Cultural Assimilation and Organizational Assimilation

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1) What is cultural assimilation?

2) What are some ideologies of cultural assimilation?

3) Does your country practice the Melting pot ideology or Cultural pluralism or something else?

4) What are some pros and cons to the Melting pot ideology?

5) What are some pros and cons to Cultural pluralism?

6) What do you think is the relationship between assimilation and globalization?

7) What are some minorities that have assimilated or not assimilated to your national culture?

8) What is organizational assimilation?

9) Do you think there is a relationship between cultural assimilation and organizational assimilation? Do the groups that are classified as none assimilated minorities in Table 1 in question 7 online do well in organizations in their home countries? 10) Do you think there is a relationship between organizational assimilation and effective communication in an organization? 11) Do you think the nationality of a worker affects organizational assimilation? When I joined a university in Taiwan, I was taught the school song in Chinese as part of my new faculty orientation. I do not nor have I ever learned Chinese, is this relevant? What do you think of this practice?

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12) Below is an edited new faculty orientation schedule for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Can you please adapt the schedule below for usage at your Asian university? At the end of the orientation, the faculty should be closer to the goal of organizational assimilation. The new faculty will be foreign nationals from Western countries: 8:30 to 9:00 AM, Registration (Coffee and light breakfast) 9:00 to 9:10 AM, Opening Remarks Samuel Allen Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Chair of the Faculty 9:10 to 9:20 AM, Presidents Welcome 9:20 to 10:00 AM, Overview of the Institute Chris A. Kaiser Provost 10:00 to 11:00 AM, Transition to Faculty Life at MIT Georgia Perakis Professor, Sloan School of Management Panel facilitator 11:00 to 11:15 AM, Coffee Break 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM, Teaching and Learning at MIT Daniel Hastings Dean for Undergraduate Education Panel facilitator 12:30 to 1:40 PM, Lunch with Department Heads/Deans Stata Center, 32-G401 (Faculty lunch room, next to the R&D Pub) 1:45 to 2:45 PM, You and Your Students 2:45 to 3:00 PM, Coffee Break 3:00 to 4:00 PM, How to Set-up and Manage a Lab / Research Group 4:00 to 4:30 PM, Overview of Administrative Resources 5:30 to 7:00 PM, Presidents Reception