Metaphor

the task for this week was to make a creative metaphor for a product in an organization.

the product that i choose is a chocolate candy bar with a sort of coffee flavor, i choose this candy because it focus on a main typical product in which Colombia is identify. "The Colombian flavor in your hand", this metaphor means that any foreigner can be transporter to Colombia with this candy, also this means that the candy has to be really, really good, because if not, can do more harm to the image.

some relevant strategies coud be to make promotions on a kind of lifestyle with coffee and introducing this product like a daily base use, sort of the use of coffee in the morning in most of the world places, also another strategy is to put some photos of Colombian people eating the candy, and not just Colombian, but powerfull and influential people in the world enjoying this candy, such as singers, models, politicians, and so on, so pretty much the strategy is to make the people think that is a product that we should consume in a regular basis.

Comments

This task was about making some comments, you can see it in this pages.

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i signed has milo, enjoy

Pygmalion Effect

This next task is about the pygmalion effect, for those that didn't, pygmalion effect is where a person put an expectation on someone and this person fullfill the expectation. one example we can find it in this Page,

where a teacher put the expectations in a student, and by do it that, the teacher push more harder in his learning getting him to a better development of his skills, and fullfiling the prophecy of his teacher.

but there is also a bad side, in the managerial aspect , when the boss gets a phygmalion effect in a certain worker, and this one achieved little goals, but the manager gets excited and reward him for little advance.


Bibliography
Takao Inamori, Farhad Analoui, "Beyond Pygmalion effect: the role of managerial perception", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 29 Iss: 4, pp.306 – 321. 
Rosenthal,R. & Jacobson,L. (1968, 1992) Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development (Irvington publishers: New York)
 

Task 2

The question for today discuss is" With regard to Organizational behaviour, describe the main role that international business managers may play in the negotiation arena and the importance of developing cross cultural management skills".

A fundamental role of international negotiatiors is to achieve a good outcome in the negotiations, but is important the "know how" of dealing with different behaviors in a globalizated world, it's necesary to get to understand differents way of living, mainly with the hierarchy of the importance of some people,one type of people may focus in a more win-lose situation and the other one may think a win-win situation, also we have to take in count if the party is interested in a long term relationship or a one time negotiation; the religious believes of some cultures gives relevance to the way of behave, the proximity in some organizations, and the values that they gives a lot more of importance than us, and last but not least the importance of the vision of any organization when we are dealing whit them, because this will give us a better understanding of his actions, and the possible outcomes the may try to obtain in a negotiaton.

Is a must now days that a negotiator have to be multidiscplinary and have the knoweldge to get involved in cross cultural negotiation whitout interrupt in a offense way or treat the other party without respect, because of this i highly recommend before start any negotiation or make changes in a corporation in another part of the world that we don't know, to have a multicultural team, this will be the first step to get more knowledge and understanding of other cultures.

there is a link of a video of a cultural communication problem that may happend to us, enjoy.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrJTf97Ev8o&feature=related

Bibliography
Mead, Richard. 2004. International Management: Cross-Cultural Dimensions London: Blackwell Publishing. Chapter 1.

Interesting blogs

the first blog that i think is interesting is from Juan David Escobar, i read a little bit of entrances and it's cool for me because is just one average guy from Medellin, Antioquia and his name is Juan David Escobar.


one thing that got me was the videos and pictures that he post in many post making this more attractive from a creative perspective, also his opinions because can teach us a lot of his thoughts, dreams and problemas that he his facing or thinking.


The second blog that is pretty interesting in matters of environment is Colunazero is a brazilian log about the environment with a lot of history and articles, that tell us the current situation about the climate, some changes about the production or road of indrustries to provide a more green way to life in the planet.


And last but not least important is Freedomainradio is a blog with a lot of content, videos, comments, boards and even a chat, is cool because of all the material and the video interviews with a broad range of topics regarding themes from internet to advices for a job interview.