This revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act - with new dimensions and perspectives. Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, 'Cultures and Organizations' examines what drives people apart - when cooperation is so clearly in everyone s interest.

Download Avatar Aang Book 3 Sub Indonesia on this page. CHAPTER 1 Top 5 cultural competences in communication:  Cultural empathy  Open-mindedness Learnable  Social initiative  Emotional stability  Flexibility Culture: you have your own pattern of thinking, feeling and potential acting that was learned throughout your lifetime. Culture is a set of ideas, norms, customs, traditions, symbols and assumptions about life.

Cyberlink Powerdvd Free Download 9 there. Cultures and Organizations - Software of the mind - Download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online. This article describes briefly the Hofstede model of five dimensions of national cultures: Power Distance. Aggregation; it describes the six entirely different dimensions found in the Hofstede et al. Research into organizational. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Revised and expanded 2nd.

Culture is taken for granted; it is an accumulation of all the unspoken aspects of daily life. Culture is learned The onion diagram: Internal: transforming values into behavior External: through symbols, heroes and rituals, explicit, observable Values: Invisible core Symbols: products of culture: skyscrapers of Manhattan, busy public streets. These are expressions of the deeper values (material success, “the more the better”) also norms: what’s right or wrong Values; how you aspire or desire to behave. What’s more important: to be rich or to have a happy life Cautious: when speaking about cultures you speak in generalization.

(stereotyping) Intercultural communication:  Communication between people from different cultural backgrounds Two types of human behavior: Behavior that is genetically programmed, we all communicate. Behavior that is cultural (parochial behavior). Learned behavior that is particular to a culture. Non-verbal communication: gestures, clothing, physical distance, body posture etc. CHAPTER 2 Hofstede’s dimensions of culture: Power distance: PD high: large distance between boss and employee.

A Card Merely Thought Of Pdf Viewer. PD Low, there is interdependence between a boss and subordinates. • PDI: the extent to which less powerful members of organizations and institutions within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally (large-small) “just call me bob” low power distance – “there is order when the king is king, the minister is minister, the father is father and the son is son” high power distance. Individualism - collectivism: Individualism: belief that people are only supposed to take care of themselves, independence, privacy, self, I instead of i. Emphasis on: speaking your mind. Collectivism: absolute loyalty to a group, obligation to the group, in-group loyalty. Emphasis on: maintaining harmony.

Individualism index score: IDV score can be fairly accurately predicted from 2 factors: - Wealth (richer countries >higher IDV) - Latitude (closer to equator >lower IDV) There is a correlation between collectivism and exclusionism: treat people on the basis of their group affiliation, and exclude outsiders. Correlation between individualism and universalism: treat people primarily on the basis of who they are as individuals. Exclusionism: treat people on the basis of their group affiliation, and exclude others.

Universalism: treat people primarily on the basis of who they are as individuals. Nepotism: refers to the act of favouring relatives and friends because of their relationship to the person displaying the nepotism rather than because of their abilities. Favouritism to close relations. Hofstede’s dimensions of culture:  Power distance  Individualism – collectivism  Uncertainty avoidance  Femininity - masculinity  Short – and long term orientation  Indulgence vs restraint CHAPTER 3-4 Masculine society: gender roles are clearly distinct, role of a man vs the role of a woman.