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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1.Identify three scenes where you came across information on cultural differences between Japan and American workplaces. Please restrict each scene within 3-4 lines. ANS: From the Gung Ho Movie‚ it is not hard to recognize that there are lots of differences in culture‚ value‚ and work attitude between Japanese and American. Three scenes from the movie where the cultural differences are shown distinctly‚ are given below- 1. At work‚ Japanese production supervisors make the point that individual
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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 4.1.2. Uncertainty
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using Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions and Trompenaars’s cultural dimensions. According to the Wal-Mart’s Japanese strategy case to distinguish the difference culture in Japan compare with U.S. There are some problems that Wal-Mart may encounter which are Japan’s current distribution system‚ people’s traditional thinking of low price equate low quality and people would not going big shopping. The inherent risks of Wal-Mart’s entry strategies include trust‚ communication‚ and power problems. Further
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- Activity 2.1 Question 1: a) The scores of UK‚USA‚Germany and Japan on the cultural dimensions. Power distance Masculinity Term Orientation UK 35 66 51 USA 40 62 26 Germany 35 66 83 Japan 54 95 88 b) The power distance is defined as the inequality social status between people‚it usually relate to centralization‚superiors and decision making in organization administration.The power distance of UK and Germany are both score as 35‚it indicates that the inequality in this two country culture
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Introduction: In 1980‚ Social psychologist Greet Hofstede has developed “Cultural Dimension Theory” using the huge data collected from 117‚000 IBM employees during 1967 to 1973. He has first focused on 40 largest countries and then extended his research to 50 countries and 3 regions. This initial analysis identified systematic differences in national cultures on four primary dimensions: power distance (PDI)‚ individualism (IDV)‚ uncertainty avoidance (UAI) and masculinity (MAS)‚ which are described
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Gung-Ho means “Work together” Introduction Gung Ho demonstrates a cross-cultural relationship between the Americans and the Japanese people working together towards the goal. In this movie‚ a Japanese car manufacturer company takes over an American car manufacturing plant. The American workers were in conflict with the Japanese style of management. Situation Hunt Stevenson takes the leadership role and becomes the liaison between the Japanese executive team and the American workers. At first
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Power distance is one of the five dimensions of Hofstede’s framework for assessing culture. Hofstede has defined power distance as “the extent to which inequality in power is accepted and considered as normal by less powerful people in a society.”(Hofstede‚ p. 307‚ 1986). He divided this dimension into two categories: 1. Small 2. Large Small power distance: Small power distance means that the extent to which less powerful people accept the social inequality is small‚ that is members
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France – Jamaica Power Distance France working culture is centraly based on working hierchies‚ indivuidualism and high uncertainty avoidance. France is a country with high (68%) inequalities acceptance . It is a country where laboral hierachy exist‚ and were power is consolidated in hands of the minority. Employees have a great respect for their superiors‚ and only report to their inmediate managers‚ where information formaly continues its flow hierarchicaly Also‚ this herarchy seem to limit
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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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