The Cosmopolitan Corporation

1.The experiences I have had that have prepared me to pursue a master’s degrees in social work have been time at the Boys & Girls Club, being an officer for an honor society, and my placement at a social service agency. While I was attending community college, I began working at the Boys & Girls Club of South County for their before and after school program. During my time there, I learned the importance of time management, and I got to see the impact parent involvement could have on a student. The after school program was going through many changes and began incorporating more educational activities. As a Group Leader, I had to schedule my day to implement the new activities, like comic book readings and STEM projects, as well as the daily journals, homework time, snack time and the enrichment activity of the day. The 5 hours we had with the students were booked back to back so it was important to plan the days ahead of time, and prepare for the next day after the students had gone. As for parent involvement, after spending hours with my group of 19 students every week, I was able to tell which parents had a bigger involvement in their student’s

The essay titled "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case against Helping the Poor" by Garrett Hardin, was very interesting. The first part of the essay used a metaphor of the rich people of the earth in a lifeboat and the poor people in the sea drowning. The rich people could only allow a few people in and if they let, too many people in they will sink the boat and all die. The best thing for the rich people to do is not to let anyone in so they will have adequate supplies and space for them to survive.

In this assignment I will attempt to explore the concept that despite the spread and influence of the globalization of business and industries on our world’s economies and cultures, a large multinational firm is still influenced in a fundamental way by its home country’s institutions and culture. I will illustrate this discussion with an analysis of the strategies employed by the multinational energy company BP plc (formally British Petroleum).

Globalization of business has had a large impact on the field of management. Those seeking management roles in large, multinational corporations must have a different set of skills than in previous generations. In his article “Globalization on the Homefront”, Harold Torrence (n.d.) wrote, “As a direct result [of globalization], management teams are racing to develop the skills and competencies needed to comprehend and appreciate an onslaught of values, assumptions, beliefs and traditions that are fundamentally different from their own.”

The issue of popular support is further connected to terrorist group’s specific objectives, or goals. In general, terrorists motivated by a religious component are often associated with ‘apocalyptic’ like goals. Hoffman notes that these ‘apocalyptic’ goals, are in nature more violent when compared to the often more tangible political based goals of many secular groups. The association between religiously motivated terrorist groups and apocalyptic like goals is well known throughout academia. Jessica Stern’s book, Terror in the Name of God further references this connection. She is particularly careful not to equate these general end-of-time beliefs to one religion in particular. Instead she notes how such beliefs often span across multiple religions by noting their presence in various sacred texts across all three of the major Abrahamic faiths. She further ties back to Hoffman’s work when discussing how apocalyptic like goals often allow for more violence and destruction when compared to other terrorist objectives (such as forming a new government, or expelling a foreign nation from perceived territory). While Hoffman notes the specific constituency that secular terrorists must appeal to, Stern ties the lack of a needed supportive constituency back to religious terrorist goals. Because religiously motivated groups often seek the complete destruction of society, these groups are less concerned with long-term popular support, (beyond basic funding and recruitment needs.)

Over the last few decades there has been a substantial amount of attention being diverted towards born global firms who unlike ordinary firms, have defied the traditional stage wise process of internationalization. These firms have long puzzled researchers and challenged the basic perception of internationalization. As a result it has given way to a new field of research and aroused global interest in the emergence and success of these firms. This essay will go on explain why born global firms emerge, the factors that influence them and examples of born global firms in the real world. Uppsala’s theory of internationalization (Johanson & Vahlne, 1977 ) and Stephen Hymer’s Three Determinants theory are used to further analyze this essay.

The companies have become a key parameter, especially in the global economy. The size of global companies closely correlated with the decrease of vulnerabilities, with higher resistance to economic shocks occurred along the time and with their bigger chances of success in certain markets. Companies aim not only to optimize their size, but also to strengthen the global production networks, affording them a better competitive position, in a mighty competitive environment and under the pressure of quick development of the technological environment. The size of an organization has become a barrier that stops its entry into the sector, higher than profitability, which explains why some corporations have focused, in recent times, more on strengthening their position abroad, although their economic performance does not justify this endeavor. The process of economic globalization is both a resultant of the increasing activity of multinational organizations and a cause of their increasingly stronger internationally affirmation. However, global organizations activity is much more intense in the developed countries; their impact on the developing countries must not be neglected. Global organizations have a few main features that individualize them from all other forms of companies known so far:

Nowadays, businesses must think big. It is not enough to be the best in the city or even the country. The goal should be to go global and take advantage of the opportunities offered by the phenomenon of globalization and be part of the “global market”. This is rather ambitious but some companies have stepped out their country’s borders and have gained global recognition.

