This Thesis is called "Opportunities of culture funding for Strakonice region". The main topic of thesis is rescue culture heritage, its financial support from the EU or National budget of the Czech republic. The Diploma Thesis consists of two parts, theoretic and practic one. The first part includes the kinds of financial supports, a present and a future progression of Czech and European regional culture field. One of chapters, the charter 2. 5. 4 is more focused on the Czech culture strategy. The regional policy has ben elevated since 2014. The culture sector will be the main part the European economy strategy because of its social and economic potential. The second part is about the concrete regional artefacts which have been reconstructed with a financial supports by the owners, national or European funds. The last part have been concentrated for resume of the achieved results and a recommendation for the future culture progression.

175 p. / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-07T20:26:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 15252525.pdf: 701317 bytes, checksum: b3dfa954f220e6384c14176d117cff83 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-07T20:26:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 15252525.pdf: 701317 bytes, checksum: b3dfa954f220e6384c14176d117cff83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A realidade brasileira é constituída por uma construção histórico-social que reúne uma profusão de tradições, de línguas, etnias, costumes, visões de mundo e de comportamentos, os quais expressam modos de ser e de se relacionar distintos, identificando a pluralidade cultural como uma das grandes características do país. Nesse contexto, esta dissertação analisa a interação entre culturas regionais no Brasil, procurando evidenciar as diferentes percepções existentes entre as culturas gaúcha e baiana durante o convívio no ambiente de trabalho de uma organização gaúcha instalada na Bahia há mais de dez anos. A revisão teórica sobre cultura, cultura organizacional, estudos da cultura nacional e a formação das culturas regionais gaúcha e baiana subsidiou o trabalho empírico e as análises dos resultados obtidos. Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com gaúchos e baianos foram verificadas diferenças na maneira como estes, embora pertencentes a uma mesma cultura nacional, percebem a si e ao outro grupo cultural distinto. Verificou-se, também, que, na percepção dos entrevistados, a organização, ambiente deste convívio intercultural, tende a uniformizar tal diversidade, não atentando em suas decisões para a relevância das diferenças presentes dentro ou fora dos limites da organização. / Salvador

