ethnicity
culture of people in a given geographic region
usually a nation
Discuss the relationship of values, religion and communication with culture
values: beliefs that people hold important to them and what they live their lives by
religion: every culture has different religions and might not be exposed to others around the world
communication: every culture has different ways of communicating with each other
communication
low context v high context
globalization
countries coming together as one big global economy
the way countries and people interact and integrate when doing global business
evaluating
direct v indirect negative feedback
Trompenaars
7 dimensions
is a framework for cross-cultural communication applied to general business and management
GLOBE
9 dimensions
To determine how people from different cultures viewed leadership
cultural diversity
variety of different cultures
the importance of understanding cultures as part of the context for transacting global business
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Discuss the business implications of a country’s political and economic environment on global
business
Political: Risk, political stability, tax implications, trade system, GDP ( people’s ability to pay) and economy awareness, understand the market, currency and exchange rate, unemployment rate,
why is knowing a countries legal system important
A country’s law regulates business practices, defines business policies, rights, and obligations involved in business transactions
deciding
consensual v top down
scheduling
linear v flexible time
leading
egalitarian v hierarchical
Erin meyer
8 dimensions
identify what is typical in their culture but different from others to open a dialogue of sharing, learning and understanding
Culture
group of people
collective
set of learned behaviors
disagreeing
confrontational v avoids confrontation
Discuss the business implications of a country’s legal system as well as the ethical and human rights
aspects of the country’s culture
Risk evaluated with legal system, well being of workers in legal system, realizing what is ethical in diff countries, properly structure business, ability to enforce contracts, rules for dissolving disputes, corruption ( what extent can you trust what is said), protection of workers and how that might fall on you
culture map
communication evaluating persuading leading deciding trusting disagreeing scheduling
persuading
concept first v application first
nationalism
identify with ones own nation, and promote its culture and interests over other nations
Hofstede
says culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group of people from another
6 layers
trusting
task-based v relationship-based