Globalisation has been defined as “the processes rendering the world as a whole as a single place” (Robertson, 1990, p.19). With three main developments included trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and the international transfer of knowledge and technology, it promotes the increase of Multinational Corporation (MNC), especially in US, East and South-East Asian and Western European (Kleinert, 2011). MNCs can be seen as the dominators of world trade as a consequence of sufficient global resources and operations (Clegg et al. 2011). However, managers of such MNCs are required to have sophisticated control skills

Globalisation allows individuals, groups, corporations, and countries to reach around the world farther, faster, more deeply, and more cheaply than ever before. Most large local companies regard globalisation as opportunity, thereby exploring overseas markets for maximum market share and optimum business strategies. However, managers would face a series of challenges caused by leadership models, cultural backgrounds, political and economic risks, HR management, etc. To study multinational management skills is very useful for my future career. In this essay, I will set goals for this subject, identify the skills I have honed and need to improve, and explain my strategies for achieving goals.

The Rapid Change of International Business is international transactions that have substantial operations in more than one country. International exposure and experience allow companies to build a brand in other markets, cultures, and customs. The globalization of International Business are direct investments to export and import goods, foreign, domestic control and to advance competition with other companies. International business gives employees opportunities to broaden their horizons to consider learning the business from a foreign point of view through technology, cost, and political resources from a foreign point of view (Bethel, 2011).

The world offers significant business opportunities for every company, however, opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges for managers. Managing global operations across diverse cultures and markets represents a big challenge and opportunity for companies. To compete in the global market and be successful, companies must learn the strategies, policies, norms and technology necessary to conduct international business. The opportunities for global expansion are numerous, and attaining success is a matter of developing the right strategy to win local markets and its consumers.

In this essay, I am going to discuss how practices of managing culture have been used to develop the management of Globalization in the post-bureaucratic era. Globalization has led to the increasing number of global business relationships, the emergence of new global work structures and work environments. To address this I will discuss Cultural globalization, the practices of Frederick Taylor (Carol Carlson Dean, (1997)) that have led to the social dominance, as corporations around the world have started to adopt these practices to increase bureaucracy for interest and welfare of the companies. Proceeding on to the second point on Global leaders in a heterogeneous vs. homogeneous world. Where (Rego, A., Clegg, S. & Cunha, M. 2011) describe the heterogeneous view “We live in an increasingly borderless world that is nonetheless still filled with linguistic, cultural, political, temporal, economic, and social borders." compared to (Osifo.S, Eromosele. O December 2011) who says that globalisation has allowed “Organizations have an innate tendency to develop homogeneity, in the sense of shared beliefs and shared values. And finally triple bottom line approach in multinationals. Where pressures from stakeholders, have given companies incentive to focus on triple bottom line (Carol M. Sánchez, Alexandra S. Schmid, 2013)

In the recent years, the movement of the modern business are very much according to the globalisation of the world's economy, which resulted in the increasing amount of international businesses, global economic competition, and the difference/divergence within the organisations. Globalisation creates international business environment that requires businesses to be more competitive. And in order to be more active and competitive, companies have to be able to adapt themselves to the constant change, which can be driven by cultural diversity (Salas, Goodwin and Burke, 2009). In the future, the skill to

INTRODUCTION: Enlarged competition and relaxed economic restrictions have given rise to the development of the force of globalisation, which subsequently have led to multinational companies and managers. In 2000, the global trade in exports and imports extended 25% of the world GDP (Govindrajan & Gupta 2000). The rise of globalisation speculates a number of imperative tests to business seeking international incidence, more notably, to these business’s global managers to successfully help achieve this presence. Numerous strategic facets must be measured prior to commitment at an international level, and afterwards. Continuous flexibility is essential in order to adapt to the fluctuating patterns at local, regional and international