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:30:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmar Caetano Tomaz2.pdf: 1657270 bytes, checksum: dd0ca832f36b7f11ea85917f3c13f4b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research seeks to analyze and address the ways the televised media within the Assemblies of God churches in Brazil, here researched, mentioned herein plural in will present due to the many denominational ramifications, in their constructions of symbolic representations, imaginary, cultural and media. The aim is to analyze the symbolic dimension on the television usage prohibition among the denominations in question and the arguments for the veto in the midst of the faithful, television s discrete acceptability based on AGs new theological conceptions over the years, investment in free broadcasting Networks (Television Network Boas Novas) and proposal of a televised program as a Denomination s brand name (Pentecostal Movement Program). The adopted methodology for the viability of this research work consists of historical literature research, with its focus on the key issues for the imaginary research s development of the research on the imaginary, identity, culture, nation and television, in addition to documentation research, that has historical records as its aim, which will better elucidate the paths and connection between the television and the Assemblies of God. / Esta pesquisa busca abordar e analisar os caminhos da mídia televisiva nas igrejas Assembleias de Deus no Brasil, aqui trabalhadas no plural devido às muitas ramificações da denominação, em suas construções das representações simbólicas, imaginárias, culturais e midiáticas. O objetivo é analisar a dimensão simbólica na proibição do uso da televisão na denominação religiosa em questão, e os argumentos para o veto entre os fiéis, a discreta aceitabilidade da TV diante das novas concepções teológicas das ADs ao longo dos anos, investimento em canal aberto (Rede Boas Novas de Televisão) e proposta de um programa televisivo como marca midiática da denominação (Programa Movimento Pentecostal). Para viabilidade desse trabalho, a metodologia adotada consiste em pesquisa bibliográfica histórica, com foco nos temas fundamentais para o desenvolvimento das pesquisas do imaginário, identidade, cultura, nação e televisão, aliada à pesquisa documental, que tem como meta os registros históricos, que melhor elucidarão os caminhos e a ligação da TV com as Assembleias de Deus.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SemioPTS.pdf: 324761 bytes, checksum: 3a511c0e2de3c47eda8704cd52e0960d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-28 / This present study analyses the relationship between national culture and entrepreneurship, in order to contribute in understanding the impact and the influence of Brazilian culture under the business practices of foreign entrepreneur on the tourism area of Rio Grande do Norte state. Researchers in entrepreneurship field, such as Schumpeter (2005), Weber (2006), McClelland (1972), Murphy, Liao, Welsch (2006), Peyrefitte (1999), Blanchflower (1988), Filion (2000), among others, and in the national culture, high-lighting Caldas and Woods (1999), Hofstede (1997) and Barros and Prates (1996), are put together to create a starting point to this present research, that reaches out for a differential approach, in order to create a correlation between Brazilian culture and the foreign entrepreneur, who chose Rio Grande do Norte state to live and invest. It was observed that in the case of the Switzerland entrepreneur, where the cultural difference is more strong, either in Hofstede's perspective than in Brazilian s authors, the management practices are more negatively affected. The rationalization adopted by the entrepreneur and the employee s logic are in battle in a day-to-day operation of the company. In the case of the Argentinean entrepreneur, the cultural difference exists, but it does not impact as much, because of her personal characteristics and the similarities of Latin culture than surfaces the differences. Finally, this study showed the necessity of analyzing the enterprising regarding the cultural issue, in a way to highlight the different rationalities in different atmospheres where it is practiced the enterprise / O presente estudo analisa a rela??o entre cultura nacional e empreendedorismo, contribuindo para entender o impacto e a influ?ncia da cultura brasileira sobre as pr?ticas de neg?cio e de gest?o dos empreendedores estrangeiros no setor de turismo do estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Pesquisas no campo do empreendedorismo, com autores como Schumpeter (2005), Weber (2006), McClelland (1972), Murphy, Liao, Welsch (2006), Peyrefitte (1999), Blanchflower (1988), Filion (2000), entre outros, e no campo da cultura nacional, com destaque aos trabalhos de Caldas e Woods (1999), Hofstede (1997) e Barros e Prates (1996), somam-se para criar o ponto de partida para a presente pesquisa, que busca uma abordagem diferenciada, posto criar uma correla??o entre cultura brasileira e o empreendedor estrangeiro radicado no RN. Observou-se que no caso do empreendedor su??o, onde a diferen?a cultural ? mais significativa, tanto na perspectiva de Hofstede quanto dos autores brasileiros, as pr?ticas de gest?o s?o mais afetadas negativamente. As racionalidades adotadas pelo gestor e a l?gica adotada pelos empregados entra em choque no cotidiano da organiza??o. No caso da empreendedora argentina, a diferen?a, ainda que exista, n?o produz tanto impacto uma vez que as caracter?sticas pessoais da empreendedora e o compartilhamento de tra?os culturais latinos superam as diferen?as. Finalmente, o estudo evidenciou a necessidade de analisar o empreendedorismo ? luz das dimens?es culturais de forma a evidenciar diferentes racionalidades poss?veis nos diferentes espa?os sociais onde se d? a pr?tica de empreender

In the rapid pace of globalization and new market competition, the New Product Development (NPD) and the Supply Chain Management (SCM) represent today a frontier to obtain competitive advantages to companies. One interface between NPD and the SCM, the Supplier Integration (SI) has proved to be effective as competitive advantage. However, there is a lack of research on how human variables, such as national culture, can moderate the effectiveness of Supplier Integration on those fields. Therefore, this study investigates the relationships between Supplier Integration from the Product-Process-Supply Chain triad and the National Culture Dimensions. I conducted an exploratory case study in 3 companies in the automobilist industry that operates as a Modular Consortium (MC) in Southern Brazil and used the Hofstede´s (2001) national culture dimensions to model national cultural factors. The findings show an evident relation between Supplier Integration with the Low Power Distance, Low Individualism and High Uncertainty Avoidance poles, while no Masculinity and Longterm Orientation pole was distinct for the Supplier Integration in the case study. The managerial implications of this study is to provide a better understanding of the potential impact of human factor to the Supplier Integration in companies that will have operations in Brazil. / No ritmo acelerado da globalização e nova concorrência no mercado, Desenvolvimento de Novos Produtos (NPD) e Supply Chain Management (SCM) representam hoje uma fronteira para obter vantagens competitivas para as empresas. Uma interface entre o NPD e o SCM, a Integração do Fornecedor (SI) provou ser eficaz como vantagem competitiva. No entanto, há uma falta de investigação sobre como variáveis humanas, tais como cultura nacional, pode moderar a eficácia da integração do fornecedor (SI) nesses campos do conhecimento. Portanto, este estudo investiga as relações entre fornecedor Integração da Cadeia na tríade Produto-Processo-Cadeia de Suprimentos e as Dimensões da Cultura Nacional. Para tal foi realizado um estudo de caso exploratório em três empresas do setor automobilístico que operam no Consórcio Modular (MC) no Sudeste do Brasil e usaram-se as dimensões culturais de Hofstede\'s (2001) para modelar fatores humanos. Os resultados mostram uma evidente relação entre a integração do fornecedor com a baixa Distância do Poder, baixo Individualismo e elevada Aversão à Incerteza, no entanto não foram obtidas relações evidentes para as dimensões Masculinidade e Orientação a Longo Prazo para a Integração do Fornecedor no estudo de caso. A principal colaboração deste trabalho é o fornecimento de uma melhor compreensão do potencial impacto do fator humano para a integração do fornecedor em empresas que possuem operações no Brasil.

