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ISLA 210 Lecture Notes - Marjane Satrapi, Taha Hussein, Al-Azhar University

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19 Jul 2012
School
McGill University
Department
Islamic Studies
Course
ISLA 210
Professor
Laila Parsons

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The loss of palestine and their continuing plight as refugees, and the fact that a holy site in islam is in jerusalem. Egypt is one of the most important muslim cultural centre home to al azhar. Islamic education- howzehs, al-zahar for muslim textual tradition. Napolean"s invasion, his experts were the first people to map the building of the nile, for the. In iran, the effects of the shah"s westernizations mini skirts and dams but also education, movies. *passage in mantle where ali hashemi is walking though tehran and look at the posters of scantily clad women, etc. Even the construction seemed lewd shows the sense of an invasion of a different culture. Arab spring- effect of the west"s support of authoritarianism. Mossedat coup- an example of us and britain stepping in to eliminate democracy and put in a pro-western leader. Linked to the new secular education in the region (ex.

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TAX AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT

Discussion

In this Unit, you will evaluate and address culture anddiversity in the workplace. Before continuing on to answer thequestions, review the following PREZI™ presentation: “Understandingthe Cultural Dimensions of an Organization.”

Read the article “Getting a Read on Corporate Culture”

Read the information on IFRS.

Additionally, your internship/externship employer should haveprovided you with an employee manual that outlines theorganizational policies and procedures. An important part of anyemployee manual is the organization’s policy statement on cultureand diversity. If your internship/externship employer does not havea policy statement with regard to culture and diversity, you willneed to analyze the organization's position on culture anddiversity based on your experiences and observations.

Answer the following questions about your experiences andobservations at your internship/externship organization with regardto cultural literacy in personal and professional environments:

What are some basic dimensions that describe the culturalorientation of your externship employer organization?

What are some of the major characteristics of diversity in yourexternship employer organization?

What privacy issues impact stakeholders in your externshipemployer organization?

Based on your observations, are there motivational differencesbetween employees across cultures in your externship employerorganization?

Be sure to discuss the following topics within your answerpost:

Apply cultural literacy in personal and professionalenvironments.

Respect for other cultures

Communicate and adopt across cultures

Impact of actions on you and others

Aware of the value of and limitations

Sources:

The Society for Experiential Learning and Development (2012).Understanding the cultural dimensions of an organization [PreziPresentation]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.seld.us/understanding-the-cultural-dimensions-of-an-organization/

Career Arc Group (2012). Getting a read on corporate culture.Retrieved fromhttp://www.internships.com/student/resources/workplace/the-first-few-days/getting-a-read-on-corporate-culture