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SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT


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BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

David and Blomstorm observe business as

social institution, performing a social mission

and having broad influence on the way people

live and work together.

Nowadays business is viewed as a subsystem

of the total social system.

Three ideas added with social system to view a

business from ecological point of view.


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The three ideas are:

Values: values drive mission of business, thenation in which business is located, the type of

industry in which it is active and the nature of

employees

Viability: the drive for live and growPublic Visibility: to what extent the

organizations activity are known to persons

outside the organization. Public image means

the perception of public for the organization.


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PROFESSIONALISATION

A professional is one who possessessystematic knowledge and skill toperform certain responsibility functionwith authority and who is bound bycertain ethic in the use of knowledge andskill.

Growth of management studies and

training contributing the growing socialorientation of business.

They makes business more efficient,dynamic and social responsibility


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BUSINESS ETHICS

It refers to the system of moralprinciples and rules of conduct appliedto business.

There neither is a separate ethics ofbusiness.

Individual ethics , behavior drives ethicsof business.

Moral values and moral education welearn from family, school, friend circle,

etc. Trade association formulate code of

conduct for their members which alsocontain code of ethics.


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BUSINESS AND CULTURECulture is the basic determinant of personality andorganisation. It defines,

Human product of social interaction, customs,attitudes, etiquette etc.

patterns for meeting biological and social needs

Symbolic quality of human being

ELEMENTS:Knowledge and beliefs

Ideals

Preferences


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Knowledge and beliefs


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Ideals

RewardPunishment


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Preferences

A culture tends to provide the standards of

tests in specific lines of human activity.

The yellow and sweet corn, is afavorite snack. In South East

Asia, a stir fry mixed vegetables

including baby corn or candle

corn is a favorite side dish. And

corn pudding is a much loved

dessert.

In Italy people thought of

corn as PIG -FOOD


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RELIGION

Hindu

Marriage

Christan

Marriage


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ETHNODOMINATION

Punjabis in

automobileChinese for

food France for

Cheese


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LANGUAGES

Problem caused by languages;

Fords Fiera in Spanish means ugly

old women.

Chervolets brand NOVA in Spanishmean it doesnotgo.

Problems related to translation:

Pepsi-Colas slogan come alivetraslated as come out of the grave.


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TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

AND SOCIAL CHANGE

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