B391F International Business Management I Week 4 National Differences in Cultural and Competitive Environments McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by the McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Outcomes Explain what is meant by the culture of a society. Identify the sources that lead to differences in social culture. Identify the business and economic implications of differences in culture. Describe how differences in social culture influence values in the work place.
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1) Give the definition and objectives of “your” cultural dimensions (what does the dimension measure? what do you want to measure? For instance : ability to work in groups‚ individual empowerment ... (for the individual/collective dimension). Diffuse and Specific orientated cultures – The most apparent difference is the ability to separate private from professional life. In diffused cultures‚ the private and professional lives are closely linked whereas specific cultures keep them separate.
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Group presentations about Hofstede’s cultural dimension 1. A brief presentation of Geert Hofstede and his background Geert Hofstede was born 2 October 1928 in Haarlem. He is a Dutch social psychologist that did a pioneering study of cultures across modern nations. Geert has made these models that classified culture along four different dimensions – Power Distance Index‚ Individualism versus Collectivism‚ Masculinity versus Femininity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance Index‚ Long Term Orientation versus Short
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promote cultural change that helps improve the overall effectiveness of an organization‚ first we need to understand when and why cultural change needed in organization. - Cultural change needed when an organization does not possess a healthy culture‚ or requires some kind of organizational culture change. - Cultural change may be necessary to reduce employee turnover‚ influence employee behavior‚ make improvements to the company‚ refocus the company objectives and/or rescale the organization‚ provide
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differently (better?) in different countries. Bring evidence from empirical studies. Increasing research states that HR practices have different effects in different countries because of institutional/cultural differences. Hence‚ companies that shape their HR practices based upon these geographical differences should have better firm performance according to Fey et al. (2008). Fey et al. (2008) made a choice of the five most popular HR practices in research‚ being: Performance appraisal Employee
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Table of Contents Introduction 3 Importance of organizational culture 3 Wal-Mart 4 Commerce bank 5 Culture 5 Organization culture 6 Types of culture 6 The Power Culture 7 The Role Culture 7 The Task Culture 7 The Person Culture 7 Culture in both organizations 8 Organizational strategy and the importance of the culture in successful implementations the strategy 8 Strategy of Commerce Bank and Wal-Mart 9 Development of culture 9 How it starts 9 Socialization process
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Cultural Approach to Organization Clifford Geertz and Michael Pacanowsky describe organizations as having their own culture like a web. Geertz described culture as a shared meaning‚ shared understanding and shared sense making. This means that any given organization has a particular culture in which the meanings for things are shared between individuals. Geertz has referred to himself as an ethnographer‚ do observe and analyzes social discourse in thick descriptions. Then‚ Michael Pacanowsky
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group who see all members as ‘co-creators’. A relatively egalitarian structure in which individuals are given the freedom to improvise. Silicon Valley is a good example of where this has worked to great effect. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner: Seven Cultural Dimensions 1. UNIVERSALISM versus PLURALISM “What is more important – rules or relationships?” The degree of importance a culture assigns to either the law or to personal relationships. In a universalistic culture‚ people share the belief that general
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1) Read the following two cases (Source: Cellich – Jain: Global Business Negotiations) and answer the questions after each case. You can do this either individually or with a partner. Assessment Pass/Fail. 2) Culture has a great impact on different types of negotiations. Find out the general features of business culture in your home country and how you negotiate in your own culture. Case 1 Background Brown Casual shoes‚ Inc. located in Houston‚ Texas‚ is a second-generation family-owned
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Hofstede’s Model Geert Hofstede developed a cultural dimension model that explains the five categories of positions between national cultures. The five dimensions pertaining to this model include: individualism‚ materialism‚ time orientation‚ deference to authority and uncertainty avoidance. Hofstede’s research is still practiced today but has undergone some changes since it was first introduced due to cultural and economic modifications during past years. To understand this model the five
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