...to the Africa, Nigeria was its first destination. ABC Ltd. ABC Ltd., is a leading automobile assembling company based in Lagos, Nigeria. The company was incorporated in June 14, 2010. The company usually imports vehicles body parts and assembles them. It sells its products to the local market. Steps in unifying the different cultures between the two companies Having completed the merging of the two companies, the legal and financial aspect, culture clash pose a big challenge to the success of the merger. As the HRM of the XYZ Inc., the following are suggested steps to ensure that the two cultures work together to obtain the desired results of the two companies: 1. Set cultural integration agenda Organization’s culture can be defined as all the shared values, beliefs and behaviors that dictate how people do things in the organization. To integrate the two cultures, we first need to define cultural objectives in broad terms. And as the HRM, I have the responsibility to ensure that the objectives are realized. Setting the cultural agenda necessarily requires tough decisions to be made. This decisions involve whether the merger should adopt one firm’s culture or to integrate the two. The choice will depend on the one that will have a greater value of the deal. 2. Diagnosing the cultural differences that matter The second step is to pin-point significant cultural differences between XYZ and ABC. Diagnostics will identify and measure the differences among people, units, geographical...
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...Different dimensions of culture Cultural differences between countries can be difficult to work through for businesses. The actions and believes of others in different cultures can be shocking and sometimes viewed as unethical by other cultures. Imagine the problems these differences can create when in negotiations with a different culture. Working through those differences has become a necessity for business today in the fast growing global market. To successfully do business in the international market it has become critical to understand other cultures that you may be doing business with. To fully understand different cultures we need to explore the dimensions of different cultures. To effectively begin to understand different cultures you will need to identify whether the culture is a high-context culture or a low context-culture. In high-context culture, people rely heavily on nonverbal and subtle situational messages when communicating with others (Kreitner, 2009 pg 97). This type of culture is highly important when doing business in Japan and Hong Kong. People from low-context cultures convey messages and meaning primarily with words (Kreitner, 2009 pg 97). This type of culture is highly important when doing business in Germany and Great Britain. To gain even further in-depth understanding of other cultures we will look at nine different dimensions. The first dimension to focus on is the power distance. This dimension analysis the extent to which the less powerful...
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...non-European immigration since the 1960s have made the United States the nation with the highest immigrant population in the world” also stated by Molly Doane in her statements at http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/United-States-of-America.html and so because of this today most of the cultures that are a part of America and its history would be the Italians, Jewish, and the English cultures. This is because before the revolutionary war people emigrated from Britain to America to the 13 colonies, then there were the Italians who immigrated to America because of the English population saying it is a land of the free and people would live better and richer than they already were. The Italians are most famous for creating the mafia and godfathers that people have heard or known about today. The Jewish have more history with America than the Italians. The Americans helped free the Jews and leads them to America so they can live with freedom, without fear of dying by another person’s hand just because of what he or she are, and being able to make a life of their own for themselves and their family. They immigrated to America and created another culture to the list after the first World War. The Jewish culture is mostly famous for the Hebrew language and the Hanukah holiday for Christmas. Between these...
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...miscommunication still happens all the time especially when people have different culture. According to Yu Xu, and Ruth Davidhizar, the authors of Journal of Nursing Education, "Culture is communication and communication is culture". Our communication is always affected by the problem of culture intelligence including backgrounds, habits of communication and languages, and all these factors cause miscommunication. First, different backgrounds are definitely a main issue that affects communication. Background means your family and your experience of education, living conditions. Since all countries have their own living style, religion and beliefs, people who are from different countries might have extremely different backgrounds. We might learn and understand things in different ways; therefore, battle might be easily formed when we do not know each other very well. According to Kaplan, S., and Cunningham, C., the author of Eight Quick Tips for Improving Global Cross-Cultural Communications, Different backgrounds might affect our life style. If we live in a same house with people from different country, different living styles may cause miscommunication. Referring to FitzGerald, Helen Gay, authors of Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, “If people have no knowledge of the cultural values of others and the way in which they determine attitudes as well as ways of talking. “ Second, different habits of communication may affect our communication as we may not know...
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...: NGUYEN BACH NGA Group : 8 Student : HO VAN KET Class : ANHSPK10D Student code : 13F7011114 ******* Hue, 2016 ******* TOPIC FOR END-OF-COURSE ASSIGNMENT CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION When people from different cultures communicate, misunderstandings can happen. What are the possible reasons for those misunderstandings and what should people do in order to avoid them and prevent them from turning into cultural conflicts? Please limit your answer to no more than 1200 words. Misunderstanding is a communication phenomenon that we often experience in our life. Especially, when we communicate with people from different cultures, the misunderstanding is inevitable. In my opinion, the main reasons for case is owing to language differences, different verbal communication styles and non-verbal misinterpretation. The important thing here is what will we have to do in order to avoid misunderstanding, does not let it results in cultural conflicts. The first reason of misunderstanding is language differences which the most common communication barriers which cause misunderstandings and misinterpretations between people. The fact is that in the world there are many countries and many different languages. So when two people that use two own language to communicate, the communication will not be effective, even it leads to misunderstand what speaker means. For example, a Canadian goes to visit a Cotu ethnic minority group in Thua Thien...
