BUSMHR 4020 - Exam 1 Questions and Answers New (2024/2025) Solved 100% Correct
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BUSMHR 4020
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BUSMHR 4020
Debates Surrounding the Concept of Culture - ️️the concept of a national culture,
the convergence(homogenizing effect) or divergence (rapid technological
development)of cultures, the concept of an organizational culture, and the effects of
acculturation ( adapt to a new culture) and bicultur...
BUSMHR 4020 - Exam 1
Debates Surrounding the Concept of Culture - ✔️✔️the concept of a national culture,
the convergence(homogenizing effect) or divergence (rapid technological
development)of cultures, the concept of an organizational culture, and the effects of
acculturation ( adapt to a new culture) and biculturation ( keeping both cultures).
Features of Culture - ✔️✔️- value
-attitudes
-beliefs
-behavioral meanings
Culture is systematic and organized
How have globalization forces affected global Managers? - ✔️✔️Economic
Interconnections
- globalization of markets (wine from France) & production (iPhone)
Drivers
- free trade areas
-EU, NAFTA, APCC
-technological changes
Globalization - ✔️✔️the process by which businesses or other organizations develop
international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What global managers do - ✔️✔️-plan
-organize
-staff
-direct
rely on their own judgment, shaped by their experience and training, to understand and
make decisions about their work activities
-rely on other people, their role set, and norms in order to understand how to carry out
their job
Working definition of Culture - ✔️✔️expressed in values, attitude, and behavioral
assumptions of a society
text book definition: Culture is a set of knowledge structures consisting of systems of
VALUES, ATTITUDE, BELIEFS and BEHAVIORAL MEANING that are SHARED by
, members of a SOCIAL GROUP (society) and embedded in its institutions and that are
LEARNED from previous generations
Why do cultures differ and persist? - ✔️✔️they differ b/c they solve :
- different problems
- the same problem in different ways
they persist b/c they solve a problem
Ethnocentrism - ✔️✔️believing all cultures are inferior to yours
- other groups evaluated with reference to ours
- a universal tendency
in-group bias and prejudice - ✔️✔️- universal bias favoring one's own group
- we discriminate when favoring the groups with which we identify
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions - ✔️✔️- Individualism-Collectivism
- Power Distance
- Masculinity-Femininity
- Uncertainty Avoidance (UA)
- and Long-Term--Short-Term Orientation. (LSO)
UA - societies ficus on ways to reduce uncertainty and create stability
LSO - the way society deals with the problem at time
Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck framework - ✔️✔️how society deals with universal problems ( 3
levels each)
compares cultures along six dimensions
Schwarz value survey - ✔️✔️Egalitarianism: recognition of people as moral equals
Harmony: fitting in harmoniously with the environment
Embeddedness: people as embedded in the collective
Hierarchy: unequal distribution of power is legitimate
Mastery: exploitation of the natural or social environment
Affective autonomy: pursuit of positive experiences
Intellectual autonomy: independent pursuit of own ideas
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