Two Basic Dimensions of Leadership 1. Task Orientation( initiating structure) Task orientation relates to Blake and Mouton’s concern for production. It is the quality of a manager who maintains strong discipline to task completion and deadlines. A highly task-oriented manager maintains focus on timing and quality of work and‚ at the extreme‚ can lose sight of the importance of showing consideration for employees. A leader with strong orientation often gets labeled as an authoritarian leader
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Theme: High and Low Context Cultures Task 1: Edward Hall’s theory of high- and low-context culture helps us better understand the powerful effect culture has on communication. A key factor in his theory is context. This relates to the framework‚ background‚ and surrounding circumstances in which communication or an event takes place. High-context cultures (including much of the Middle East‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ and South America) are relational‚ collectivist‚ intuitive‚ and contemplative. This
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Sociological criticism examines literature in the political‚ economic and cultural context in which it can be either written or received. It looks at the sociological status of the author to evaluate how the profession of the writer in a milieu affected what was written. It analyzes the social content of literary works culturally‚ economically and politically. Sociological criticism also examines the role the audience has in shaping literature. A view of Shakespeare might look at the economic position
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The Five Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Business had been evolve seen the beginning of human civilization. Today business has evolved into an age of globalization‚ which is every countries in the world has connected together as one enormous network .This Globalizations phenomenon also presented many difficulties of doing business between country to country especially doing business outside of home country. One of the biggest problems is the different of the cultures such as customs‚ tradition
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Books by Edward T. Hall THE SILENT L A N G U A G E THE HIDDEN DIMENSION H A N D B O O K FOR PROXEMIC RESEARCH THE FOURTH DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE: The Impact of Building on Man’s Behavior (with Mildred Reed Hall) THE DANCE OF LIFE: The Other Dimension of Time HIDDEN DIFFERENCES: Doing Business with the Japanese (with Mildred Reed Hall) BEYOND CULTURE ANCHOR BOOKS EDITIONS‚ 1969‚ 1990 Copyright © 1966‚ 1982 by Edward T. Hall All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
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Hofstede and Trompenaars compared Of these seven value dimensions‚ two reflect closely the Hofstede dimensions of Collectivism/Individualism and to a lesser extent power distance. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner’s communitarianism/individualism value orientation seems to be virtually identical to Hofstede’s Collectivism/Individualism. • Their achievement/ascription value orientation‚ which describes how status is accorded‚ appears to be linked to Hofstede’s power distance index‚ at
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Dimensions of Religions Religion involves some acknowledgement of the supernatural. Therefore: communism/utilitarianism are NOT religions Various dimensions of religious beliefs -Agentic VS. Communal -Agentic: free agent. -Connection with God on a personal level -e.g. Jesus died for MY sins -Communal -Connection with God on a community level -e.g. Covenant made by God with the Israelites -Catholicism: relatively communal -Catholics have agentic aspects because of the personal connection
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doi:10.5559/di.20.4.05 DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL INNOVATION CULTURE IN CROATIA Content Validity of Hofstede ’s Dimensions Jasminka LAŽNJAK Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ Zagreb UDK: 316.42(497.5):001 008(497.5) Izvorni znanstveni rad Primljeno: 8. 4. 2011. Faced with the challenge to increase the level of innovation in science and technology many societies have developed a national innovation system as a form of public policy programs. If innovative culture is crucial
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Trompenaars’s Dimensions Universalism vs. Particularism Universalism is the belief in: rules or laws that can be applied to everyone; agreements and contracts are used as the basis for doing business; rules are used to determine what is right; contracts should not be altered. Particularism is the belief in: placing emphasis on friendships and looking at the situation to determine what is right or ethically acceptable deals are made based upon friendships; agreements are changeable;
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Cultural Criticism in Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi (1883) -Throughout “life on the Mississippi‚ Twain seeks to delay time‚ to make it pause long enough to make some sense of it‚ even as he realizes that detah will end all speculation. -He writes of his day as a pilot that “time drifted smoothly and prosperously on‚ and I supposed – and hoped – that I was going to follow the river the rest of my days‚ and die at the wheel when my mission was ended. But by and by the war came‚ commerce was
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