ITALY CULTURE IMPACTS ON ITS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
ITALY CULTURE IMPACTS ON ITS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. The Background of Italy 1
2.1 Languages of Italy 1
2.2 Education of Italy 1-2
2.3 Religion of Italy 2
2.4 Social Structure of Italy 2
2.5 Political Ideology of Italy 2
2.6 Economic Ideology of Italy 3
3. Analysis culture of the country 3
3.1 History of Italy 3-4
3.2 Geography of Italy 4-5
4. Recommendation for doing Global Business in Italy 5
4.1 Respect Different cultural customs 5
4.2 Well Cross Culture Management 5
4.3 Follow the religion characteristics of Roman Catholic 5
5. Conclusion 6
6. References 7
1. Introduction
This is an individual assignment to discuss culture characteristics and its effects to a business environment. Thus, this assignment will show the understanding of the culture importance, and providing the methods for cross culture management. For the full-scale of culture application to business environment cognitive competencies, this assignment will discuss the culture characteristics, analyse the culture for business operation, study the culture synthesis, and then give recommendations according to the applications of business environment in particular. According the requirement of this assignment, I have chosen the country of Italy to complete the tasks of this assignment.
2. The Background of Italy
To understand the culture of Italy better, this part is to introduce the source of the Italy background in details. Thus, this part will illustrate the language, education, religion, social structure, political, and economic philosophy of Italy.
2.1 Languages of Italy
Italian is the official language in Italy. Never the less, the 96% of the native Italians speak Italian. For these partial of native Italians, their main mother tongue are including German, Catalan, Greek, French, Slovenian, Albanian, Corsican, Cimbrian, Bavarian, Walser and Croatian. However,
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. The Background of Italy 1
2.1 Languages of Italy 1
2.2 Education of Italy 1-2
2.3 Religion of Italy 2
2.4 Social Structure of Italy 2
2.5 Political Ideology of Italy 2
2.6 Economic Ideology of Italy 3
3. Analysis culture of the country 3
3.1 History of Italy 3-4
3.2 Geography of Italy 4-5
4. Recommendation for doing Global Business in Italy 5
4.1 Respect Different cultural customs 5
4.2 Well Cross Culture Management 5
4.3 Follow the religion characteristics of Roman Catholic 5
5. Conclusion 6
6. References 7
1. Introduction
This is an individual assignment to discuss culture characteristics and its effects to a business environment. Thus, this assignment will show the understanding of the culture importance, and providing the methods for cross culture management. For the full-scale of culture application to business environment cognitive competencies, this assignment will discuss the culture characteristics, analyse the culture for business operation, study the culture synthesis, and then give recommendations according to the applications of business environment in particular. According the requirement of this assignment, I have chosen the country of Italy to complete the tasks of this assignment.
2. The Background of Italy
To understand the culture of Italy better, this part is to introduce the source of the Italy background in details. Thus, this part will illustrate the language, education, religion, social structure, political, and economic philosophy of Italy.
2.1 Languages of Italy
Italian is the official language in Italy. Never the less, the 96% of the native Italians speak Italian. For these partial of native Italians, their main mother tongue are including German, Catalan, Greek, French, Slovenian, Albanian, Corsican, Cimbrian, Bavarian, Walser and Croatian. However,
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