CCM - Basics, Hofstede, Globe, Management Tasks

What is culture?

What is Management?

What does a Manager Do?

What is Cross Cultural Management?

Why is understanding culture necessary for a manager?

The concept of culture / Operating levels of culture

The rules of society defining what is good and bad with regard to behavior

The written and unwritten rules of a society

Collective agreements on judgment

Beautiful and not beautiful, right and wrong, good and bad, etc...

Four categories of societies

Society in which religion plays an important role, large families are encouraged, conformity is rewarded, and individualism is rejected

A society in which the interests of the individual come first, bith control is encouraged, and the authoity of the state is recognized

A society where suvivalis the primary concern, people arenot happy and rather intolerant, equality between the sexes has little changed, materialism is predominant

A society in characterized as tolerant and democratic.

What are the four levels of culture as described in the course?

National culture is created and affected by three elements, which?

Give an example each

The course mentioned five institutions which have various effects on shaping and forming the cultural identity of a nation. Name three of them.

What is organizational culture? Give an example

What is corporate culture? Give an example for a shared aspect of it

What is professional culture?

Name an orgnization in which members can have significant enough shared experiences to create an organizational culture

Hofstede's National Cultural dimensions are considered generalizations which descibe tendencies within a cetain cultural group - not concrete applications of behavior by all group members

—> True or False?

A society in which religion plays an impotant role and individualism is rejected

A society in which large families are encouraged and conformity is rewarded

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: attitudes to authority, the distance between individuals in a hierarchy

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: the degree of tolerance for uncertainty or instability

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: independence and interdependence, the loyalty toward oneself and towards a group

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: importance of work goals (earnings, advancement) compared with personal goals (co-operation, relationships)

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: fostering virtues related to the past and present or virtues related to the future

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions.: Tendency of members of a society to pursue “happiness” - engaging in or avoiding pleasure pursuits

Listing:

Hofstede’s National Cultural dimensions

Listing: Cultural Dimensions According to GLOBE project

For the GLOBE project, the measurement reflecting the values and beliefs of a society or organization

For the GLOBE project, the measurement of differences reflecting the actual practices of a society or organization

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the extent to which individuals engage in future oientated behaviors, such as delying gratification, planning, and investing in the future.

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which a collective minimizes gender inequality

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which a collective encourages and rewards individuals for being fair, altuistic, generous, caing, and kind to others.

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which members of a collective expect power to be distributed equally

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the extent to which a society, organization, or group relies on social norms, rules, and procedures to alleviate the unpredictability of future events

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which organizational and societal institutional practices encourage and rewarded collective distribution of resources and collective action

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which individuals express pride, loyalty, and cohesiveness in their organizations or families

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which individuals are assertive, confrontational, and aggressive in their relationships with others

Name the GLOBE project dimension addressing the degree to which a collective encourages and rewards group members for performance improvement and excellence

How many GLOBE clusters are there?

Name the cultural clusters according to GLOBE

GLOBE cluster countries are grouped together based on common factors. What are some of them?

Management Tasks & Cultural Values:

Deciding how the world involved is to be divided up and how it is to be coordinated or executed in order to achieve the organizational objectives. Also involves aranging for the necessay resources required

Management Tasks & Cultural Values:

Monitoring the pefomance of an organization through the utilization of different systems and approaches. Also includes vaious methods for preventing or resolving problems. Differences reflect the relations between the levels of organizational hierarchy as well as the way pefomance is perceived.

Management Tasks & Cultural Values:

Dealing with how the goals and objectives of a company or depatment are established, as well as detemining what actions on an individual level are needed to achieve them

Management Tasks & Cultural Values:

Leading the organization and its employees towards its goals. How management relates to, communicates with, and supevises employees.

Management Tasks & Cultural Values:

The task of hiring employees and allocating them paticular positions within an organization. Also involves giving consideration to enabling people to fulfill their potential within an organization

Management Tasks & Cultural Values (Listing)

MANAGEMENT TASKS:

Virginia is the head of her division. She has just had a meeting with May to plan and set her division pefomance objectives for the coming year. Her next task is to decide what steps she will take in order to ty to achieve those objectives and tun them into operational action. Which management task is she engaged in?

MANAGEMENT TASKS :

Once Virgina makes those plans, she needs to decide which division resources to allocate to the vaious projects she will undertake. She also has to decide which necessay resources to acquire. Which management task is she engaged in?