IOM International organization for migrtation.

This is a brief introduction of the IOM

International Organization for Migration (IOM),  established in 1951 and is an inter-governmental organization was initially established in Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to help resettle people displaced by the second world war.IOM manages migration issues and provide all kind of helps  for governments and for migrant as well  al over  the world.

Nowaday this organization has 127 members. and is allways willing  to help ensure the orderly and human management of migration, to promote on migration issues, international cooperation, also in  constant   assistance in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants needs, including refugees and internally displaced people. (IOM, 2010).

There are parts of the population than in general terms are changing their   dynamics in the migration terms . They were normally  used to migrate as accompanying their husbands and families, but they have  had a radically change now to single women as single mothers. This group of single women  constitutes a neuralgic part which needs special help since they are often located in very low paid jobs and are subjugated to sexual jobs in order to get money to support their families in the new country, this shows us the fact that  women migrants are in more risk to violation of human rights as they go through migration, more often than male migrants. In the violation of human rights, women migrants moreoften have to cross through  inhuman conditions of living, obtaining  hard not well paide works, with a clear increased in the matter of health risiks, as well as  the constant risk of physical violations produced by their bosses. 

The IOM is working actively in the search of the punish of the iligal migration chanels because this chaneles are leading every time more often with the human traffick. the result of this work have helped to create projects that are being implemented at regional and national level giving trainament and assistance to the authorities looking to reduce and finally get rid of this horrible problem.But, the aouthorities are not the only group which the IOM have been working with,  the society have been an important part on the development of the fight  against this cruel activity, taking an active position Furthermore, it has also created projects to work closely with the victims of human trafficking in their reintegration to normal life and in the dealing of the consequences left.

Some objectives of the IOM in the protection of th migrant women are:

- Addressing gendered forms of racism and xenophobia against women migrant

- Promotion of  the physical and mental health and well-being of women migrant workers.

-  Protecting women migrant workers from sexual and gender-based violence,
domestic violence, abusive labour practices and discrimination.

-  Research and data collection on women and international labour migration

Is important to have an wide knoledge and spread of that in all the countries specially in Latin American countries because this kind of issues are things that happens more often that we thing it really happens and always be aware of the way we are going to travel arround the world avoiding this types of dangers.  Be careful and protect your people!.

Hope you enjoy it!

Have a grat day.

Refferences 

http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp

 

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UBUNTU South Africa

Ubuntu philosophy is one of the practices more sucesfull inside south africa. this one offers good relations and comunity. " Im who i´m because of who all we are", says the activist Leymah Gbowe, meaning that a person with ubuntu is allways open and pacient with others and all the time trying to be as humanistic as possible
This philosophy can be applied to management based on generating a good working environment,foucused on increase de advantage and increase effectivity and eficienty.
It a strong and  positive to know that if native Ubuntu workers realize the objective the managers are willing to work with them and make great efforts to understand Ubuntu, they will be more pleaced  helping their bosses to achieve  the spected goals into the organization.

According to the philosophy of ubuntu, inside the organization appears close  interdependence; "a person is a person through others", it means that the independent work is not that important and do not have the kind of impact that the unit and teamwork have, (synergy). the fact that the organization succeed because of the joint work of all the members, creates motivation and tight relations, then everybody will trust each other  and then, they will act as a "family", they wont fell shy or not capable but the do will feel confident to talk and expressed what they think, what they are expecting fom thr otganization and what they want in order to improve thir work and achieve the goal.


As a conclution,  it isreally  important to show   that the nowadays organizations must  adapt themselves to the environment and culture in which they are working, and the most successful are those ones who can adapt to it better and faster. in order to achieve a sinergy and finally a dynamic work.

 

Hope you enjoy it!!

Refferences: 
 Mangaliso, P. (2001). Building competitive advantage from Ubuntu: Management lessons from South Africa. Academy of Management Executive
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Cross- Cultural Differences in Multinationals

Acording to we have seen on the reading by Thorne and Bartholomeu (2002) "The socio-cultural embeddedness of individual´s ethical reasoning in organization” which explain the four components of the influence on culture on individual´s ethical reasoning, today i´m going to explain some of this concepts and the possible reason to understand why this has to studied and who´s this lecture directed to.

The first concept is the Culture and the identification of an ethical dilemma, this sugguest us a cross- cultural difference in the degree of the Hostede´s dimension Individualism/Collectivisim because here starts a divergence of thougts in the dilemma about which interests are more important for the individual, his/her own´s or the interest of an organizatios. This divergence shows us a situation, in a national way for example, that the countries more individualistics tend more to a market self regulation or a government position like "do whatever you want, first your welfare". in the other hand, goverments with a more collectivistic posture, tends to be more tough in its regulation and often, participates in the market controling like giving more importance to the welfare of the nation.
In that way, if you as a multinational wants to stay longer in a country with high individualistic percentage, you shold try to create a close relationship with your employees making that they feel part of a big family  and making that  his/her expectatives goes according to the expectatives of the organization.

A second one but not less important concept is the Culture and ethical action, this model of ethical reasoning recognises that  someone´s ethical behavior is not always consistent with his/her ethical intention to act. Generally this concept is too tight with the dimension of High /low Confucianism  which shows how ethical actions may comply with ethical intentions. The fact  that the confucionism is linked with the respect of the relative emphasis on time, shows us that cultures with high confucianism (East cultures: China´s, Japan´s) are more willing to act with their ethical intentions and not seeing it as a constrains but as a way to keep the harmony  and not "lose face". but, individuals with high confusianism are seems to be more concerned about "saving face" than acting in an ethical way .

