Chapter 04 Cultural Dynamics in Assessing Global Markets True / False Questions 1. (p. 93) There is a moderate level American-style risk-taking among Japanese investors. FALSE Difficulty: Easy Type: Knowledge 2. (p. 93) The liberalization of Japan’s capital markets in recent years now gives Japanese more freedom of choice in their investments. However‚ only twelve percent of household financial assets are directly invested in stocks and a mere two percent in mutual funds
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and how they integrate into each other’s culture. Therefore‚ we will arrange the paper in three dimensions of Hofstede’s theory: individualism vs. collectivism‚ power distance and uncertainty avoidance. 1. Individualism vs Collectivism The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding reveals the sharp contrast between American individualism and Greek collectivism. From Hofstede’s research into culture differences among 50 countries and 3 regions‚ the US ranked first with its individualism index score reaching
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Cultural Differences Paper Jessica Fuentes COM 360 September 10‚ 2014 Mary Wardlaw There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world‚ we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage‚ friendships‚ and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s
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Index Contents Introduction 3 The Onion model and the Value Profile of Thailand 5 Case 1 “Khatoey” 8 Case 2 Muslim Thais 13 Case 3 Illegal immigrants 17 Case 4 “Hi-So” 22 Conclusion 27 Evaluation 28 Introduction In this report we are going to analyze Thailand‚ officially‚ the “Kingdom of Thailand”. It is located in Southeast Asia‚ bordering to the north Laos and Burma (Myanmar)‚ to the east Cambodia and to the southMalaysia (Encyclopedia.Thailandhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Thailand
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simultaneously. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that the national culture dimensions tend high for collectivism‚ power distance‚ masculinity and uncertainty avoidance‚ quite different from Hofstede (1980) findings that Indonesia has high collectivism‚ high power distance‚ moderate in masculinity and low in uncertainty avoidance. While in Second Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis‚ collectivism‚ power distance and uncertainty avoidance are confirmed as a dimension of national culture but masculinity
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and American business people. Irvine‚ CA: Graduate School of Management‚ University of California. Gudykunst‚ W.B.‚ Gao‚ G.‚ Schmidt‚ K.L.‚ Nishida‚ T.‚ Bond‚ M.H.‚ Leung‚ K.‚ Wang‚ G.‚ & Barraclough‚ R.A. (1992). The in¯ uence of individualism-collectivism‚ selfmonitoring‚ and predicted outcome value on communication in ingroup and outgroup relationships Journal of Cross. Cultural Psychology‚ 23‚ 196± 213. Hall‚ E.T. (1976). Beyond culture. Garden City‚ CA: Anchor. Hofstede‚ G. (1980). Culture’s
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Chapter 4 Personality and Values MULTIPLE CHOICE Personality 1. Which of the following statements about personality is correct? a. Personality is always stable. b. Personality is a part of a person. c. Personality is an aggregate whole. d. Personality is for the most part comprised of traits that cannot be measured. e. Personality is the primary source of emotions in most people. (c; Easy; Personality; p. 105) 2. Which of the following statements about the
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participants and from that samples statistical analysis(Regression analysis‚ variants) has been done based on independent variables (Consumers Green purchasing behaviour)‚ and dependent variables(Environmental knowledge‚ Environmental awareness‚ collectivism‚ Transparency on trade practises) ‚Demographic variables and how does it affect” purchasing behaviour” of Indian consumer. Based on various analysis of researches and from statistical analysis the result of this paper seeks to explain how does
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satisfaction and turnover is important due to the extensive costs of turnover in most organizations. Unfortunately‚ little is known about how cultural differences at the national level‚ such as differences in uncertainty avoidance (UA) and individualism/collectivism (I/C)‚ moderate the relationship between job attitudes and job withdrawal. In the present research‚ data from a large multinational opinion survey were used to compare the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intentions across four
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Ashforth‚ B.E. (1995). Loyal from day one: Biodata‚ organizational identification‚ and turnover among newcomers Mael‚ F.A.‚ & Tetrick‚ L.E. (1992). Identifying organizational identification. Moorman‚ R.H.‚ & Blakely‚ G.L. (1995). Individualism-collectivism as an individual difference predictor of organizational citizenship behavior Mowday‚ R.T.‚ Steers‚ R.M.‚ & Porter‚ L.W. (1979). The measurement of organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior‚ 14‚ 224±247. O ’Leary-Kelly‚ A.M.‚ Martocchio
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