International Business Administration Cultural Diversity Professor: Hans Hahn Summer Semester 2014 Cultural Dimensions of Geert Hofstede: Analysis of Colombia 10.06.2014 Soraya A. Suarez I. Register Number: 969800 Darmstädter Landstr. 64 60598 Frankfurt Tel: 0176- 708 59654 E-mail: sorayasuarez@gmail.com Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Culture 3 3. Colombia 5 4. Cultural Models and Cultural Dimensions 8 4.1 Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 9 4.1.1. Power Distance Index 10 4.1
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1. SOCIO-CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING 2. Learning is influenced by social interactions‚ interpersonal relations‚ and communication with others. Learning can be enhanced when the learner has an opportunity to interact and to collaborate with others on instructional tasks. Learning settings that allow social interactions‚ and respect for diversity encourage flexible thinking and social competence. 3. In interactive and collaborative instructional contexts‚ individuals have an opportunity for perspective
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Socio-cultural .Where different social classes spend their time and money 1. Social classes in Australia. Societies are divided into different social classes. In Australia‚ 。。。 2. Where different social classes spend their money . Every family spent money on four ways: 1) visible products‚ 2) insurance‚ 3) entertainment‚ and 4) food. The individual’s consumption patterns can correctly signify family’s class position. The lower class spend the biggest percentage on basic living‚ to be more
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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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is another fundamental issue for any society‚ to which a range of solutions can be found. The IBM studies revealed that (a) women’s values differ less among societies than men’s values; (b) men’s values from one country to another contain a dimension from very assertive and competitive and maximally different from women’s values on the one side‚ to modest and caring and similar to women’s values on the other. The assertive pole has been called ’masculine’ and the modest‚ caring pole ’feminine’
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Cultural dimensions and dilemmas Culture is a way of life evolved and is jointly owned by a group of people and passed from generation to generation. culture formed of many complex elements‚ including religious and political systems‚ customs‚ languages‚ tools‚ clothing‚ buildings‚ and works of art. Culture also divide by two that is material and non material culture. Material cultural like something that equipment on living like house such as longhouses at Sarawak‚ Eskimo. Non material culture
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to be disagreements‚ misunderstanding and disputes. Furthermore‚ conflicts can take different forms or assume different dimensions‚ some of which include: political‚ social and economic dimensions. Dimensions here refer to an aspect or feature of a situation (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary‚ 1998). This work shall examine and explain the socio-economic and political dimensions of conflicts. However‚ due to the all encompassing and universal nature of conflicts‚ focus will be laid on conflicts in
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on the effective management of people. (Foskett & Lumby 2003: 61) Managing teachers to facilitate effective learning can be both rewarding and challenging. A teacher mentoring program‚ when implemented successfully‚ is one particular management tool that can bring both personal and organizational rewards. However‚ implementing such a program effectively is challenging. One notable challenge appears to be the correlation between the inherent cultural background (see footnote)
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Understanding Hofstede’s 5 Cultural Dimensions Geert Hofstede devoted over a decade to researching cultural differences and developed an internationally recognized model of cultural dimensions. There are five main dimensions of culture that serve as a guide to understanding intercultural communications‚ business‚ and effective social exchange. The five dimensions are Power Distance‚ Individualism‚ Masculinity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and Long-Term Orientation and were developed to provide a method
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