B. People who are born or grew up in the same country tend to share similar cultural characteristics

C. Stereotypes are formed by mapping and comparing common characteristics of managers and employees in various regions.

D. in management, on IBM’s operations in 70 countries around the world. Getting answers to 32 statements from over 116,000 questionnaires.

E. Panama, Mexico, Thailand, France

F. Indonesia, Denmark, Australia, UK, US

G. Members of society feel uncomfortable with risk and uncertainty.

H. Emphasize flexibility and informality rather than bureaucracy

I. People are supposed to take care of themselves and be emotionally independent from others.

J. Take care of themselves

K. Value attributed to achievement, assertiveness and material success.

L. Achievement, assertiveness and material success

M. Stereotypical feminine values of relationships, modesty, caring, quality of life

N. The survey covered employees from just one firm, IBM.

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e - more autocratic leadership and less employee participation.

f - less autocratic leadership and more employee participation.

g - is the degree to which members of society feel uncomfortable with risk and uncertainty.

h - emphasize flexibility and informality rather than bureaucracy.

i - emotionally independent

j - take care of themselves

k - value of a society are success, money and material things

l - opposed to the stereotypical feminine values 

m - the quality of life

n - the survey covered employees from just one firm, IBM.

+ Natural products are an important source of therapeutically effective medicines

+ More than 60% of the world’s human population relies on plant medicine for primary healthcare (Harvey 2000)

+ 39% of the 520 new drugs approved between 1983 and 1994 were natural products

+ Plants and microbes help to degrade chemical pollutants and organic waste, recycle nutrients.
- Agriculture: 

+ Approximately 60% of the world’s food supply comes from rice, wheat, and corn (Wilson 1988)

+ 20,000 plant species have been used by humans as food
- Leisure, culture and aesthetics:

Ecotourism: “In 1988 an estimated 157-236 million people took part in international ecotourism” (i.e. in countries of which they were not national)
- Business and industry:

+ Providing raw materials and natural assets for businesses

+ Many businesses depends on biodiversity as a resource

+ Ecotourism: 
> Contributing between US$93 and US$233 billion to national incomes (Filion et al. 1994)
> 1998, US$1 billion expenditures on just whale-watching (Hoyt 2000)

The most important current threats to biodiversity (only includes only the examples and statistics that can be used to back arguments
- Depletion of resources:
+ More than 75% of the food supply of the human population is obtained, directly or indirectly, from just 12 kinds of plants

+ Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. 

+ In 1988, an estimated 157 to 236 million people took part in international ecotourism.