At the Customs Gate of Your Country's Busiest International Airport

question 26

Essay

At the customs gate of your country's busiest international airport, two people are arriving as landed immigrants.As an immigrant support worker, you are tasked with determining how best to allocate resources in helping different immigrants.To do that, you must first determine how successfully each person will be at acculturating.Looking at the files for the landed immigrants, you see that Grace is coming from the United States, a country that is very similar to your country.On the other hand, Cecilia is coming from Mongolia, a country that is very dissimilar to your country.Based on the concept of cultural distance, draw the expected acculturation pattern (feelings toward host culture over time) for each person, assuming that both people do acculturate.For the purpose of this question, the heterogeneity/homogeneity of the host culture is irrelevant.

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Definitions:

Controllable Variance

The difference between actual and budgeted figures that is within the control of a manager, used for assessing performance.

Controllable Variance

The difference between actual costs and budgeted costs that management has the power to influence or control through decisions and actions.

Variable Factory Overhead

Costs in manufacturing that vary with the level of production output, such as utilities and materials used in the production process.

Controllable Variance

The difference between actual budgeted costs and the controllable costs within a budget period.