1. Definition Kultur

Personal

• Family (Core Value [CV])

• flexibility

• collective

• improvisation

• Politeness

• Humor (CV) Brazilian: sex-humor; French: sarcasm;

Task

• Punktaulity (CV)

• Knowledge

• Structure (CV)

• transparency

• individualism

• Seniority (Dienstalter) (CV)

• Collectiveness

• Hirarchy

• Food (CV)

• Core value

  • Value that is basic and not for discussion

  • Very important

• Normal value

  • Value that is something you can get and change easily

Personality

Culture

Human Nature

• Learned [Familiy, Friendships, …]

• Unconcious (unbewusst gelebt)

• Shared

• Emotionally binded (things why you like it)

• dynamic (Things Change) [Mauerfall, 911, Corona, Krieg in Ukraine, …]

• Ethnocentric (evaluating other (ethno) peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture) ([Tendency that people from a Culture thing they do the best] [if youre stuck in your innovation and lack of open mind youll die!]

• Manager mancher Kulturen verkehren mit Frauen nach der Arbeit

• Celebrations afterwork

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• reflecting about other cultures and their behaviors

• reflecting about yourself

Nation Culture Elemements

Symbols

• Language

• Brandenburger Tor

• Feng Shui (BSH Headquarter Munich)

• Very importand [911: World Trade Center and Pentagon attacket]

Heroes

• Someone who stands for the values (Strong People, …)

Rituals

• Greeting (Handshake)

• Sonntagsbraten

• Things you constantly doing

Values

Behavior out of Water

Values in the Water (The Why for the Behavior)

National Culture

• Region

• Organization

• Soc. class

• Generation

• Gender

• Religion (Western: Christian, Jewish, Islam; Eastern: Hinduismus, Buddhismus, Schintoismus (Japan), Taoismus (Yin&Yang, Hotu)

• Background

Western

• absolute Wahrheit (gut und böse, schwarz weis)

• Das Leben hat einen Anfang und ein Ende

Eastern

• Verschiedene Wege, wie der Mensch sich bessern kann (Cause and Consequenzes): Lebensweise, Reinkarnation

• Das Leben ist ein Kreislauf

4 Kasten

• Brahmanen: Priester [heute: CIOs, Direktore => Rich, HEAD]

• Kshatryas: Krieger und Adelskaste [heute: Direktor, High Rankings ARME]

• Vaishyas: Kaufleute, Landwirte [Bauern, Verkäufer BEINE]

• Shudras: Diener [Straßenputzer, Hausreiniger FÜßE]

You stay in Kast cause you did something bad in your last life

Upper People are arrogant

1. Openness

   • New thinking, welcoming strangers, acceptance

2. Flexibility

   • flexive behavior, flexible judgement

3. Personal autonomy

   • inner purpose, focus on goal

4. Emotional strength

   • resilience, coping, spirit of adventure

5. Perceptiveness

   • attuned, reflected awarness

6. Listerning orientation

   • active listening

7. Transparacy

   • clarity of communication

8. Cultural knowledge

   • information gathering, valuing differences

9. Influencing

   • rapport, range of styles, sensitivity to context

10. Synergy

    • creating new alternatives