International 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
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1. The Banana Chain: The macro economics of the Banana Trade Adelien van de Kasteele on behalf of IUF Amsterdam‚ February 1998 1. BANANAS: THE PRODUCTION CHAIN In 1996 world production of the most important fruits was around 400 million tons. Bananas compete with grapes for second place behind citrus‚ both accounting for 13-14% of total world fresh fruit production. Banana production has been increasing by around 3% per year over the last decade. Bananas are grown in all tropical regions
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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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of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt
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terrorist groups doing ruthless acts for their own profits. A company named Chiquita fell victim to a couple of Colombian terrorist groups from 1997 up to 2004. The two groups were oppositions of one another and wanted payment in exchange for not killing employees of the company. Chiquita decided to pay the money payments which totaled about $1.7 million‚ thinking it was the right decision for the company as well as employees. Chiquita choice to pay the terrorist groups is not justified because this act
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transcended typical cultural boundaries of geographic location‚ race‚ and age through the collective love
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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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effectively is challenging. One notable challenge appears to be the correlation between the inherent cultural background (see footnote) of a mentor/mentee (see footnote) and the necessary characteristics and qualities required by a mentor/mentee‚ as recognized and generally accepted by informed research‚ to make such a program successful. Although many researchers discuss the challenges of cross-cultural mentoring (see Shore et al‚ 2008. St Claire-Oswald‚ 2007)‚ my aim is to draw attention to the challenges
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Mark A. Grant IB: Psychologie HL Learning Outcome: • Examine the role of two cultural dimensions on behavior. Introduction: • To begin with culture as stated by Matsumoto (2004) is a dynamic system of rules containing attitudes‚ values‚ beliefs‚ norms and behaviors. There are a variety of different ways in which to interpret culture‚ such as the perception of food or the way in which people in a particular culture dress. This in a sense is the “surface culture” of a specific country; the
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