Questions for review

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 480.

1. What is culture?

2. What does culture determine?

3. What is meant by cross cultural differences?

4. How can cultural understanding help us in our day-to-day relationships?

5. What can you say about the role, qualities and tasks of a manager while working across national borders?

6. What is meant by the expression “an effective global manager”? What are the criteria?

7. What is intercultural management? Speak about its main focus.

8. Differentiate between:

b) individualistic and collectivist cultures;

c) masculine and feminine cultures;

d) hierarchical and egalitarian cultures:

e) cautious and risk-taking.

9. What can you say about hidden cultural differences? What difficulties do they often cause?

10. What difficulties is a serious problem for intercultural communication?

11. Speak about the types of cultural differences you know.

12. Differentiate between high- and low-context cultures.

13. What is Edward Hall's contribution to the problem of cross-cultural communication?

14. What differences between the cultures generate problems?

15. How do new employees learn their organisation's culture?

16. What problems can we observe while working with different national or organisational cultures? How have these problems been handled? Were there any tensions between dominant and subordinate cultures?

17. Dwell on the role of humor in various cultures and business.

18. Differentiate between organizational and corporate culture.