Cultural environment in business

Cultural collision

-Company: practices are less effective than expected.

Employees: too difficult for them to adapt.

Cultural diversity:

-Sensivity VS adaptation

-Nation as reference point.

-Managers consider that the analysis of each country may be difficult.

-Cultures are shaped and evolve in a different way.

-Religion

Social stratification

High context cultures

Low context cultures

Cultural shock

Frustration

Depression and confussion

Fascination

Comfort and satisfaction

Latinos, China, India, Spain, Arabs.

Germany, Russia, England, Austria, Northern Europe.

Strategies

Values system

Share the benefits

Cost benefit analysis of the change

Resistance to excessive change

Participation

Opinion leadership

Programming

Learning abroad