Part I – The Art of Crossing Cultures 1. What is a cultural incident? According to Storti‚ there are Type I and Type II incidents. Describe each with a specific cross-cultural example. Type 2 are those incidents where the expat’s behavior confuse‚ frustrates‚ or otherwise puts off someone from another culture. In the first instance the expat is the "victim‚" if you perpetrator. In both cases‚ incidentally‚ it is the expat who suffers the most. A cross-cultural encounter‚ by
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Influence of Social Culture and Industry Culture on Organizational Culture Niloofar Namjoofard Global Challenges B7521 Argosy University Fall I‚ 2012 Dr. Nkemeh Relationship Between Social Culture‚ Industry Culture and Organizational Culture According to Briscoe & Schuler global organizations try to offer products and services with lowest costs‚ highest quality and shortest time of delivery to wherever demand is sufficient. They provide the resources from wherever the
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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Organizational Culture Analysis Lauri Simmons BUS610: Organizational Behavior October 15‚ 2012 Every society has a culture that drives their core values‚ beliefs‚ and actions. Culture provides a social system and creates a sense of identity (Baack‚ 2012). Within each culture are multiple subcultures. Subcultures‚ according to Baack (2012) differentiate a subgroup from the larger group to which it belongs. This also holds true for all organizations. Baack (2012) describes three levels
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Report 1 – Culture and Consumer Behavior Table of contents 1.1 Cover Page ……………………………………………………………………….......……1 1.2 Table of contents ……………………………………………………………..……………2 1.3 Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………..3 2.0 Culture and CB 2.1 Definitions of culture and consumer behavior………………………………….…………..4 2.2 Discussion of the relationship between culture and CB…………………………………….4 2.3 Examples of the relationship between culture and CB……………………
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Shiraev and Levy (2017) defined culture as “a set of attitudes‚ behaviors‚ and symbols shared by a group of people and usually passed down from one generation to the next (p.4)‚ which extended my own understanding of culture beyond that of a familial background. I simply thought that‚ culturally wise‚ I was just a German/American; my mom was a first generation from German and my father was a many generation from who knows where. I have fondness for both the German flag‚ as well as the American flag
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“Organisational culture comprises the deep‚ basic assumptions and beliefs‚ as well as the shared values that define organisational membership‚ as well as the members’ habitual ways of making decisions….” Schein’s Model Organisational culture is a set of values‚ beliefs and norms that influence the organisation members’ interaction and glue the organisation together. According to Schein’s (1992) model of culture; there are three levels of culture: artefacts‚ espoused values and basic underlying assumptions
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Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Culture is a hot topic. Scholars (Fukoyama‚ Huntington‚ to mention but two) disagree about whether this is the end of history or the beginning of a particularly nasty chapter of it. <br> <br>What makes cultures tick and why some of them tick discernibly better than others is the main bone of contention. <br> <br>We can view cultures through the prism of their attitude towards their constituents : the individuals
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we want to experience different cultures? For some the answer is‚ they do not. They do not want to step out of their comfort zone or maybe have not had the opportunity to experience a real cross-cultural experience. I think if they realized how much these experiences could enrich them; they may have a change of heart. These experiences broaden our view of the world around us and even how we think about ourselves. They can help us except the differences in cultures and make us more tolerant to others
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experience” as I am exposed to a completely foreign culture and challenged to adapt myself to it but the learning process of this new culture has greatly excited me. At the beginning‚ I inevitably experienced a certain amount of cultural shock‚ given the vast difference between Vietnamese culture and American culture. Cultural shock is a state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural misunderstanding. One incident that gave rise to my cultural shock happened when people I hardly know acted too friendly
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