How to talk to an expatriate

ABSTRACT

Fueled by increasing global mobility, there is an ever-growing need for expatriates. This increasing demand poses many challenges for organizations to motivate their employees to successfully complete international assignments. This study addresses this issue by offering a new perspective on how effective leader communication may serve as a tool to increase expatriates’ cross-cultural motivation and boost their chances of success. All three dimensions of motivating language are proposed to have the ability to enhance an expatriate’s cross-cultural intrinsic motivation, as well as his or her cross-cultural self-efficacy. The implications of the framework, as well as future research, are discussed.     

Singapore Airlines to Fly A380 to Beijing Due to Olympics Demand

Customers will enjoy exhilarating sporting action,exciting moments when they fly with Singapore Airlines during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. To satisfy higher demand on its flights during the of the Olympic     

Wholesale Oil Market to Open to Foreigners

The government plans to heavily invest in coal liquefaction plants in the next five to 10 years as part of efforts to reduce its dependence on highpriced oil imports, the China Oilnews reported February 9, citing the country＇s top economic planning agency.     

China to Be Alert to Four Uncertainties

Stock market crash is really coming? On August 8,affected by the downgrading of the U.S.sovereign credit rating and other negative factors,the Shanghai stock market dropped over a hundred points intraday, falling below 2,500 points just like what it did a year ago,and individual shares collectively reached decline limit. Asia-Pacific stock markets also suffered Black Monday,with a num-     

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最近．受大自然地板和美迪亚地板的委托,我们联纵智达咨询机构组成了两个专家组对辽宁、北京、天津、山东、四川、湖北、湖南、厂东等10省市的40多个省会城市、地市级城市、县区级城市的各种类型的几百家建材市场、建材超市、建材专卖店进行了大规模的调研与走访。     

The key to marketing to older consumers

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Better to shop than to vote?

This paper begins by reflecting on the current generalised political apathy signalled by low voter turnout and falling party membership. It would appear that people are exercising political choices not at the ballot box but by means of consumer activism. Corporations respond to consumer pressure in a way that governments do not, and are gradually assuming the role of global political actors. But this is a dangerous state of affairs for several reasons. In the first place, social welfare can never be the core activity of corporations. Corporate social motives are commercial, and there is a danger that their social policy decisions will be driven by the logic of the market place rather than social need. Recession, for instance, will curtail their social responsiveness, as will decisions to relocate. It is also the case that partnerships between governments and corporates run the risk of removing checks on the growth and abuse of corporate power. And finally, what price does society have to pay for the growth of corporate benevolence?     

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文章从介绍美元的历史及现状入手,揭示美元贬值的历史原因,如何成功应对美元贬值及美元未来走势不确定性可能对我国经济产生的影响,确保我国经济持续快速健康的发展,是值得做进一步研究和探讨的问题.     

China Looks to Argentina to Grow Food

It might sound perverse for a Chinese company to go halfway round the globe to grow soya and other crops on unproductive land in a dry corner of Argentina.     

企业要学会借船出海

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The New Globalisation: From Too Big to Fail to Too Intertwined to Decouple

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How to Encourage Customers to Use Legal Software

This study attempts to identify customer retention strategies for legal software and discusses their effectiveness for three consumer groups (stayers, dissatisfied switchers, and satisfied switchers). Although previous studies propose several antipirating strategies, they do not discuss how to enhance customer intentions to use legal software, which is crucial for software companies. The authors provide four generic retention strategies developed from both antipiracy and customer loyalty literature. The results indicate lower-pricing, legal, communication, and product strategies all enhance customer purchase intentions toward legal software. The lower-pricing strategy is more useful for stayers and dissatisfied switchers, and the communication strategy is most useful for dissatisfied switchers. Both the legal and product strategies have similar impacts on purchase intentions across the three segments. From a firm perspective, a product strategy is most worthwhile and useful across all segments.     

China＇s largest land port exports wood productions to US

Kazakh airline Air Astana would begin new services between the central Asian country＇s capital and northwest China＇s Urumqi City early next month, the company said on June 23.     

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为应对国际上的反倾销等贸易摩擦,广东省必须把目光投向更远的视野范围,更高的目标层次,顺应经济发展的客观规律,加大对外投资力度;将以“比较优势”和“要素禀赋”不同而形成的传统的产业间贸易模式,逐步向产业内贸易为主转移;继续扩大进口和内需,从根本上改变“以出口为导向”的单一模式;在优化有形产品进出口的同时,大力促进文化产品、教育产品、科技产品、专利产品、旅游产品、物流产品、金融产品等等无形产品的出口。     

全国政协委员、中国进出口银行行长李若谷表示——继续为船舶工业做好金融后盾

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