Meaning and Dimensions of Culture Chapter 4 Chapter Outline The nature of culture The nature of culture Values and folkways Comparing cultural values Sub-cultures and cultural change How culture affects management – see page 95 How cultures view each other Chapter Outline (2) Cultural dimensions – how people look at life Hofstede’s dimensions Country clusters – countries with similar cultural dimensions Trompenaar’s dimensions The Nature of Culture Culture is
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CASE: ‘Insallah: An Expatriate Challenge’ [Saudi Arabia] Sells Bladeco & steel products “Wasta” = connections “Insallah” = a feeling or cultural norm – God willing Masculinity – Mustafa refused to conduct business with a woman High Power Distance – Helped get US representative out of jail for drinking water during Ramadan Relationship-Focused & Highly Collectivist CASE: ‘Co-operating & Communicating Across Cultures’ [Germany] German led project (Jim from US to Germany) Then; American led
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long range goals. TROMPENAAR’S DIMENSIONS Although Hofstede’s dimensions are the most recognize cultural dimension a more recent research is gaining attention. This research was made over a period on ten years by another Dutch researcher Fons Trompenaar. Trompenaar’s dimensions are Universalism vs. Particularism‚ Individualism vs. Communitarianism‚ Neutral vs. Emotional‚ Specific vs. Diffuse‚ Achievement vs. Ascription‚ Sequential vs. Synchronous‚ and Internal vs. External. GLOBE DIMENSIONS
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The purpose of this essay to demonstrate the cultural differences between the UK manager going to work as an expatriate manager in Colombia. By taking into consideration Hofstede‚ Bond‚ Trompenaars and other cross cultural management researchers to advise the UK manager about the Colombian culture‚ taking into consideration the differences between leadership styles‚ decision making‚ recruitment and selection‚ motivation‚ planning and team versus individual working.The reason for selecting Colombia
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Trompenaars’ five relationship orientations There are five orientations covering the ways in which human beings deal with each other: 1. Universalism versus Particularism Do we consider rules or relationships more important? 2. Communitarianism versus Individualism Do we act mostly as individuals or as groups? 3. Neutral versus Emotional Are we free to express our emotions or are we restrained? 4. Specific versus Diffuse How extensively are we involved with the lives of other people
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Fachhochschule Köln Cologne University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Research paper of the discipline “Cross Cultural Competence SS 2012” Made by: Brovchenko Ekaterina Dzyuba Stanislav Shushunina Tatiana 2012 Content Summary 1.Targets
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Culture • Culture – a community’s set of shared assumptions about how the world works and what ideals are worth striving for. • Culture can greatly affect a country’s laws. • Culture influences what people value‚ so it affects people’s economic systems and efforts to invest in education. • Culture often determines the effectiveness of various HRM practices. Culture • Cultural characteristics influence the ways members of an organization behave toward one another as well as their attitudes
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Religious syncretism exhibits blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system‚ or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. In the case of Haitian Vodou‚ Vodou blends two or more religious beliefs into one system‚ therefore it can be characterized has syncretism. Vodou is a syncretic system derived from deeply rooted African beliefs and colonial French Catholicism. As a reaction to being torn violently from their roots‚ the slaves tried
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sociology (1991)‚ 4th edition‚ Guilford‚ Connecticut: The Dushkin Publishing Group‚ Inc. Trompenaars‚ F. & Hampden-Turner‚ C. (1997)‚ Riding the Waves of Culture‚ London: Nicholas Brealey (2nd Ed) Trompenaars‚ F. & Hampden-Turner‚ C. (1993)‚ The Seven Cultures of Capitalism‚ London: Piatkus Trompenaars‚ F. & Woolliams‚ P. (2003)‚ Journal of Change Management Vol.3‚ 4‚ p. 361375: Henry Stewart Publication Watson‚ T. J. (2001)‚ In Search of Management
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SAMPLE PROBLEMS: 112- Topic 1: ELECTRIC FORCES & ELECTRIC FIELDS. 1) Charges of - 6 and + 4 nC are 3 m apart. Determine the force they exert on each other‚ and the electric field at a point midway between them. |Solution: This is an electrostatics problem (stationary charges). Since the charges|[pic] | |are of opposite sign‚ they will attract each other. The forces are indicated in the|
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