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5 – A Sample of Useful Online Information Sources for Cross Cultural Management
Objectives
The aim of this
assignment is to suggest sources of online information useful for managing
across cultures and why they are valuable.
Instructor Comments
The websites of
Kwintessential and the Centre for Inter-Cultural Learning are gifts. Their
scroll down features offer the curious a quick and fascinating means to
summarize a nation’s culture. The latter source is written for Canadian’s from
the perspective of the host culture with a comparison to that of Canada. Of
interest is that this source is an important tool used to train Canadian
diplomats and government representatives prior to heading off for extended
stays overseas.
These descriptions are
quite extensive but are also fairly new in this form. Surprisingly, free,
easily accessible and well organized information of this nature is not that
easy to find. Presented in this form, both of these information sources serve
as excellent vehicles for making comparisons across cultures in a fairly user
friendly fashion.
Assignment
This assignment seeks
to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “How
can some publicly available online information sources help me understand
different national cultures?” You should base your responses to the
following questions on your analysis of a series of websites noted below.
·
Country Etiquette Guides found on the Kwintessential.com
website.
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/country-profiles.html andhttp://www.kwintessential.co.uk/etiquette/doing-business-in.html
·
Country Insights found on Centre for Inter-Cultural Learning
website.
http://www.intercultures.ca
For each of the
questions below, compare and summarize in one-half page each, the responses for
five countries.
Please answer the
following questions.
·
What is one important point associated with negotiations?
·
What are some rules of thumb associated with meeting and
greeting?
·
How might a foreigner make a good first impression?
·
What are some of the stereotypes associated with the culture of
the country?
Hint: Please look
closely at the questions and/or keywords used on the Kwintessential’s Country
Etiquette Guides and the Centre for Inter-Cultural Learning’s Country Insights.
You might find similarities with those of this assignment.
Please limit your
response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite
your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your
assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what
you think is the importance of this assignment.Module
6 – The Ideas of Geert Hofstede: Similar Countries & Online Information
Sources
Objectives
The aim of this
assignment is to expose learners to the information offered by the Canadian
Centre for Cross Cultural Effectiveness and apply this information to the ideas
of Geert Hofstede.
Instructor Comments
When completing these
exercises one might also want to think about the real life applications of
Hofstede’s dimensions and national culture characteristics. In other words show
how can they be used in practice.Bing (2004) suggests a
strong role in the area of training and company orientation initiatives.
For example, when orienting new employees, they can be offered an overview of
cultural differences and how they may influence communications and other
transactions between various parts of a company. In regards to multicultural
workplaces, models can be provided and examples offered of the specific
influence of culture on transactions within multicultural work environments.
Employees who are relocating internationally can be offered an understanding of
their own cultural preferences and those of the country of assignment. Finally,
nuanced global business practices can be developed such as communication
protocols for working across countries.
Assignment
This assignment seeks
to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “How
might the ideas of Geert Hofstede be applied in real life?” You should
base your responses to the following questions on the country cultural descriptions
found on the Website of the Canadian Centre for Inter Cultural Learning.In order to complete
the assignment, please access the CCICL websitehttp://www.intercultures.ca/. On the country
Insights page, please use the Country List scroll bar and choose a country. For
this assignment please choose four countries for comparative purposes. Once a
specific country is chosen, please use the Country Insight scroll bar and
choose ‘culture’. Please recall that the issues covered include making a good
impression, dress, punctuality and formality, preferred managerial qualities,
religion, class ethnicity and gender, relationship building, recommended books,
films and foods, conflicts in the workplace, motivating local colleagues,
in-country activities, national heroes, shared historical events, and
stereotypes.Please answer the
following questions.Which inter-cultural
issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if
any) in Power Distance among the four countries? What are some of the
differences?Which inter-cultural
issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if
any) in Individualism among the four countries? What are some of the
differences?Which inter-cultural
issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if
any) in Masculinity/Femininity among the four countries? What are some of the
differences?Which inter-cultural
issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if
any) in Uncertainty Avoidance among the four countries? What are some of the
differences?Which inter-cultural
issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if
any) in Temporal Orientation among the four countries? What are some of the
differences?Hint: Please look
carefully at the descriptions of the inter-cultural issues and the cultural
dimensions. This should help the matching exercise.Please limit your response
to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your
sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment.
Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is
the importance of this assignment.
