RREFLECTIVE ESSAY
OPERATIONAL VARIABLES
CW3 William K. Wilkins
WOILE 17-013 / G403C
July 30, 2017
Question 1: Select two operational variables from the PMESII-PT construct and explain why they are important within an operational environment? What is Operational Environment? Operational environment is the combination of the conditions, circumstances, and influences, which will determine the use of military forces and help the unit commanders to make their decisions. Operational Environment consists of variables from the Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical and Time (PMESII-PT). PMESSII-PT variables are all-important, but today I will talk about Social and Infrastructure. Social Variables are important because all environments are different. While assigned to 2ID, I embraced a social different. Koreans exhibit their respect for their elders every day. Korea train system displays the respect they have for their elderly and sick. The train system has a designated seating area assigned for the elderly and handicap. Koreans understand that you automatically stand and give your seat to an elderly person. Americans do not force such things on you, because they do not value the elderly in this fashion. Cultural standoff is the act of using social aspects of the environment to provide protection and freedom to maneuver. Knowing social variables allow us to learn the ways of the host country and ultimately aids
It is common in South Korea, that people trying hard to maintain the condition of Kibun both in personal and professional business life. This is usually shown by respecting others’ opinion, feeling, be polite, be friendly, and do their best when doing something. One more thing, there is Nunchi in South Korea, which means the way people examining non-verbal, tone, and body language by using eye. The things spoken may not always be the true meaning, for example, they say “Are you sleepy?” And if you answer “No”, it might hurt their feeling, because by asking that, implicitly they want to tell you they were sleepy and wanted to go to bed.
There are four characteristics of a controlled environment and they include the following: status hierarchy,
From that, Korean and American cultures are similar and difference in many ways. First of all, I want to start with the comparison between how American and Korean treat older people. For Americans, when you speak to older people you can call them by name or you or Sir or Ma’am or whatever, but for Korean, you have to call older people by name and ‘님’ or ‘선생님’ like in English word Sir or Ma’am. If you are Korean and you call your father as “you”, you will get slapped. When I first heard my friend call his grand-father by name, I was thinking how they are disrespect older people, it is not acceptable in Korea.
TASK 3C (P3.3) In this criteria, I will explain how business environment such as political, social, technical, legal and environmental and cultural environment shape the behavior of Target Corporation. First what is cultural environment? It is an arrangement of convictions, practices, traditions and practices that are observed to be common to everybody that is living inside a specific population.
Basically, the main points of conflict between cultures includes differing ideals, values, and beliefs. In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,
It is in observing how people deal with and react to conflicts that we see clear differences between cultures. Some cultures view conflict as a positive thing, while others view it as something to be avoided. In the United States, conflict is not usually desirable; nonetheless, conventional wisdom in this country encourages individuals to deal directly with conflicts when they do arise. In fact, face-to-face encounters are usually suggested as the way to work through whatever problems exist. By contrast, in many Asian countries, open conflict is experienced as embarrassing or demeaning.
An important principle of cultural safety is that it doesn’t raise folks to concentrate on the cultural dimensions of any culture apart from their own. Instead, cultural safety is primarily regarding examining our own cultural identities and attitudes, and being broad-minded and versatile in our attitudes towards folks from cultures apart from our own. By analyzing a number of minimum or generic needs square measure able to access whether or not we have a tendency to are culturally safe or not.
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So countries need to assess national interests, whether to cooperate or not. Constructivism also emphasizes the influence of culture in international relations. This is because the relationship is true not only taking into account the political and ideological aspects alone, but also the cultural aspects. For example, if there are cultural similarities between actors will be more likely to facilitate collaboration and no conflicts will occur. This can be seen through the relationship between Malaysia and Indonesia that have a similar culture, namely the cultural and religious expression of Islam.
Everyday food Abstract The article discusses the role of food as an instrument of identity and a channel of contact through cultures. This is discussed drawing from three cases of Italian food culture hybridization spanning from the early 20th century to the first decade of the 2000s: the role of Italian food in Italian-American identity as depicted in Leonardo Coviello’s work; the meeting of Southern and Northern food cultures following the Italian internal migrations in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the food practices of international migrants in the context of the global flows of people and commodities in present day Italy. In this regard, food plays an essential role in the rebuilding of a familiar context in which migrants can feel temporarily
Strategic Quality and Systems Management Report Operations Management Operations management is now the most essential part in maintaining organizational systems. Actually operations management means all the necessary activities of an organization like finance, human resource management, research, marketing etc (Elnathan, 1995). Whether it is planning, leading, organizing or controlling, they all are part of an organization’s operations management. Because of the speedy change of the business environment, internal and external factors like market position, market value, possibility etc. (Stanton, 2001).
• Operations: These are the transformation activities that change inputs into outputs that are sold to customers. Here, your operational systems create
This process carries risk with it as it holds a lesser adopted approach. P4: The key approaches to operations management and the role that leaders and managers play. Operations management
Operation management is a crucial tool which help organization to achieve its objectives. This is required for limited period of time and finances to fulfill the objectives. Benefits of safe, timely, cost effective, high quality and law abiding production Safe production is important for sustaining the skilled workforce. This gives them the peace of mind and make the most of their abilities to contribute towards the prosperity of the company.
When talk about Korea, no one who does not know Korea. People known that Korea is a modern country that had a fast growing economy, and had a top education ranking. I have known Korea through the spread of Korean culture. Nowadays, in Thailand, Korean culture has a role in the everyday lives of people. The question that arises now is “Why Korea?”