International Business Administration Cultural Diversity Professor: Hans Hahn Summer Semester 2014 Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 10.06.2014 Soraya A. Suarez I. Register Number: 969800 Darmstädter Landstr. 64 60598 Frankfurt Tel: 0176- 708 59654 E-mail: sorayasuarez@gmail.com Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Culture 3 3. Colombia 5 4. Cultural Models and Cultural Dimensions 8 4.1 Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 9 4.1.1. Power Distance Index 10 4.1
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is another fundamental issue for any society‚ to which a range of solutions can be found. The IBM studies revealed that (a) women’s values differ less among societies than men’s values; (b) men’s values from one country to another contain a dimension from very assertive and competitive and maximally different from women’s values on the one side‚ to modest and caring and similar to women’s values on the other. The assertive pole has been called ’masculine’ and the modest‚ caring pole ’feminine’
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of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt
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effectively is challenging. One notable challenge appears to be the correlation between the inherent cultural background (see footnote) of a mentor/mentee (see footnote) and the necessary characteristics and qualities required by a mentor/mentee‚ as recognized and generally accepted by informed research‚ to make such a program successful. Although many researchers discuss the challenges of cross-cultural mentoring (see Shore et al‚ 2008. St Claire-Oswald‚ 2007)‚ my aim is to draw attention to the challenges
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Cultural Diversity in the Workforce Cultural diversity in the workforce has both advantages and disadvantages. Just like anything implemented in business‚ there are always things that are great in one perspective and of course things that are not going to work well in every situation. An example of this is resolving conflicts in the workforce due to cultural diversity. What can a company do to resolve conflicts in the workforce because of cultural diversity? There are‚ however‚ things
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Cultural dimensions and dilemmas Culture is a way of life evolved and is jointly owned by a group of people and passed from generation to generation. culture formed of many complex elements‚ including religious and political systems‚ customs‚ languages‚ tools‚ clothing‚ buildings‚ and works of art. Culture also divide by two that is material and non material culture. Material cultural like something that equipment on living like house such as longhouses at Sarawak‚ Eskimo. Non material culture
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Understanding Hofstede’s 5 Cultural Dimensions Geert Hofstede devoted over a decade to researching cultural differences and developed an internationally recognized model of cultural dimensions. There are five main dimensions of culture that serve as a guide to understanding intercultural communications‚ business‚ and effective social exchange. The five dimensions are Power Distance‚ Individualism‚ Masculinity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and Long-Term Orientation and were developed to provide a method
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Hofstede Cultural dimensions: India is a vast country known for its diversified culture and traditions. The unique characteristic of India is its “unity in diversity”. In India Relationships and feeling plays a larger role in decisions. Indians tend to take larger risks with a person whose intentions they trust. Thus‚ one’s credibility and trustworthiness are critical in negotiating a deal. Indians are ‘polychronic’ people‚ ie they tend to deal with more than one task at the same time. Indians are
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Mark A. Grant IB: Psychologie HL Learning Outcome: • Examine the role of two cultural dimensions on behavior. Introduction: • To begin with culture as stated by Matsumoto (2004) is a dynamic system of rules containing attitudes‚ values‚ beliefs‚ norms and behaviors. There are a variety of different ways in which to interpret culture‚ such as the perception of food or the way in which people in a particular culture dress. This in a sense is the “surface culture” of a specific country; the
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