Workaholism From a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Corruption from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

This paper views corruption as activity that tends to undermine a cultural system. Because cultures operate in very different ways, different activities are corrupting in different parts of the world. The paper analyzes real-life situations in Japan, Taiwan, India, China, North America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Korea to distinguish actions that structurally undermine a cultural ...

A Cross-Cultural Perspective

CULTURAL ISSUES were included, although in a limited fashion, in the diagnostic manuals ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) and DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). As Fabrega (1995) points out, the study of the cultural sciences as they pertain to psychiatry offers a necessary corrective to the increasing impersonality and reductionism that has come to characterize the neurobi...

Death: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Crisis management simulations: Lessons learned from a cross- cultural perspective

Emergency crisis management is a highly dynamic and complex domain. It challenges performance and increases reliance on information, technology, people and context. Crisis events are something to which all nations must respond, however processes, policies, and responses to those events may be culturally defined. Culture, described as a set of characteristics, values and behaviors manifested wit...

A Literary Anthroponomastics of Three Selected African Novels: A Cross Cultural Perspective

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...