[pt] O objetivo central do trabalho é definir estratégias de remuneração alinhadas com a cultura organizacional. Para tal, realizou-se uma revisão de literatura sobre cultura organizacional, cultura nacional, ciclo de vida organizacional, tipologias culturais e remuneração. Essa reflexão faz-se importante, pois a estratégia de remuneração fortalece os comportamentos e atitudes percebidas como relevantes para o êxito organizacional e também é influenciada pelos valores culturais existentes. Escolheu-se para o estudo de caso um Grupo empresarial, que no trabalho terá como nome XYZ para preservar sua identidade. Ele é formado originalmente por capital inglês aplicado no Brasil e sua história se confunde com a história nacional. O Grupo é formado por vários negócios com características particulares e, no ano de 2007, abriu seu capital na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Embora um estudo de caso não permita generalizações, a dissertação conclui pela existência de estratégias de remuneração que apresentam melhor alinhamento com determinadas culturas organizacionais, encontrando, no estudo de caso realizado, a aderência da cultura do Grupo estudado com a estratégia de remuneração proposta. Analisa-se também que transformações na cultura de uma organização levam à necessidade do ajuste de suas estratégias remuneração, bem como, faz-se importante estudar o ciclo de vida e cultura organizacional dos diferentes negócios/departamentos existentes, para a proposição de estratégias de remuneração customizadas às necessidades específicas dos mesmos. / [en] This study aims at defining remuneration strategies aligned with the organizational culture. In order to achieve such an objective a review of the literature concerning organizational culture, cultural typologies and remuneration was made. The relevance of such reflection lies on the fact that the remuneration strategy strengthens the behavior and attitude considered a key to the organizational success as well as it is influenced by the existing cultural values. The case study focuses on an enterprise group, named as XYZ in order to preserve its identity. The Group is originally formed by British capital invested in Brazil and its own history lies within the lines of the national history. The Group is formed by several businesses in different areas and in 2007 had its capital open in the Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (Exchange). Although a case study does not allow generalizations, this dissertation concludes to the existence of strategies of remuneration that present a better alignment to certain organizational cultures, thus, such as in this case study, attaching the culture of the subject Group to the proposed strategy of remuneration. This study also analyses the fact that the changes of an organizational culture result in the need for adjustments in its strategies of remuneration, as well as studying the circle of life and organizational culture of the different existing departments / businesses is important to propose remuneration strategies customized to the specific necessities of each case.

This thesis is about the construction of a nationalised public Catholic culture in Slovakia from 1985 to 1993. At the core of this culture was the assumption that the Catholic Church had always been an integral part of the Slovak nation, her past, her present and her future. The thesis seeks to answer the question of who created this culture during the 1980s and 1990s and how and why they did so. To answer these questions this thesis adopts a cultural approach and explores how this culture was created utilising the concepts of collective memory, symbols and events as its main analytical tools. The data for this analysis include, but are not restricted to, materials produced in relation to various commemorative events and pilgrimages, especially those related to the leading national Catholic symbols: the National Patroness Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows and Saints Cyril and Methodius. The thesis argues that this culture was deliberately constructed from the point of view of many actors. Before 1989 these included the official Catholic hierarchy, underground Catholic Church communities, the pope and nationalist Communists. After 1989 these actors continued to construct this culture even as their positions of power changed. Most notably, underground Catholics became part of current ecclesiastical and political elite, and communist nationalists dissociated themselves from the Communist Party but retained their position within the cultural and political elite. The thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter looks at how the nationalised public Catholic culture started in the mid-1980s with underground Catholic communities that focused on culture and grassroots mobilisation. The second chapter looks at how the nationalist Communists and the official church hierarchy became involved in construction of parts of this culture and how their involvement resonated with the underground Catholic communities. Chapter Three examines how this culture continued to develop in the early 1990s in a new political context, and how it contributed to a broader cultural legitimisation of Slovak independence.

