America culture - Economy

1. By:
Nguyễn Thị Thùy
Vũ Thị Hồng
Bùi Thúy Nga
Nguyễn Thị Yến

2. OUTLINE
Business Institutions
American Business
Structures
American Business
Heroes
American Business in
the Global market place

3. AMERICAN BUSINESS
Overview
Institutions
Business

4. Definition
• Business to Americans is: private & profit
• Directly or indirectly owned and operated by private individuals
(or group) to make a profit
• Not all business are private

5. Business institutions
• More prestige in American society than any other organization
• Businesses are more efficient and better-run then the federal
government
WHY?

6. Business Institutions
Reason
Dream of
Richness
Competition

7. Competition
Business Institutions
• Americans’ view: business is competitive
• Competition is seen as the major source of
progress & prosperity
• Competition is not only a value but protects:
 The values of individual freedom
“When the going gets tough, the
tough gets going”
 The values of equality of opportunity
 Encouraging hard work

8. Dream of getting rich
Business Institutions
• Business is seen as benefiting the
nation through competition
• Careers in business offer the best opportunity for the ambitious individual to
become wealthy

9. The Characteristics of American business
Business Institutions
• Business of America is: private & profit
• Business institutions possess the great
prestige for 2 reason:
 The ideal of competition
 Dream of getting rich

10. Business Structures
Several Characteristics in common
Employers Employees
CEO of an American
Organization
Accountability in the
Company

11. Business Structures
The Relationship between Employers and Employees

12. Business Structures
Transferable skills – the key to future success

13. Business Structures
CEO of an American Organization

14. Business Structures
CEO of an American Organization

15. Business Structures
Accountability in the Company

16. Accountability in the Company
Business Structures

17. The Organization
man or woman
as hero
The Entrepreneur
as hero
Business StructuresAmerican Business Heroes

18. Business Structures
 Entrepreneurs often began as common people- become “self-made”
millionaires
The Entrepreneur as hero
 They succeed in building something great out of nothing
American Business Heroes

19. American Business Heroes
The hero rises from “rags to riches” and
fulfills the American Dream
The Entrepreneur as hero
A land of equality of opportunity

20.  Entrepreneurs appeal to most Americans are strong dislike of submitting
to higher authority
The Entrepreneur as hero
American Business Heroes
 Entrepreneurs often began as common people- become
“self-made” millionaires
 They succeed in building something great out of nothing

21. The Entrepreneur as hero
American Business Heroes
Started Apple
Computer in his garage
Developed Microsoft
into a global giant
A self-made billionaire

22. American Business Heroes
The Entrepreneur as hero

23. American Business Heroes
The Entrepreneur as hero

24. The Entrepreneur as hero
American Business Heroes

25. American Business Heroes
The organization man or woman as hero
They are role models of success in American society
 Run the business that are already established by others
 Do not have a strong hero image as entrepreneurs

26. American Business Heroes
The organization man or woman as hero
Lee Iacocca ( October 15, 1924)
 Chairman of Chrysler Corporation in
1979
 The King of bankruptcy
 He is ranked #5 among 25 business
leaders in American

27. American Business
in the global market
The changing
American Workforce
AMERICAN BUSINESS

28. American Business in the global market
• Example :
 entire car was built in the US
In the past
• The operation : took place
almost entirely in the US.

29. • The US is the world’s largest importer and exporter
• American : a part of larger global economy
American Business in the global market
 Most America’s television set, cameras, typewriters
from foreign companies

30. A General Motors car
• Total : $20,000
 $6,000 to South Korea
 $3,500 to Japan
 $1,500 to Germany
 $800 to Taiwan, Singapore, Japan
 $500 to Britain
 $100 to Ireland, Barbados

31. • a consumer society looking for goods from over of the world
The single largest market in the world

32. American becomes the global market
 Investing abroad
 Of the world’s 100 most
valuable brands, 62 are
American

36. The changing American workforce
• Many changes have taken place in term of sex, race, job’s
attitude..

37. In the past
The changing American workforce
• White man: dominated American business
• Women : prevented by the glass ceiling
• Women , minorities: earn less money than men for doing the same
work
• Job’s attitude: job first, family second

38. • Women and minorities: increased their presence
• Women : entrepreneurs
The changing American workforce

39. Workforce 2000
Non whites, women, immigrants: 5/6 of net
addition to the workforce
White males: 15%
Foreign born worker
Multi-cultural workforce

40. SUMMARY
Business Institutions
American Business
Structures
American Business
Heroes
American Business in
the Global market