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Is a business custom (as in a foreign country) that must be recognized and accommodated?
What is Cultural Imperative
As a guide to adaptation, all who wish to deal with individuals, firms, or authorities in foreign countries should be able to meet 10 basic criteria: Name 3 of criterias
What is (1) open tolerance, (2) flexibility, (3) humility, (4) justice/fairness, (5) ability to adjust to varying tempos, (6) curiosity/ interest, (7) knowledge of the country, (8) liking for others, (9) ability to command respect, and (10) ability to integrate oneself into the environment?
Although women now constitute Nearly _______ percent of the professional and technical U.S. workforce, they represent relatively small percentages of the employees whoa re chosen for international assingments-less than 20 percent.
What is 60 percent?
A business custom (as in a foreign country) to which adaptation is helpful but not necessary.
What is Cultural Elective?
A key-value underlying the American business system is reflected in the notion of a
What is a never-ending quest for improvement?
An international organization called __________ is dedicated to "curbing corruption through international and national coalitions encouraging governments to establish and implement effective laws, policies, and anti-corruption programs."
What is Transparency International (TI)?
A business custom (as in a foreign country) in which an outsider must not participate.
Perhaps most fundamental to Western management practices is the notion that
What is competition is crucial for efficiency?
In normal business operations, difficulties arise in making decisions, establishing policies, and engaging in business operations in five broad areas: Name 2 of them.
(1) employment practices and policies, (2) consumer protection, (3) environmental protection, (4) political payments and involvement in political affairs of the country, and (5) basic human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Term used by Edward T. Hall for the non-spoken and symbolic meanings of time, space, things, friendships, and agreements, and how they vary across cultures; from Hall’s seminal article “The Silent Language of Business.”
What is Silent Language?
is an instrument for social action is the fundamental concept of U.S. corporations.
What is an independent enterprise?
Alternatively, Japanese culture is high context, collectivistic, high power distance, far from English, polychronic (in part), linguistically indirect, and background focused, and it achieves efficiency through reduction of transaction costs; therefore, it is properly categorized as a:
What is relationship-oriented culture?
The use of funds, usually illegally, to influence decisions made by public employees and government officials. Such payments often range into the millions of dollars in international commerce.
What is Bribery?
The very strong belief in the United States that business decisions are based on
What is objective analysis?
We see these cultural differences reflected in Hofstede’s results—on the IDV scale, the United States is 91, the United Kingdom is 89, Germany is __, and Japan is 46.
What is 67 on the IDV scale?