Cultural differences between North Korea and South Korea

First of all there are a lot of political and economic differences between the two countries. After world war II North Korea inherited a communistic form of government from the USSR, while South Korea became a democracy. The war had completely disrupted the country and left an uneasy government. There are great cultural differences because they have developed separately from each other, and while South Korea is doing better and better, North Korea is always into trouble. While South Korea has experienced economic success and Christianity, North Koreans are starving.
The large number of refugees from the North migrating into the South and economic and political instability are some of the problems between them, as the contrasting political ideologies and the great discrimination.
There is also a difference in the religious development, the number of protestant believers has multiplied at an amazing rate at South Korea. Since the Korean War, it has been illegal to be a Christian in North Korea.
As North Koreans migrates, they sometimes have problems finding their place, because they are treated differently by many South Koreans.

Sources:
- http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t3w30korea.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_reunification
- http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Country_comparisons/Korea_North_South.htm

Wednesday September 8th

Informal Organizations
Informality: Operates in illegality but not with antisocial objectives. It has in mind legal goals.

Characteristics:
- Do not use complex technologies.
- There is not a well stablished work division.
- They are not legally constituted.
- They have many work relationships at the same time.

Social Problems:
- Don´t pay taxes.
- Unfair competition with the formal sector.
- No warranty on products.
- Social Disconfort.
- Threats on health.

Induction Factors:
- Economic needs.
-Traffic and explotaition of human beings.
- Migrations.
- Access to cheaper resources.
- Lack of legal and Financial opportunities.

South Korea
The role of workers and migrant workers
The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national.

Some things that a worker should consider

• Seeking a variety of assignments.

• tackling tough problems and asking for feedback.

• Opportunities to coach others and finding good coaches for him or herself

• Developmental relationships that provide a variety of learning.

• identify goals for new skills.

Which is my role towards immigrants?

Immigration is the proccess of entering the frontier of a foreign country by people who resides in a different place. The main reasons of why people migrates are:
- political, social, religious and racial percecution.
- lack of resources.
- increasing life expectancy.
- environment conditions.
- armed conflict.

It is true that immigrants are looking for new opportunities of job, for better conditions of life, they want to begging a new life in other place were they consider they can progress. I think that we have to give them support and give them our help, we don´t need more discrimination in our country, we have to provide immigrants better opportunities of life. But it is also true that they bring negative consequences to the country:

- Increase racist attitudes toward people.
- Growing competition for jobs.
- Leads to growing poverty and inequality, social fragmentation, marginalisation and unrest.
- Policies on social cohesion that promote assimilation over multiculturalism.
- Negative stereotypes about immigrants.
- Conflicting values.
- Different ways of thinking and different ways of thought.
- Changes in culture.

Sources:

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/2/0/1/1/p20113_index.html

http://www.3s4.org.uk/drivers/attitudes-towards-immigrants

Wednesday September 1st

Some important concepts...

Expatriate: temporaly or permanently residing in a different country from were he or she is a citizen. Is a proffessional that goes to another country. Having an expatriate employee is really expensive, so it is possible to talk about an expatriation about quality and no quantity. They have to be thrustworthy employees and have the complete support of the organization.

Migration: Population phenomenon in which an individual or group of individuals moves from its habitat towards a new location, implying permanence in the new place.

Inmigration: Process of entering the frontier of a foreign country by people who resides in a different place.

Emigration: Act of leaving a country with the intention of staying in a second country or region.

Exposition China - Merging Process
Business combination transactions involving the combination of two or more companies into a single entity.

Seven Phases:
- Planning & Preparation
- Marketing
- Relationship building & negotiation
- Due diligence
- Approvals & communication
- Conversion
- Post – merger.

When one company takes over another and clearly established itself as the new owner, the purchase is called an acquisition.

A merger happens when two firms, often of about the same size, agree to go forward as a single new company rather than remain separately owned and operated

What is a manager in the modern organization?

Nowadays the manager plays a very important role in the organizations. Its main activities are:

"- Supervise and manage the staff in his department.
-Analyzing, reporting, giving recommendations and developing strategies.
- Achieve business and organization goals, visions and objectives.
- Involved in employee selection, career development, succession planning and periodic training.
- Working out compensations and rewards.
- Responsible for the growth and increase in the organizations' finances and earnings.
-Identifying problems, creating choices and providing alternatives courses of actions."

The manager is the one who answers all the questions, the one who know the solutions to all the problems, he stablishes an order in the company, is the one who has the power and assign tasks to its employees. The manager get involved in the productive activities and participate. He must encourage trust and confidence among its employees, interact with them, he must stablish cooperation and values as a priority. He also must avoid misinterpretations and dissatisfaction, clarify the goals to the entire company, he is the one who makes the most important decisions and give training and support. Nowadays the manager have a lot of responsabilities and have the most important tasks. He has high standards for goals and in the company is seen as a great leader. He also have the role of listening the ideas of the people he work with, and encouraging them to ask for help.

Sources:

http://www.suite101.com/content/the-managers-role-in-modern-business-a67373

http://www.about-personal-growth.com/managers.html

Wednesday August 25

At this class two groups made their expositions:

-Management style - Brazil.

-Change and conflict in enterprises - Chile.

Types of management style:

- Democratic: The manager delegates authority to his staff, giving them responsability to complete their tasks using their own work methods.

- Consultative: The manager will ask views and opinions from their staff allowing them to feel involved but the manager is who really makes the final decision.

- Laissez - Faire: The manager sets the tasks and gives staff complete freedom to complete them. Minimal involvement of the manager.

- Authocratic: The manager dictate orders to the staff and make decisions without consultants.

Efective management style:

- Participatory style: give an employee an entire task to complete.

- Directing Style: manager answers five questions to employees.

- Teamwork Style.

In Brazil...

Managers are expected to manage, boss give direct instructions without to much discussion or debate, boss and subordinates work hard to foster a relationship based on thrust and respect.

Change in enterprises: Organizational change is any action or set of actions resulting in a shift in direction or process that affects the way an organization works. Change is normal within an organization. It is important to listen and analyze their potential impacts within the organization. The types of change are: Development Change, Transitional Change and Transformational Change.

Conflict in enterprises: Organizational conflict is the difference, incompatibility, discord or divergence of values, ideas, interests and goals between individuals or groups within an organization. The types of conflict are: Interpersonal Conflict, Intragroup Conflict, Intergroup Conflict and Interorganizational Conflict. Generally it occurs:

- When there are difefrent objectives.

- When there is no teamwork.

- When there is no communication between supervisors and employees.

- When there is lack of communication and lack of motivation among employees.

- When there are cultural differences.

Wednesday August 18

At this class we did the first midterm, it consist in analyse a case in groups:
- Relate the Colombian manager with the document.
- What was the main idea of the author.
- Why is power important in a company.