Ritz Carlton was applying this method.

Andres Penagos
http://organizacionesycultura2010-2eafit.blogspot.com/
About the pygamalion effect, the example he gave with Dinissan in Colombia everything starts being so clear. He found the perfect way of motivation.

Camila Osorio
http://organizacionesycultura2010-2eafit.blogspot.com/
Describing the main role of an International Business Manager she was on the precise way, she really explain it really well and I saw that she managed very good the project.

Juan Fernando Ramirez
http://juanramirez00.blogspot.com/
The example he took to explain the pygmalion effect with soccer team, because its really important to take into account the importance of this effect in every aspect of life.

John Henry Ciro
http://johnhenryorganizationsandcultures.blogspot.com/
what a nice way to sell a product that is made by ecological materials.

Pygmalion Effect

Hello everyone

I'm about to explain the pygmalion effect, in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform. We can also talk about the expectations in life, work, school, sports, relationships and events in the daily life.


As an example I'm going to base on teachers with a short feedback.

Rosenthal has researched the pygmalion issue for many years and has find some interesting facts. He performerd a study at an elemntary school ina a lower-middle class neighbourhood in the US. He took the children in grades q to 6 were given a satandrd IQ TEST at the beggining of the school year, the teachers were told that it was a test of Inflected Acquisition provided by Harvard University and that the test was designed to predict academic blooming. So students that had the higher scores on the test were ready to bloom academically and would progress in the coming year.

After that, teachers received a list with the names of their students who were in the top of 20% on the test. The names were random and the children that were there had'nt done better than the others.
When teachers expect greater development from some children, this children show greater performance.


Rosenthal defines 4 key factors which drive this Pygmalion effect:

1) Climate factor: teachers who expect more of certain students tend to create a warmer climate for those children, both verbally and non verbally (for example, they will smile more often at them).

2) Input factor: teachers will tend to teach more material to children they think are smarter

3) Response opportunity factor: children who are expected to bloom academicallly get more chance to respond.

4) Feedback factor: if more is expected of a child, he/she gets praised more when he/she is right but gets more differentiated feedback when he/she makes a mistake. Children who are not expected to perform get less feedback when they are wrong because teachers would seem to think that the children in question would not understand the correction and so the teachers spend less time trying to correct them.

In conclusion the experiment shows that the result of the children for whom the teachers had expected greater intellectual growth averaged significantly greater improvement than the others.

At work this four key factors also appear, consciously or unconsciously bosses adopt behaviours which may drive succes for some and failures for others.

Pygmalion effect has to mean "you get what you expect", if we expect somethign to happen, our expectation will tend to male it so.

To finish here is a video about Learning Behaviour on Students.



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Busqueda de imagenes Google. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn8uSSSH58swKiTXgi8RiNBk3eHJIRwtfm05BASUrCw_992As&t=1&usg=__r3XQ3BMhXjvNIruWJbvUJCdNqwc=

Josephnoone. The Pygmalion effect: expect the worst and we most likely will get it!. posted on 11/11/2009 from http://josephnoone.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-pygmalion-effect-what-you-expect-as-a-manager-is-what-you-get-in-terms-of-results/
YouTube. Learning Behaviour.

Organizational Behaviour

Regarding Organizational Behaviour, international business managers have a really important role in the negotiation arena, usually IBM went abroad making negotiations that will profit them sometime. as it is known, the whole world is full of different cultures, so in every new negotiation is very important to know ethics, political views, gender, religion, demography, ethnography.
For example for japanese people is very important to know its client/customer bye the way they act in their family or in the dinner table.
Its very important to develope cross cultural management skills, because not everyone think as we think, and something that for us could be normal for others can be disrespectful.

Image taken From: www.cartoonstock.com
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/ato/lowres/aton1407l.jpg

Some Interesting Links

Searching on the web, most expecificly on www.thebobs.com I find some other blogs that can be very striking.

http://technosophi.blogspot.com/
is about the idea that technology is deployed to make life easier for humans.that technology contributes to human welfare.

http://www.peaceforgaza.blogspot.com/
This Blog is written by a palestinian who was born and raised in Gaza. What he wants is that the whole world knows whats happening in Gaza, he wishes that peace will finally arrived.

http://www.cipe.org/blog/
This blogs is in current actualization about the events in democracy and market oriented reforms.