Cultural Frameworks
Who developed the cultural framework that includes dimensions such as power distance and uncertainty avoidance?
Who is Geert Hofstede?
Managing business activities when employees, customers, or operations involve more than one country.
What is international management?
The shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of a group or society.
What is culture?
The term used to describe interactions between people from different cultures.
What is cross-cultural?
When a company begins operating or doing business in countries outside its home country, it is doing this.
What is going international?
What is the degree to which a society emphasizes traditional masculine qualities such as advancement and earnings?
What is masculinity in Hofstede's framework?
What is one reason international management is important to companies?
What is reaching new customers
Name one workplace behavior that can vary between cultures.
What is Leadership, teamwork, punctuality, or decision-making
What occurs when people from different cultures misunderstand each other's expectations, this can occur in the workplace.
What is conflict or miscommunication?
A company may expand internationally to gain access to these.
What are new customers and markets?
What is performance orientation in the GLOBE framework?
What is the degree to which societies emphasize performance and achievement?
Why do companies need to understand how another country may react to their products or services?
What is understanding the country's market and culture?
Making generalized assumptions about people based on their membership in a particular cultural group.
What is stereotyping?
What is one type of cross-cultural training?
What are language lessons, learning local customs, or role-playing?
Differences in these can make international expansion more difficult for a company.
What are laws and regulations?
Why did the GLOBE researchers group countries into cultural clusters?
What is to group countries with similar cultural characteristics?
What can international management help companies increase?
What are profits?
What is one way culture can affect the workplace?
What is influencing how employees communicate and work together?
What are two challenges an employee might face during a cross-cultural assignment?.
What are customs, language, or workplace expectations?
A business arrangement in which a company allows another party to operate using its brand and business model.
What is franchising?
True or False: Hofstede’s cultural framework and the GLOBE framework both help managers understand cultural differences between societies. (Explain)
What is True - Both frameworks help explain cultural differences between countries and societies.
Name TWO factors international managers need to consider when entering a foreign country.
What are culture, politics, economics, laws, regulations, labor markets, or consumer preferences?
A company changes its products and marketing to fit a different country's culture. What does this show?
What is cultural adaptation?
Give ONE way a manager can prepare employees for working in another culture.
What is cross-cultural training?
Why might an international company work with a local partner instead of managing everything itself?
What is to understand the local culture and customers?