Rui Lin 1043959 Prof. Swid Fall 2014 - M01 - International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior Assessment A1 October 15‚ 2014 Cross-cultural Communication Communication is the process of speaking‚ writing by which people exchange information or express their thoughts and feelings. And cross-cultural communication means communication between the people which speaks different language and cultural backgrounds. Q: what are the barriers to effective cross-cultural communication? The main characteristic
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3. Cross-national Cultural Differences A cultural orientation describes the attitudes of most people most of the time‚ never of all the people all of the time (Adler 2002: 22) 3.1 Introduction This chapter covers the studies that define cross-national cultural differences and shows how these cross-national cultural differences affect professional behavior in general. In § 3.2‚ a short exposition on the definition of national culture is provided‚ including the general understanding of what
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vol 2‚ (2nd. Ed): 75-124‚ 1990. Kirkman‚ B. L. and Shapiro‚ D. L. “The impact of cultural values on employee resistance to teams: Toward a model of globalized self-managing work team effectiveness.” Academy of Management Review‚ 22‚ 730-757‚ 1997. Kluckhohn‚ F.‚ and Strobeck‚ F. L. Variations in Value Orientations. Evanston‚ Il.: Row‚ Peterson‚ 1961. Hofstede‚ G. Culture’s consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values Beverly Hills‚ Ca: Sage‚ 1980. ________ “Motivation‚ leadership‚
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UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Deepak K. Agrawal‚ College of Business‚ Wayne State College 1111 Main‚ Wayne‚ NE 68787‚ deagra01@wsc.edu ABSTRACT Culture has significant impact on the organization. People of an organization learn the national culture as they grow up. It is very deeply rooted in their lives because of the fact that they learned and followed such culture for a very long period of time. It is also based on shared attitudes‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ written and unwritten rules that
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is difference between one nation and another. Therefore the company should make a comparison between New Zealand and Malaysia‚ understand the culture of New Zealand and the cultural impacts which will easily affect the business strategies. Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck framework and Hofstede framework will be used in the report to investigate and the cultures differences between New Zealand and Malaysia in aspects such as time orientation‚ power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance and so on. Table
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In all cultures‚ there are different dimensions that can be categorized into a continuum. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck have functions of cultural patterns such as common human problems‚ preferred solutions and most importantly‚ a continuum. A continuum is how things are rated by percentages. For example‚ happiness. It could be either more or less in certain situations. In Hofstede’s dimensions of culture‚ there are two topics and only one can be higher in certain cultures than others. The country I
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Differences in everyday working Environment of Companies (from Germany‚ Switzerland‚ Austria) in Hungary. Debrecen‚ Hungary: University of Debrecen. Hall‚ E. T. (1976). Beyond Culture. Toronto‚ USA: Anchor Books Editions. Hills‚ M. D. (2002). Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck ’s Values Orientation. Wikato: University of Wikato‚ New Zealand. Hofstede‚ G. (1997). The Hofstede Centre. Accessed January‚ 20th 2014 from The Hofstede Centre: http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html House‚ R Lang‚ R. (2013). „The
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L. Robert Kohls opens his book‚ Survival Kit for Overseas Living‚ with a preface that reminds its reader that even if you have chosen to live your life up until now within your own culture and/or social groups people in today’s world are expected to know and be able to function within society at an intercultural level of acceptance and unity. The purpose of this book is help Americans to see what intercultural skills we already have‚ those that must be developed to ‘survive’‚ and to become aware/more
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Intercultural Communication I I Defining Intercultural Communication __________________ 03 Stella Ting-Toomey ’s Definition The Iceberg Metaphor II Cultural Values ______________________________________ 04 Models of Value Orientations Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck ’s Value Orientations Three of Hofstede ’s Cultural Variables in Organizations ____ 05 III Perception and Intercultural Communication ____________ 06 IV Communication Styles _______________________________ 08 Continua of Communication
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C427 Study Guide Appadurai’s model: Five dimensions of global cultural flows Scapes help us to define our imagined worlds 1. Ethnoscapes- produced by flows of people: tourists‚ immigrants‚ refugees‚ exiles‚ and guest workers 2. Technoscapes- the machinery and plant flows produces by multinational and national corporations and government agencies ex. cars‚ food 3. Finanscapes- produced by the rapid flows of money in the currency markets and stock exchanges 4. Mediascapes- the repertoires
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