Cultural Dimensions
Intercultural Communication
Power, Influence, Motivation
Negotiation and Conflict Management
Yucatan Culture
200

This is a type of society where inequality is normal and superiors are superior beings.

What is Large Power Distance?

200

A practice in which a person uses their own cultural values as standard to evaluate other's behaviors.

What is ethnocentrism?

200

This type of power is based on the leader’s skill and knowledge.

What is Expert Power?

200

People will take advantage of you if you use this style too often.

What is Accommodating?

200

It is the typical dance in Yucatan.

What is "Jarana"?

400

The phrase "Boy's don't cry" would be heard in a culture of this type.

What is Masculine Society?

400

The use of hand gestures, facial expressions and body positions to convey a message.

What is non-verbal communication?

400

It is the art of influencing people to do or believe in something.

What is the Art of Persuassion?

400

Refers to how individuals interpret and make sense of a situation and it is one of the main sources of conflict.

What is Perception?

400

Natural pits of water which can be open, semi-open or closed.

What is "Cenote"?

600

Low-context communication is often utilized in this type of societies.

What is an Individualistic Society?

600

A stage in which individuals move in and out of spontaneous yet adaptive communication with members of the new culture.

What is Uncoscious competence stage?

600

You would use these type of power in a crisis or emergency.

What is Coercive Power?

600

It is your optimal substitute when you can't reach an agreement.

What is BATNA?

600

These type of tamales are typical of the Yucatan region.

What are "Vaporcitos"?

800

These orientation stands for the fostering in a society of virtues related to the past and the present

What is a Short-Term Orientation?

800

The best tool to reduce stereotyping.

What is Empathy?

800

This is a motivation driver in which a person wants to make sense of the world and do meaningful contributions to it.

What is Drive to Comprehend?

800

Most deals will end up being closed using this style of conflict resolution.

What is Compromising?

800

He was the founder of the city of Merida.

Who is "Francisco de Montejo"?

1000

People feel healthier and happier in these societies.

What is Indulgent Society?

1000

The branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others.

What is proxemics?

1000

The three elements of the EPO Motivation Equation.

What is Effort, Performance and Outcome?

1000

It is a filter that suggests us to tell only things that are True, Good, and Useful.

What is the Triple Filter of Socrates?

1000

A rhymed phrase often used at the end of a song for compliment or flattery.

What is "Bomba"?