2 forms of Influence of culture/nation on
organizations
Intercultural competence Def
the ability to deal constructively with people from
different backgrounds and to cooperate with them successfully
Intercultural Management Def
a combination of knowledge, insights and skills to deal with national and regional
cultures
Tasks of Intercultural Management
Tasks of Intercultural Management (Objective)
culurual universal circumstances
Defining “Culture”
The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners
What culture is/is not
Levels of uniqueness in “mental programming”
4 forms of culture
4 Culture’s origins
Culture as an onion ring
Symbols - Culture as an onion ring
words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning within a culture
Heroes - Culture as an onion ring
persons, alive or dead, real or imaginary, who possess characteristics highly prized in the culture
Rituals - Culture as an onion ring
collective activities that are technically superfluous but are socially essential within a culture
Practices - Culture as an onion ring
Symbols, heroes, and rituals visible to an observer; their cultural meaning lies in the perception by insiders
Values - Culture as an onion ring
broad, nonspecific feelings of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal, rational and irrational feelings that are often unconscious, cannot be observed as such but are manifested in behavior
What are values?
Feelings with an added arrow
Pairing of values
The changing values in a snapshot
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