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...-------------------10 Introduction United Kingdom is a region with a large population. Also with the high diversity of the population, people tend to have different culture backgrounds. Walking along the streets in NTIC, you might find yourself in another Europe city as there is a large amount of African, Chinese, Indian and some people from other culture backgrounds. So this issue leads to the research which the author wants to dig in, will they really get along well with each other with different culture backgrounds or are they really that different? Also the author has set three objectives as followed which this research needs to complete. Objectives: 1. Find out does the cultural differences exist or not. 2. Analyse the main reason that is causing the cultural differences. 3. Find a way to improve the misunderstanding of cultural differences if it does exist. Literature Review The so-called “culture” is defined as those people who live in a same environment and they are sharing the same “common psychological procedures”. Moreover, culture is not just how this individual characteristic acts, also with a same experience in the common social. Mostly a same education is a background of some psychological activities. Different people from different countries or places may have different...
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...The Nature of Relationships in Different Cultures Hofstede defined culture as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another”. From research analysis Hofstede was able to classify the different countries on a continuum from extremely individualistic to extremely collectivist. Relationships in individualistic and collectivist societies differ in the degree to which they are voluntary or non-voluntary. Individualistic societies generally have a high degree of social & geographical mobility, allowing frequent interaction with a large number of people and thus a greater choice in romantic relationships. Collectivist societies have less social and geographical mobility thus people have less choice about whom they interact with. Also, Interactions with strangers are rare and are often tied to other factors such as family or economic resources. Cultures also differ in the degree to which relationships reflect the interests of the individual or the family. In individualistic societies, individual interests are deemed more important & romantic relationships are more likely to be formed on the basis of love & attraction. Also, relationships tend to be short-term as one can end the relationship if one is unhappy whereas In collectivist cultures, relationships are more likely to reflect the interests of the entire family and are long-term. This is because, one cannot end the relationship despite being unhappy because they need to...
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...For different cultures and ways of life that I have been presented to in my life, I am certainly open to new values and cultures. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t open to different cultures and different ways of life. I grew up in a small town in northern Ontario, in which there wasn’t a lot of different cultures. So, when I moved around and moved to Montreal, I fully embraced all cultures and all different ethnicities. I think that I am this way because of my background (I’m Aboriginal) and I would hope that the outside world and society don’t stereotype me or judge me just based on looks and my culture. That’s why I’ve never had a ‘culture shock’ or judged people’s culture that I’ve never seen or met before. I go through the stages of culture shock quite quickly and adjust to different locations or cultures rapidly. For self-disclosure, I feel that there is very few people that I can trust in my life. There are different situations that I disclose to different people. I am very close to my family, especially my mother. I disclose more to her than others in my family. For my friend’s, There are very few friend’s that I disclose personal information too. There are my best friends that I am very close to and...
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...Running head: PRACTICE OF HUMAN SERVICES ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES AND POPULATIONS Practice of Human Services across Different Cultures and Populations Walden University Practice of Human Services across Different Cultures and Populations In today’s society, demographics and cultural factors has caused organizations to facilitate change. The changing of new organizational patterns are definitely needed due to the increase in the American cultural patterns, (Carter, 2000). “Typically organizational literature dealt with how diversity, rather than cultural patterns, may influence corporate culture. Although organization scholars have paid attention to issues concerning diversity, less attention has been paid to examining the influence of dominant American patterns upon organization,” (Carter, 2000). Upon my completion at Walden University, I hope to become a Child and Family Counselor. As human service professionals, it is important that you are competent and aware of your client’s culture. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, “Child welfare workers can improve their practice with children, youth, and families by increasing their knowledge and appreciation of different cultures,” (US Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2013). An organizations knowledge on an individual’s culture and climate can help to influence social structure. As defined, “organizational culture refers to the shared norms, beliefs, and behavioral expectations that drive behavior and...
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...When watching The Bare Bears, one amazing thing I have noticed is that the friendship among them. They are so close to each other, but when a girl later involved in the friendship. Things seems have changed. Panda fell in love with the girl, but they other bears see the girl as a good friend. Later, there are funny things happen because of this. I was wondering what is this thing that makes friendship different between opposite sex. According to this, the question I used to lead my research is “What is the difference between same sex and different sex friendship?” This question is kind of broad and what I intend to do is looking to some specific aspects about it, especially gender. I searched a few research articles and found some that fits...
