Global Marketing Week 3 Assignment 1) What is the difference between a low-context culture and a high-context culture? Low-context cultures communication is usually taken at face value without much reliance on unspoken context. While high-context cultures communication relies a lot on the underlying unspoken context, which has the same important as the words used. 2) Describe the differences among the dimensions of Hofstede’s framework. The seven factors of the dimension approach are:
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1. Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal. If you want to be a leader, how successful you are will depend greatly on the culture where you work. “But wait,” you might say, “doesn’t it matter more that you have the ability to lead? That you have the traits that make a leader?” Perhaps, but if the culture you work in doesn’t allow you to practice those traits — or worse still, discourages those traits — they become irrelevant
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Since South Africa and Canada are nearly mirror images of each other, management should try and find the biggest differences to make a accurate decision in putting their business there. Hofstede’s value dimensions is a good starting place for managers to look at when trying to find cultural differences between countries. The biggest differences between South Africa and Canada are: Power Distance, Individualism, And Masculinity. Power Distance: According to itim International (n.d.), “This dimension
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MINIMUM LOON IS NIE DIE ANTWOORD NIE Een van die belangrikste doelwitte van enige owerheid is die gelyke verspreiding van inkomste tussen al die mense van ‘n land en die bekamping van werkloosheid. 'n Minimum loon is die laagste uurlikse, daaglikse of maandelikse vergoeding wat werkgewers wettiglik aan werkers moet betaal en ook die laagste loon waarteen werkers hul arbeid kan verkoop. ‘n Minimum loon wat ingestel word, kan ‘n positiewe of negatiewe uitwerking
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MARBOUTY Julien 27/11/2012 TD L Management Scientists are Human - Geert Hofstede - Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 1, Focused Issue: Is Management Science International? (Jan., 1994), pp. 4-13 1. Présentation de l’auteur et contextualisation de son œuvre Geert Hofstede est un psychologue social, professeur d’anthropologie spécialisé dans l’étude du management international et du fonctionnement des organisations. Pionnier de la recherche comparative intellectuelle, il exerce
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ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS Ingeniería Empresarial Comparación de las dimensiones de la Cultura según Hofstede entre Ecuador y el Reino Unido Emilia Subía Lara Clima, Cultura y Comunicación Organizacional Dra. Valentina Ramos 26/10/2015 CULTURA ORGANIZACIONAL CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES O E STUDIOS TRANSCULTURALES En los últimos tiempos se ha puesto énfasis en el estudio de la cultura organizacional debido a que ahora una organización está
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Organizations are bound by culture, which includes the individual behaviors of members and the collective purpose of the organization. In his frequently referenced book, Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-related Values (1984), Geert Hofstede provided a methodology for the cross-cultural studies of nations, and the organizations that develop based on cultural values. Cultural concepts, as they relate to organizational studies, are borrowed from anthropology, in which views vary, and there
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Global Business Today – The Hofstede Study Eniye Olorogun Marketing 505 Dr. Harris Global Business Today – The Hofstede Study The Azure Sky Tea is an American company located in the Rocky Mountains. The herbal tea company boasts of a market share of 9 percent, but has plans to increase its market share through expansion into new markets. The company has a low-key culture and therefore must find markets suitable for this culture. The Hofstede model can help the company find suitable countries
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negotiation across contrasting geographic locations or countries, negotiators have to understand the repercussions which heterogeneous cultures have in the final outcome of a potential deliberation. Culture is defined as the ‘unwritten rules of society’ (Hofstede et al, 2010) and most typically refers to those characteristics or values, which are unconsciously embedded in a large group of citizens through the ongoing processes of tradition and various forms of education. Understanding the pertinence of cultural
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Portfolio of Reflective Cultural Practice Assignment Contents Page Portfolio of Reflective Cultural Practice Assignment 1.1. Introduction In recent times, there has been seen an increased change in the composition of the workforce in organisations because of the rapidly growing globalisation which has made the world increasingly more interrelated (SOURCE). Therefore most business’s around the world including the hospitality and tourism industry need to enter into a cross-cultural
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