Most anthropologists who work in the corporate environment do not use the title of anthropologist. There are currently over 200 anthropologists working in this field. The article then gave an account of one anthropologist's experience in the corporate environment. It concludes by saying what corporations think of the value that anthropologists add to the companies and that the role will continue to grow.
Anthropologist's experience is studying why people from few cultures learn best from lectures, even though others learn best through interactive learning. For example, Business English Language Immersion Training program builds a language skill that allows for communication between two parties where English may be a second language. This program also provides an awareness of each culture's business ethics. The results of anthropologist's work have helped professors, who train consultants working in 66 countries, be better teachers. However, the anthropologist used an anthropological methodology by listening in on classroom sessions and conducting interviews. From the information that anthropologist gathered, anthropologist observed that people from certain cultures are used to two ways communication in the classroom, although others just sit there silently while the professor lectures. One of the key terms that anthropologist used is communications, which are the transmission and reception of some stimulus or message. Anthropologist also shows some of the management development classes and also contributes to the training classes. Anthropologist's main areas of concentration for anthropological study include technique where sometimes a management team proposes an idea and at other times anthropologist will propose an idea. .
Corporate anthropologists often trail individual consumers in their home, at the office, or on shopping trips, to see them in the process of buying or using a particular item or service.
By examining the history of an organization, anthropologists can work to predict the company's future. ... Political science studies in an organization also play a very important role in that it gives us a way to study leadership roles and determine corporate policies. ...
Both the village and household can be considered corporate in that both control rights to territorial resources, acts as a unit when performing certain economic and ceremonial activities. ... Despite this corporate organization, membership in villages and households is constantly changing, and there is much movement of people between group to group. ... This is what the Kalapalo call otomo concept which is similar to the anthropologist's concept of kindred. ...
This is the classical view on mate selection, which is fueled by gender biases, but with changing times come changing needs such as technological and industrial advances, life style changes, newly developing family structure and changes in commercial and corporate realms. ... Anthropologist Anne Mayden Nicotera introduces the action principal: "Social behavior is structured and organized. ...
While Xerox ultimately did commercialize laser printing-bringing several billion dollars into the corporate coffers-it chose not to push most of PARC's personal computing prototypes into commercial development. ... So Thoman and Xerox Chairman Paul Allaire, who is Thoman's predecessor and now his successor as CEO, struggled to ensure that the high wattage in the corporate labs brightened Xerox's bottom line. ...
These problems were eventually solved such requirements as minimum wages, welfare, prescribed work conditions, organized workers, and regulation of corporate power. ... Some anthropologists even praise primitive culture for successfully enduring over the years, in their slow conservative patterns of change. ...
The modern discover that there are many different religions (worldviews) in the world (Anthropologist's participant observation teaches us this somber reality) (Wagner 1981: 4) and that their own religion (worldview) is not always correct (The Galileo's telescope is an epoch making incident). ...
Merton's influence has also been felt by historians of science, economists, political theorists, anthropologists, humanities, law, and the world of science (Cole, 2004, p.37). ... Corporate crimes, falsifying IRS forms, or drug dealers would be examples of innovators. ...
