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Cultural Values
Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions can help to inform our understanding of our own cultures. My background is mostly Spanish, with a little bit of Pascua Yaqui on my mother's side. I would characterize my culture as having a high power distance where we are taught to always respect authority. This happens in school, church and in the family as well. Everybody has a position within the family and within society, and you must stay within that position. The culture is also very collectivist in that way. I was raised to believe that we work as a unit, without worrying too much about individual goals. The exception is that you are expected to work to make yourself better, which I think reflects more of a traditional American value that has come from being here.
An example of how this works is with my ancestors' grandfather. He was from Andalucia in Spain and was a famous bullfighter....
He had his own nickname and everything - "El Nino de la Palmas." You can take two things from this about my culture. Family is strong and important -- I still carry this heritage with pride and feel a connection to all members of my family because of this. But at the same time, this pride comes from individual accomplishment. So we tend to want to accomplish things and be successful. There is a competitive spirit that fits with Hofstede's masculine culture, but there is a strong sense of the family collective that unifies people within the context of that individual achievement.
With respect to time orientation, there is a longer-term time orientation that I feel, because there is still a connection to the family from the past. I do not always think in the short-term, which is something that people here do, where maybe they do not always know about their family's past, but for me the…
S. (Matviuk, 2010). The Mexican managers believed that individuality (IDV) was essential for them to operate their factories successfully. The fact that their overseas senior management teams did not causes significant conflict. As a result, the Mexican managers chose to create more tacit and explicit knowledge programs so the senior management teams could see how much information was being lost due to their insistence on managing in a strict hierarchy
Geert Hofstede: Cultural Dimensions Please define Power Distance in one sentence and summarize the differences (if any) in Power Distance among France, Italy, Arab World and Indonesia. People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification, but in societies with low power distance, people strive to equalize the distribution of power and demand justification for
Cultural Experience Description The event is more a series of events. I went on vacation with some friends to Miami, and while not everything I experienced on that trip would count as a cultural experience, there is little question that there were some very different experiences. There was the visit to the Haitian restaurant, for example, but the event that stands out the most was my visit to Calle Ocho, the old
Cultural Study of Thailand and Hong Kong Culture has a major impact over ones personality. The way a person communicates and behave, depends upon its culture. Since, culture controls a person's acts invisibly therefore it is not easier for the person to get over with his developed cultural habits and that's what makes him different from others. (Hall, 1983) Since, it is an age of globalization where people from different cultures need
Cultural Distance: How Is it Measured, And How it Impact on Global Marketing Operations The persistence of cultural distances is relevant for the global multinational marketing operations exposed to multiple cultures in their everyday activities. This indicates that marketing across border introduces complexities because it forces global marketers to tailor their approaches and practices to each cultural context they carry out their business activities. As a result, this paper will discuss
7% in Shanghai, 24.5% in Taipei and 46.2% in Hong Kong., the average income of respondents in Taipei was at the maximum income level and in Hong Kong, at the median level overall. The entire sample was highly educated with 80.2% of Shanghai respondents, 79.5% of Taipei respondents and 43.8% of Hong Kong respondents having a university education. The majority of respondent sin Shanghai and Taipei were 18 to 25