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Material culture includes
To really understand another culture
Gift giving in many cultures is marked by
Kinship and free association are
One danger of using the culture frameworks introduced in Module 3 is that of applying
them prescriptively because:
The presence of tattoos suggests social outcasts universally, based on
The two categories of social groups or institutions are
When you assert that a certain aspect of your own culture is superior, you are probably
exhibiting
E. T. Hall suggests that to learn another culture, you have to undergo extensive training or
spend
Production managers have discovered that their introduction of new production methods
across cultures is affected by varying attitudes toward
Accounting controls directly relate to a culture’s assumptions about
Two basic ways to understand the role of leadership are to provide direction for a
collection of individuals and to
Leadership may be influenced by sociocultural forces, and its model might be
The only cultural framework we describe in this text that is based on communication
styles is
Hall suggests that communication tends to be implicit and indirect in
Monochronic cultures tend to be
In high context cultures, relationships tend to be
Hall’s high and low context is based on communication styles, and specifically on the role
of
Fill in the Blank Questions
Contradictions between the culture’s values you expect to see, based on your use of the
frameworks and your growing experience, and what you actually observe are known as
______________.
__________ is linked with the global mind-set, because it is a tool that helps us synthesize
across diversity boundaries.
An openness to diversity along with an ability to pull ideas together across boundaries
created by that diversity are the foundation of a __________________.
Magdi Batato of Nestlé Malaysia introduced ____________________, despite the common
assumption that due to cultural values they would not succeed.
The second aspect of Trompenaars’s time dimension describes whether actions are
sequential (linear) or _____________.
In past-focused cultures (Trompenaars), history often plays an active role to help
understand the present and change moves _______.
______________ cultures consider who a person is in terms of his or her family lineage, age,
or other attributes.
People in neutral cultures (Trompenaars) tend to withhold emotional expression, while
people in _____________ cultures are much more expressive.
People in universalist cultures apply rules across the board, whereas people in
___________________ cultures consider the context before they apply the rule.