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...attachment types across different cultures AO1: 1. Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg 1988 Method: meta-analysis of 32 studies. Findings: cultural similarity – secure attachment is most common in both collectivist and individualist societies. Cultural difference – more insecure resistant in collectivist (27% in Japan while 3% in UK). 1.5% greater variation within cultures. Shows there is variation both between and within cultures. 2. Ainsworth Uganda Project 1967 Method: observed different universals in attachment behaviour in SS. Findings: cultural similarity - infants observed in Uganda used mother as a secure base for exploration which is similar to UK and US cultures. Suggests there isn’t cultural variation. 3. Grossman and Grossman 1991 Method: studied German children in SS. Findings: cultural difference – German children found to be more insecure avoidant than securely attached due to individualistic culture and emphasis on independence, unlike collectivist cultures which emphasise dependence and cooperation. Suggests there are cultural differences. AO2: 1. Weakness of Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg = small samples. TIAPB only 1 study was in UK, Sweden and China and 2 in Israel, so to base judgement about attachment types of a whole nation on one study is biased not representative of that population. Therefore reliability decreases because findings are hard to generalise as study is not representative or applicable to all children in that culture. 2. Weakness = biased...
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...ASSESSMENT TOOL: EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT Heritage Assessment Tool: Evaluation of Different Cultures and Individual Views of Health Micaela Simon Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion 429V Melanie Escobar RN MSN August 31, 2012 Heritage Assessment Tool: Evaluation of different Cultures and Individual Views of Health The Heritage Assessment Tool can be used as as a reliable tool to assess, health maintenance, protection and restoration of individual cultural beliefs. This evaluation helps meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality holistic care. The purpose of this paper is to explore the Hispanic, Native American, Chinese, and the author’s own personal cultural beliefs from perspectives of health traditions, maintenance, promotion and restoration of health. The objectives are to identify different families and the own common health traditions based of the cultural heritage. Evaluate and discuss how the families ascribe to traditions and practices. The evaluation of these different cultures reveal similarities and differences in traditions that may help provide holistic optimal health delivery. The definition of cultural awareness is an individual’s awareness of their understanding between themselves and other backgrounds, attitudes to health and specific cultural values (Cultural awareness, n.d). Cultural competence refers to knowledge and skills that must be obtained to care for culturally different backgrounds (Spector,...
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...ships inside the Lager. In describing the gray zone, Levi discusses the different roles of prisoners assigned by the Nazi. The prisoners that did the work were seen as being more privileged which at the end of the day helped them get more food and live better. Therefore, the concept of the gray zone is analyzing the difference between the privileged and the non-privileged in the Lager. The difference can be seen by the tasks that the prisoners carried out, for example, one of the groups were seen as, “Low ranking functionaries... sweepers, kettle washers, night watchmen, bed smoothers... checkers of lice and scabies, messengers, interpreters, assistants’ assistants. In general, these people poor devils like ourselves, who worked full time like everyone else but who for an extra half liter of soup were willing to carry out these and other ‘tertiary’ functions.” This group was seen as harmless and not much different than the underprivileged. The other group of prisoners in the Lager was seen as the enemies to their own people. They were referred to as the Kapos who were “free to commit the worst atrocities on their subject as punishment for any transgressions, or even without any motive whatsoever: until the end of 1943 it was not unusual for a prisoner to be beaten to death by a Kapo without the latter having to fear any sanctions.” The prisoners that became part of the Kapo were seen as permanent. They were not accepted back by their people if they were willing to give...
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...Different Cultures In Marriage And Dating When someone talks about marriage, he is talking about commitment, which is one of the most important and happiness moment in life. Marriage is a commitment that makes people happy and bring joy to your life, really is more then a commitment. You are forming a family by your own, and that is one of the grates and magical moment in the world when you see your son for the first time and you are so happy. But in every country is different this wonderful commitment, because of the cultures, the religion, etc. and all this reasons brings different methods of a marriage, but still this big important commitment all around the world. In United States of America, the main religion is the Catholic. So marriage is a very important commitment. To get married you need to be a catholic, who all ready have been baptized, have done the first communion and finally do the confirmation, that consist in reaffirm you faith on God and in the catholic religion. United States of America has a big problem with marriage, because they have a big rate of percentage on divorces. United States has 4.95 per 1,000 people letting him the country with the biggest rate of divorce. The weddings celebrations are part of the traditional marriage. After the ceremony the couple goes to there house, a restaurant or a facility with some friends to celebrate the special occasion and to finish they greatest day...
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...Name: Adaeze Nwaorgu REG. NO: 1223551 “Managing across culture”: how a manager should manage a team of staff from different cultural backgrounds INTRODUCTION An over view of the international market has proven that cultural integration in the work place is becoming in today’s global economy, working with people from different cultures is becoming a standard. It brings various productivity and improved performance but great challenges, misunderstandings and conflicts might be introduced in an organization if not properly managed. The key to successful business lies in the managers’ ability to motivate their staff and to achieve this, an understanding of what drives their staff is necessary. Reactions and interpretations of managers’ actions and decisions by staff could be astonishing especially when people from very different cultures work together. Hence the need for organisations to train their managers to become inter-culturally competent in order to ensure their staff continues to be motivated and productive has become pertinent. The main issues to be discussed in this report are: * How culture influences working styles * Different management styles * The importance of training managers to become inter-culturally competent HOW CULTURE INFLUENCES WORKING STYLES According to Hofsted (1980; cited in Alessandra Vecchi &Louis Brennan, 2009, p.11), managers’ approach to quality and the need for change is greatly associated with cultural factors which he grouped...
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