Spanish Cultural Dimensions. Through this report‚ based on the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions‚ we will try to clarify the main features of the Spanish culture. To get this target we will use a few proverbs or traditional expressions from Spain and relate them to Hofstede’s theory. This way we will be able to understand and know a little bit more about how is the Spanish culture and how it differentiates from other cultures. The first proverb we are going to use says: “La union hace la fuerza”
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of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt
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Two Basic Dimensions of Leadership 1. Task Orientation( initiating structure) Task orientation relates to Blake and Mouton’s concern for production. It is the quality of a manager who maintains strong discipline to task completion and deadlines. A highly task-oriented manager maintains focus on timing and quality of work and‚ at the extreme‚ can lose sight of the importance of showing consideration for employees. A leader with strong orientation often gets labeled as an authoritarian leader
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The Five Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Business had been evolve seen the beginning of human civilization. Today business has evolved into an age of globalization‚ which is every countries in the world has connected together as one enormous network .This Globalizations phenomenon also presented many difficulties of doing business between country to country especially doing business outside of home country. One of the biggest problems is the different of the cultures such as customs‚ tradition
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government plan and the unabated raise on the population at the alarming rate. As compared to china and other developed European countries most of the south Asian countries even India had failed miserably in controlling its population. In context of Nepal the main reason for the rise in price may be the frequent strikes and lock-outs in the industrial region. The political instability is also one of the main reasons for the raise of price. Well well well‚ after all that we should not forget the corruption
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Gerard Hendrik Hofstede (born October 2‚ 1928 in Haarlem) is a Dutch expert in cultural studies [GHW]. Hofstede (1980) surveyed 88‚000 IBM employees working in 66 countries and then ranked the countries on different cultural dimensions. His research resulted in four dimensions (power distance; individualism versus collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; and masculinity and femininity). In the beginning‚ China was not included in this study but later Bond and Hofstede looked at Chinese values. From this
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The economic dimensions of globalization While the globalization process is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon‚ some of its most visible and influential aspects are economic in nature. This chapter contains an analysis‚ from a global standpoint‚ of major trends in trade‚ investment‚ finance‚ macroeconomic regimes and international labour mobility. This analysis covers a long period in history‚ from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present‚ and is structured
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Trompenaars and Hamden Turner classified cultures along a mix of behavioral and value patterns. Their research focuses on the cultural dimensions of business executives. 1. Universalism vs. Particularism (What is more important‚ rules or relationships?) Universalistic Countries: focus more on formal rules than relationships; believe that their ideas and practices can be applied worldwide without modification (Germany‚ UK‚ US) Particularistic countries: more emphasis on relationships than rules
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Rosalyn B. Pertiz Dimensions of Education MW(10-11:30am) Reflection Paper Being in this class and having participated in every discussion had given me a lot of privilege to obtain knowledge‚ understanding and comprehension about the world of socialization and interaction; the reason why do people behave such a behavior; elements of effective communication; the pillars of education that a teacher must possess in his heart and mind; the cultural differences that each teachers should be aware
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The six Dimensions of Culture Armed with a large database of cultural statistics‚ Hofstede analyzed the results and found clear patterns of similarity and difference amid the responses along these five dimensions. Interestingly‚ his research was done on employees of IBM only‚ which allowed him to attribute the patterns to national differences in culture‚ largely eliminating the problem of differences in company culture. The six dimensions are: 1. Power/Distance (PD) "Power distance is the extent
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