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The Culture Challenge in International Business - Coggle Diagram
The Culture Challenge in
International Business
What Is Culture?
Marriage and family systems
Mating, childbearing, and education.
Educational institutions
Teach and learn the way of life of this particular society.
Economic systems
Forms of distribution of resources.
Social control systems
If societies are to survive, they must establish some ways of preserving social
order.
Supernatural belief systems
The elements of Culture
Dress and appearance
Garments, adornments or lack thereof, body decorations that are distinctive by culture.
Sense of self and space
Communication and language
Verbal, non-verbal distinguishes one group from another.
Food and feeding habits
Food selection, preparation, presented and eaten often differs by culture.
Time and Time consciousness
Sense of time differs by culture, some are exact and other are relative.
Relationships
Social structures
Gender
Men or Women or another social group association refers to such socially learned behaviors and attitudes as styles of dress and activity preferences
Religions
The study of cultural differences
Hofstede framework.
Compare culture along four value dimensions
Power distance
Uncertainty avoidance
Individualism
Masculinity
Kluckhohn–Strodtbeck framework
Compares cultures along six
cultural dimensions.
Culture in the Workplace
The effects of culture on some management functions are noticeable when its attempt to impose own values and beliefs on those from another society
Cross-cultural management and training