Evaluation of culture background of Germany‚ Japan‚ and Ireland through Hofstede Cultural Dimension As professor Geert Hofstede put‚ "Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." Therefore‚ understanding different cultures in different countries is a significant issue for multinational enterprises‚ especially for the inevitable trend of globalization. As our project aims at analyzing the international expansion of
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Geert Hofstede defined that culture is "collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012a) Human culture derives from people’s background‚ education‚ gender and so on. Therefore‚ different people have various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first
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1. Introduction 2. Culture 3.1 Cross Cultural Analysis 3.2 Cultural distance 3. Different models of cross-cultural analysis 4. Hofstede dimensions to distinguish between cultures 5. Cross Cultural Analysis between India and The United States of America-Geert Hofstede’s Framework 6.3 Cross Cultural Analysis of India and The United States of America 6.4.1 Power Distance 6.4.2 Individualism 6.4.3 Masculinity
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Brief Theory Review There four dimensions are include in the Hofstede ’s studies (Hill‚ 2003). Power distance In one country‚ high power distance cultures could let inequalities grow over time into inequalities of power and wealth. By contrast‚ lower power distance tried to play down such inequalities in society as much as possible. The individualism versus collectivism It focuses on the degree the society reinforces individual or collective‚ achievement and interpersonal relationships. In the
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China and UK Candidate number: 294233 Word Count: 1695 Submitted to: Neale Richardson Abstract: This paper intends to explain the differences between China and the UK in commercial negotiations style by using Geert Hofstede’s Five Dimensions of National Culture and Edward Hall’s High Context and Low Context Cultures. This kind of different style mainly displays in the tactics of negotiation‚ decision making and the target of negotiation.
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Intercultural Communications have been of great interest to the Hofstede Centre for many years. In fact Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of culture have been the most widely disseminated of all theories. Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions are‚ “1) Power Distance‚ 2) Individualism or Collectivism‚ 3) Masculinity-Femininity‚ 4) Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and 5) Short or Long Term Orientation.” (Donald Baack‚ 2012‚ Chapter 2.4). “Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values
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theories that can help in understanding the differences by acquiring certain skills in dealing with different cultures. Geert Hofstede is one of the most popular names in this field. He did several studies about the subject and wrote books to explain his findings. His most famous one is the IBM study‚ held in more than 50 countries around the world. As a result of the IBM study‚ Hofstede came up with five cultural dimensions that can be used to assess each countries culture; power distance‚ uncertainty
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Management‚ 1st Ed‚ Prentice Hall‚ 20-46 2 3. Inglehart‚ R. (2005)‚ Chairman of the World Values Survey (Inglehart‚ 2005) 4 5. Minkov‚ M. (2011). Cultural Differences in a Globalizing World (1st Ed‚ xviii intro)‚ Emerald 6 7. Minkov‚ M.‚ & Hofstede‚ G. (2012a). Hofstede’s fifth dimensions: New evidence from the World Values Survey‚ Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology‚ 43(1)‚ 3-14 8 9. Smith‚ P.B.‚ Trompenaars‚ F. & Dugan‚ S. (1995). International Journal of Psychology‚ The Rotter locus
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simple. This essay explores how cultural differences effect meaning and communication. In doing so it will look at the definition of culture‚ what it is‚ and how it affects meaning. Furthermore‚ it will look at the acclaimed Dutch researcher‚ Geert Hofstede’s four dimensions of corporate culture as a framework to define and categorize cultural differences. Finally‚ it will raise potential problems raised in the field of inter-cultural communications and provide suggestions to overcome them.
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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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