The Two Faces of Uncertainty Avoidance: Attachment and Adaptation David S. Baker and Kerry D. Carson University of Louisiana at Lafayette ABSTRACT The authors used a sample of 155 field sales personnel from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand to examine attachment and adaptation as two ways of addressing individual uncertainty avoidance. Results suggest that both attachment and adaptation are used to reduce uncertainty avoidance in the workplace. Individuals low
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clear about your reason for communicating and organise the message to achieve your purpose. Usage of communication channels to the best advantage. For example are you communicating via email or more formal written channels, over the telephone, or face to face? And recognise that your non-verbal communication may be contradicting what you are actually saying, and finally give your receivers the opportunity to respond, so that you can see whether they have understood your message. Cross-cultural communication
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United States (The Hofstede Centre, n.d). This is important because the company has plans to maintain its culture in the new office. The Hofstede Model gives national cultural scores for dimensions such as power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity (The Hofstede Centre, n.d). High power distance implies acceptance of power differences between members of society. Low power distance implies intolerance to uneven distribution of power and therefore there is need for sharing
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important to find two countries that are similar to the United States because, Azure Sky Tea wants to operate their office with the same cultures. 2. Classify possible combinations of countries for location of the Azure Sky Tea’s offices based on the Hofstede model. Include a discussion of the home country’s (U.S.) relative position on the Hofstede scales as compared to other countries. Note: Utilize the Hofsetede module to include all parameters (i.e., individualism, uncertainty, power distance
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Introduction With the initiation of global economy comes an increased interaction between people of different countries and an increase in the need to deal with cultural differences. Thus, there must be an understanding of how the international project will affect people and how people will affect the project. This requires an understanding of economic, demographic, educational, ethical, ethnic, religious, and other characteristic of the people for whom the project affects or who have an interest
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Management Intercultural Management Uncertainty Avoidance By Arina Hadlich Alok Mani Tripathi Program: Master of International Business June, 2013 Contents Essence of Uncertainty Avoidance 3 Uncertainty Avoidance Index 3 Uncertainty Avoidance and Anxiety 4 Uncertainty Avoidance According to Occupation, Gender and Age 5 Uncertainty Avoidance in the Family 5 Uncertainty Avoidance Health and (Un)happiness 6 Uncertainty Avoidance at School 6 Uncertainty Avoidance in Shopping 6 Sources 7 Introduction
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collectivistic societies, offence leads to shame and loss of face. Employer/employee relationships are perceived in moral terms (like a family link), hiring and promotion take account of the employee’s in-group. Management is the management of
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Culture, in my own opinion, is a unique system of values and norms that are believed by a group of people who live in the same society. Since culture is unique, Geert Hofstede tried to study the differences. After the study, he proposed five dimensions to measure the cultural difference between nations. The following parts will explain Hofstede Framework briefly. The first dimension is Power Distance. It is a tool to measure the power difference between levels in organization. In a group with
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addressed by the GLOBE researchers was which measurement standards to use so that they could be precise about the similarities and differences among numerous societal and organizational cultures. After a thoroughgoing literature review as well as two pilot studies, the team identified nine "cultural dimensions" that would serve as their units of measurement, or (in research language) "independent variables."Cultural dimensions have been around as long as the field of intercultural research (i.e
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The effect of cultural distance on entry mode choice: the moderating effect of language diversity Name: Rajae El Aiachi Student number: 10202773 Teacher: Dr Johan Lindeque MSc. In Business Administration – Theories of International Management Date: 27-09-2015 Abstract (50 Words) Previous studies have shown that the choice of entry mode depends on various types of aspects, containing also cultural distance between countries (Arora and Fosfuri, 2000). However, there is not a lot of consensus
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