NATIONAL CULTURE OF MALAYSIA Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values in workplace are influenced by culture. He defines these dimensions as follows: Power Distance: ’the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) expect and accept that power is distributed unequally’. Uncertainty Avoidance: ’intolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity’. Individualism versus Collectivism: ’the extent to which individuals
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Personal Analysis The two famous anthropological scholars‚ Edward T. Hall and Geert Hofstede have given us the cultural theories which explain and contrast the differences between two main distinguishable cultures‚ high and low context cultures‚ as a whole. However‚ as an individual‚ I cannot entirely rank myself in an absolute sense of any particular cultural context yet. Therefore‚ a closer and careful look into each criteria separately is needed in order to analyse my personalities and to clarify
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Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona Peng Achieving Successful Cross‐Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM. Sharona Peng A thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus) 2008 Faculty of Business Primary Supervisor: Peter Enderwick 1 / 78 Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural
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Why cultural awareness is important in business? INTRODUCTION The main objective of the academic essay is to explain why cultural awareness is important in business. It demonstrates about culture and the uses of it in business. Communication is a vital element in a business both internally and externally as it is a source of exchanging information. Corporate culture is a part of communication which is introduced. The essay includes barriers to communication and their consequences‚ to rectify
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Executive Summary Eagle Motors Ltd is a well-established Swedish Car Manufacturing Company trying to set up their firm in Australia. In order to compete successfully in the car industry in Australia‚ Eagle Motors Ltd needs to conduct an analysis of the industry context in which they would like to operate. Using the porters five forces model‚ this provides a detailed analysis of the competitive nature of the Australian car industry and also it suggests an appropriate competitive strategy for Eagle
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Organizational Culture Essay Organizational culture is a complex concept including many different meanings. In this essay‚ the definition of organizational culture is described as "a set of shared values and norms that controls organization members "interaction with each other‚ and with suppliers‚customers and others outside the organization‚ given by Gareth Jones. According to Morgan ’s theory‚ metaphor is a method to explain a phenomenon or create meaning by using one element of experience to
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Uncertainty Avoidance What is Uncertainty Avoidance? The Uncertainty Avoidance is one of the five intercultural dimensions developed by Hofstede. This cultural index concerned with a community’s tolerance for dubiousness and amphibology. It demonstrate to what extent a culture programs its members to feel either inconvenient or convenient in unstructured situations. This situations are new‚ unfamiliar‚ surprising‚ and different from usual. Uncertainty avoiding cultures try to reduce the opportunity
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Research and Practice in Human Resource Management‚ 11(1)‚ 1-14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede ’s_cultural_dimensions_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede http://eleedan.com/articles/article-2.html http://www.ukessays.com/essays/management/chinese-culture-and-recruitment-in-china-management-essay.php http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_66.htm Michael Minkov and Geert Hofstede (2012)‚ ‘Hofstede’s Fifth Dimension: New Evidence From the World Values Survey’‚ Journal of
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Table of contents Introduction The case is about two major companies with completely different backgrounds: Philips and Matsushita‚ both competing in the same market: the (consumer) electronic market. Both multinationals quickly grew out to be big successful companies in the market. Each one of these companies followed a completely different strategy. However‚ both companies encountered many challenges after the achievement of success. The culture of Matsushita and Philips
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Part 1: an individual essay on how values affect individual and organizational behavior Values The topic of values has become a plethora item of debate in many areas‚ particularly in the field of organization behavior. Values can be defined as the basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end- state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite and converse mode of conduct or end state of existence (M. Rokeach‚ 1973). Value predicts various aspects of individual’s
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