Globalization Note Series Pankaj Ghemawat and Sebastian Reiche National Cultural Differences and Multinational Business The eminent Dutch psychologist‚ management researcher‚ and culture expert Geert Hofstede‚ early in his career‚ interviewed unsuccessfully for an engineering job with an American company. Later‚ he wrote of typical cross-cultural misunderstandings that crop up when American managers interview Dutch recruits and vice versa: “American applicants‚ to Dutch eyes‚ oversell themselves
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Assignment - 2 (Individual) Five Factors and Downsizing Which two of the five HR factors listed by the authors of your course do you consider the most important for your organization? (Explain your organization and its nature of business briefly). Justify your choice‚ and discuss these two factors in detail. Assuming that the U.S. sub-prime crisis of the present day is now affecting the Asian economies and your organization is feeling the effects of slowing sales as well as rising raw materials
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CHAPTER 1 Consumer Behavior Across Cultures W hen the Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the concept of the global 1 village‚ he was referring to Plato’s definition of the proper size for a city—the number of people who could hear the voice of the public speaker. By the global village‚ McLuhan meant that the new electric media of his time‚ such as telephone and television‚ abolished the spatial dimension. By means of electricity‚ people everywhere could resume person-to-person
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The territoriality principle holds that governments have the right to rule themselves as they see fit. True False The elimination of discrimination with respect to employment and occupation is a principle of the Global Compact which applies to: A. Human rights B. Labor C. Environment D. Anticorruption Question 3 of 40 (worth 0.4 points) Which of the following statements is not true of Hungary’s economic reform measures? A. Hungary had a head start on the other former communist-bloc countries
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Individual Difference and Personalities 1. Personality a. Definition Personality is the particular combination of emotional‚ attitudinal‚ and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Different personality theorists present their own definitions of this the word based on their theoretical positions. Personality is the sum total of all the behavioural and mental characteristics by means of which an individual is recognized as being unique. b. Shaping of Personality * Biological Factors
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Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review Berry C. Miller Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility (Axia)/XMGT216 July 11‚ 2010 Frank Czarny Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review Managers and leaders of companies conducting business internationally face many ethical and moral issues. When companies conduct business with other nations many dilemmas may occur because of ignorance of the other nation’s customs and beliefs. Understanding the customs and beliefs of countries
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resources for Michelin’s North American operations and whom Chalon knew personally‚ had just left his office. He had mentioned to Chalon that several of his colleagues and subordinates had bitterly complained about Chalon’s management approach. Some individuals thought they were going to be fired or were seeking other positions within the company. Chalon was shocked by the complaints people had made to Armstrong. Was it really true that people felt his leadership style was demoralising? That he lacked
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Hofstede’s Five Aspects of Culture Hofstede ’s cultural factors Explanations > Culture > Hofstede ’s cultural factors Power | Self | Gender | Predictability | Time | So what? Geert Hofstede‚ a Dutch cultural anthropologist‚ analyzed cultures along five dimensions. He rated 58 countries on each dimension on a scale from 1 to 100. Power Hofstede named this Power Distance (PD or PDI). It is the extent to which less powerful members expect and accept unequal power distribution.
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ACROSS CULTURE What is culture? In current usage‚ culture is that which distinguishes life in one group from life in another group; mental content‚ norms‚ institutions and physical objects‚ among other qualities. To demonstrate‚ consider the difference between the U. S. Plains Indian culture with that of Victorian Britain. Shortly‚ culture is the large-scale context of a given society. When culture (Latin: cultura‚ lit. "cultivation")[1] first began to take
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The impact of communicating across cross culture at MegaMart Shana-kaye Mills 18090222 Sherica Smith 11090066 Kimberly Miller 18100317 Dave McKenzie Yanique Clarke 60090206 Sean Taylor 18085307 Dave Bartley 18110574 NORTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY Dr. Sashin Pilli Author Note Research conducted by Shana-Kaye Mills‚ Kimberly Miller‚ Dave McKenzie‚ Yanique Clarke‚ Sean Taylor‚ Sherica Smith and Dave Bartley‚ College of Business and Hospitality Management
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