What is culture, and how does it impact global management?


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What is culture, and how does it impact global management?


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What is culture, and how does it impact global management?

• Culture is a shared set of beliefs, values, and behavior patterns common to a group of people.

• Culture shock is the discomfort people sometimes experience when interacting with persons from cultures different from their own.

• Cultural intelligence is an individual capacity to understand, respect, and adapt to cultural differences. • Hall’s “silent” languages of culture include the use of context, time, and interpersonal space.

• Hofstede’s fi ve dimensions of value differences in national cultures are power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism–collectivism, masculinity–femininity, and time orientation. For Discussion Should religion be included on Hall’s list of the silent languages of culture?