Abstract Title: The impact of national culture on the organizational culture: Multinational companies doing businesses in developing countries Level: Final assignment for Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) Author: Md. Mahbub Alam Supervisor: Dr. Ehsanul Huda Chowdhury Examiner: Dr. Maria Fregidou-Malama Day: 2017- May Aim: The aim of the study is to understand how national culture of Bangladesh is affecting the organizational culture of the multinational firms operating in Bangladesh. To understand the issue, Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions are regarded as benchmark for analysis. Method: Qualitative study has been conducted whereby both primary and secondary data are used. Hereby, primary data have been gathered from ten employees of Grameen Phone a multinational working in Bangladesh. To collect data, face to face interviews has been conducted using Skype. Results & Conclusions:  Finding of the study is the MNCs integration with national culture with the view to sustainable business operation. It has been demonstrated that national culture affects the organizational culture in the form of employee participation, collective working environment, collaborative work efforts, and knowledge sharing through continuous communication. Suggestions for future research: Further investigations on national culture’s impact on organizational culture can be undertaken by making a comparison between MNC and a purely local firm. Additionally, an analysis on a large number of MNCs operating in host country can add value for further researches. Contribution of the thesis: To the theoretical model, this study makes contribution on the ground of understanding how MNC adapt their business with local culture where cultural sensitiveness is high. Managerial implications: MNCs can ensure collaboration, support, and teamwork among employees as part of their attempt to integrate with local culture. This study reveals that local employees can be used as means of cultural carriers by managers which can promptly address the cultural differences to be mitigated. Keywords: Multi-national Corporations (MNCs), National Culture, Organizational Culture, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism vs. Collectivism, Power Distance

Huvudsyftet med denna studie är att kartlägga huruvida svenska företag anpassar sina CSR-strategier i en internationell kontext. Studien har även ett delsyfte som ämnar att undersöka koordinationen mellan huvudkontor och dotterbolag samt vilka anledningar som ligger bakom vald strategi. Studien har utförts i form av en fallstudie bestående av en metodtriangulering. Trianguleringen består av kvantitativa innehållsanalyser och kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer. De resultat som frambringats visar att en majoritet av de svenska företagen i studien använder en global CSR-strategi. Dessutom skiljer sig koordinationen, som förväntat, mellan företag som använder en anpassad strategi jämfört med de som använder en global strategi. Slutligen uppvisas delade meningar rörande kulturens inflytande vid val av CSR-strategi. / The main purpose with this study is to map whether Swedish companies adapt their CSR strategies in an international context. The purpose is also to examine the coordination between headquarters and subsidiaries and also about the reasons behind the chosen strategy. The study has been carried out through a case study consisting of a triangulation of methods. The triangulation consists of quantitative content analyses and qualitative semi-structured interviews. The findings show that a majority of the Swedish companies in the study uses a global CSR strategy. Additionally, the coordination used by companies with an adaptation strategy differ from the ones used by companies with a global strategy, as expected. Finally, the findings show split opinions considering the influence of culture while choosing CSR strategy.

The Diploma Thesis deals with cultural aspects of multilateral international negotiations at the United Nations. The aim of the work is to describe and compare the cultural dimension of sample of cultures at the UN: Czech, Italian and Swedish culture. Thesis is divided into four chapters. First chapter is theoretical and describes the most important basis for research on cultural dimensions. Second chapter briefly presents the entire UN organization and then focuses on its headquarters in Vienna. Emphasis is placed on the third and fourth chapter. Third chapter characterizes the national cultures from the perspective of cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars. Fourth chapter is purely practical. It consists of conclusions of the in-depth interviews conducted with employees of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations. The content of interviews follows the structure of cultural dimensions of Hofstede and Trompenaars and places questions into the working environment of the Permanent Missions to the UN. These findings are at the end of the work compared with the approaches defined by the third chapter.