Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter 5
Agenda/Topics To Be Covered
1. Required adaptation
2. The impact of American culture on management
style
3. Management styles around the world
4. Gender bias in International Business
5. Business ethics
6. Culture’s influence on strategic thinking
7. A synthesis, relationship-oriented versus
information-oriented cultures
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6. Culture’s influence on
strategic thinking
What is "Culture"?
Examples:
Small religious congregations, a party with friends, family
gatherings, expensive gourmet restaurants and neighborhood
restaurants with a regular clientele, undergraduate on-campus
friendships, regular pick-up games, hosting a friend in your home
overnight.
High context
• Less verbally explicit communication, less written/formal
information
• More internalized understandings of what is communicated
• Multiple cross-cutting ties and intersections with others
• Long term relationships
• Strong boundaries- who is accepted as belonging vs. who is
considered an "outsider"
• Knowledge is situational, relational.
• Decisions and activities focus around personal face-to-face
relationships, often around a central person who has authority.
Entering High and
Low Context
Situations?
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