Culture And Management Flashcards
Define culture
F=refers to norms attitude value and beliefs within a society
What are 1 important aspects of culture
- competitive advantage by bringing together diverse people and experiences
What are some variables that affect management functions.
National variables - political legal economical
Sociocultural - religion education language
Cultural - belief norms values
Attitude - work, time individualism.
Individual and group behaviour - ethics productivity and motivation
What are organisational cultures?
Varied from company to company
Represents expectations norms and goals
What are 4 effects of culture on management
Convergence - changing a management style for it to become similar to other magnet styles.
Self-reference criterion - subconscious reference point of your own cultural value.
Parochialism - when host country participant expects home country participant to instantly fall into line with host country patterns
Ethnocentrism - the attitude of those who presume there way of working is better than the rest.
Describe 3 of the cultural dimensions of GLOBE
Assertiveness
Humane orientation
Future orientation
Performance orientation.
What is Assertiveness in globe
How much people should be tough, competitive confrontational vs modest and tender
Low - japan
High USA
What is performance orientation
Concerns with improvement and excellence and whether people are encouraged to strive for improvement
Low: Venezuela
High USA
What is humane orientation
The extent to which people are rewarded for being fair generous and kind
Low Germany
High in Ireland
What are the 5 steps in Hofstede’s value dimensions
Power distance.
Uncertainty avoidance.
Individualism and collectivism
Masculinity
Long/short term orientation
In Hofstedes value dimension describe power distance
The extent to which the society accepts the unequal distribution of power in institution
In hofstedes value dimension what is uncertainty avoidance
People feel threatened by ambiguous situations
What is individualism and collectivism. In (HVD)
Individualism - look after themselves and their family but ignore social needs
Collectivism -
