Model of culture-
Time focus- Polychronic- because they focus on the longer term with concern for building relationships over time, giving priority to people over plans. Involving people and information. Doing 2 things at once
Time orientation- American countries are more future orientated. They want to achieve long term goals.
Space- if a Chinese business partner invites you to his home, you are invited to his private space, by doing so, the Chinese is hoping to get to know his partner well with a view to establishing close relationships. This can prove to be an important basis for business deals.
Power- china adopts both hierarchy and equality, subordinates like working with bosses while at the same time they like being supervised and expect bosses to show initiative.
Communication- US is a low context country their messages are clear and explicit, however many Asian countries are high context ASIA(HIGH)======(LOW)AMERICA
Hofstede’s
Collectivism- Sara knew that china believes in the will of the group rather that of an individual, their society maintains harmony and saving face, hence she reprimanded a man privately which shows her cultural understanding. Whereas in the US are highly individualistic. When the work in groups they perform less in comparison to working alone. The Chinese culture value helping the group succeed.
Masculinity- Sarah was not treated with a high degree of femineity, rather a high degree of masculinity, however being raised in America , they are expected to lie in the middle as American women are encouraged to work and families often are able to get some support for child care through maternity leave and day care centres.
Long Term/ Short Term- managers in Asian countries are ore future orientated and so stride toward long term goals and are willing to sacrifice short term profits for a valued investment in the future. Whereas countries like us place a higher value on short term results and profitability