This paperwork has the objective of make the people perceive the influence of individual´s ethical reasoning and to highligths that the cultural orientations reflects different effects over several parts of the individual´s ethical reasoning. This research was made for multinational companies which were looking for mechanisms that may ensure a kind of "global compilance" . also to exhibit the importance of the effort that the companies have to do to underestand the ethical reasoning  with the aim of go toward the reach of the most apropriate mechanism to generate compilance to the ethical norms.
!!Is not an easy work!!


sorry my bloggers, but the past month i couldnt post due all the extense work i´ve had in the University. 
Hope you enjoy it!


refference:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2620447/The-SocioCultural-Embeddedness-of-Individuals-Ethical-Reasoning-in-Organizations-Crosscultural-Ethics

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"Smells like Medellin"

The product idea is the creation of some perfumes and lotions of different types of flowers grown here in Aburra valley and surroundings. the idea would be to create a strong mark with a high status niche and looking for puting medellin in the mouth of all people in the world, changing the perception from outside about medellin, from a violent and drugs maker city to a fashion "Metropolis".
 

 The designers decided to choose this metaphor because they realized the huge recognition that flowers from medellin and sourroundings have and they like to show a mix between the fresh of a beautiful nigth in medellin and the fresh smell of a flower and give them a stylized touch. is good to say that the diversity of flowers here, represent a huge potential in the business because those represent the diversity of the people of medellin






some strategies we are trying to implement looking for aquire big business partners:

• Offer them some exclusivity in the distribution in their own countries 
• Offer them a product with the higest standards of quality 
• The Marketing will be international so they wont have to invest big amounts of money in campains
• Being opend mind and allways listen for suggestions.

 


 Photos references
 1)http://mapigonestrebol.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8809F91CE49731A2!2424.entry


2) http://extaseetagonie.blogspot.com/

Collegues Blogs

Hi every one, this post is about the reads i´ve been doing on my collegues blogs and the coments i left there, all of them are about pygmalion effect,  hope you enjo it!! good luck.

1.  Daniela Marmolejo

2. Simon Franco

3. Maria Mercedes

4. Yvet

5. Julian Velasquez


see you soon!

Understanding Pygmalion Effect

There`s a lot of stories about how the boss critizises and complains about everithing someone do, but have you ever heard about the positive  feedback that brings when this one recognice the work and incentivates you to improve every day?.This is a reasonable way to understand the Pygmalion effect, which suggest that the perciever´s positive expactaition enhances the target performance, is one of the main topics discused in the past class, as one of the perception theories.

The positive influence  which could be result of positive expectations, is applied in many areas like bussines areas, militar world , in sports and even in education maters and that shows how this positive expectations can work in wide variety of situations
But, is important to have in mind that  inside  the perception process, pygmalion effect is not the only factor in the positive result of the subordinator development, it´s important as well, the perciever`s expectations and the both, subordinator and perciever´s, possible profits or welfare reached in the persuit of the objective.

In the globalaized organizational world, it is important to keep in mind the value of positive perceptions and encourage toward achieve the organizational goals.

Cultural Dimentions: the Geert Hofstede´s View

Hi every one, hope you´re having a great week. the first thing i want to say before starting this new  post, i would like to apologise for being absent during the past two weeks, i´ve been studing and doing other projects. ok let´s start.
Two weeks i had the privilege to go to a conference presented by Mr Nick B. Meyer which was called "Dealing with Cultural Differences", he exposed the ideas of the five cultural dimentions in a society, this 5D are the results  thof a study made by the Mr.Geert Hofstede, a successful writter of netherland on the cultural relations field. the 5D are:

• Power Distance
• Individualism
• Masculinity
• Uncertain avoidance
• Long Term Orientation

 Mr Meyer exposes that this dimentions are really important to understand and  have a more realistic notion of today´s globalized world, personally, i found two of this dimetions more important, without taking out importance of the other 3, Power Distance and Long Term Orientation.


Power Distance: This dimention says that in the different countries of the world, there is certain acceptance or rejection on the fact that the distribution of power is unequal and generally treated in a Hierachical way in wich the power is concentrated in the top and is spread in the other parts unequally. this kind of structures, are accepted in most of the work organizations,  some transnationals and in the countries structures.  Hofstede created a scale in order to percieve the acceptance or rejection of certain countries, as an example, USA has a puntuation of near 40, that means that there´s  no total rejection of power distance but  neither a total acceptance of this kind of structure. Russia in the other hand is arround 90, that means that is one of the countries with most acceptance of the Hierarchical structures.


Long Term Orientation: in the beggining, Hofstede developed just 4 dimentions but he wanted to do a distinction between east - west lifestyle, so he created a new dimention based on the confucian teaching, the dimention goes on how life is oriented based on the idea that the gratness in our results is more important than find the result we want.  also says that countries with LTO persevere more looking for slow results instead the search of inmediate results. this LTO dimetion, was studied just in 23 countries due the difficult of its develpement so was just made in 23 countries and foun that the countries of  Asia, generally are more LTO than the west countries.

to finish this post, i would like to show you one video tha my inercultural managemnt teacher shows in one class and i think could be a funny video to perceive the difference in East- West perception, in this case, China- Germany. 
Hope you enjoy it as i do! 
Have a great week


Perception differences West- East (Germany- China)









Refferences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede


http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/long-term-orientation/