Examples of open culture in the following topics:
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- When listening to a speaker who comes from a different cultural background, work to set aside any preexisting ideas about that culture and focus on best understanding the speaker's specific message.
- What defines culture?
- Culture guides language use, appropriate forms of dress, and views of the world.
- Because of this, an open-minded listener will work hard to focus on what the speaker is actually saying regardless of how they're saying it.
- Maintaining this kind of cultural sensitivity requires some basics of open-minded listening: suspending judgment and employing empathy whenever possible.
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- Outlining the way culture is assessed, the pros and cons of multiculturalism and how culture is transmitted is central to management.
- In both cases, multiculturalism yields open dialogue, equality and understanding.
- Cultural assessment begins with awareness.
- Cultural transmission, or cultural learning, is the tendency of a society or culture to pass on new information and generate new norms.
- Cultural learning, therefore, is fairly natural as long as individuals within a diverse community are open minded to interacting with the cultural trends.
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- The process of ingraining culture into an organization is simply one of communicating and integrating a broad cultural framework throughout the organizational process.
- While there are a variety of cultural perspectives and many organizational elements within a culture, the initial process of instilling culture is relatively consistent from a managerial perspective.
- Organizational structures: The choice of an organizational structure has enormous cultural implications for openness of communication, organization of resources, and flow of information.
- Power structures: Power and culture are often intertwined: the degree to which specific individuals are free (or not) to make decisions is indicative of the openness and fluidity of the organization.
- A looser and more open work environment (limited routines, high individual freedom) may create more innovation while heavily structured routines may create more efficiency and predictability.
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- Corporate cultures that display characteristics of global awareness and inclusion capture critical benefits of workplace diversity.
- Enabling an inclusive culture is highly advantageous in capturing the value of diversity.
- Inclusive cultures are focused on values that empower open-mindedness, promote healthy conflict, value new perspectives, and avoid judgmental attitudes.
- The primary threats to an inclusive culture are groupthink, discrimination, stereotyping, and defensiveness.
- Creating an inclusive culture means not only stating support for it via various corporate-wide outlets, but also working towards an ideal level of open and inclusive behavior.
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- This cultural competence is imperative for managers to succeed in a globalized world.
- Still, cross-cultural competence is a relatively vague concept.
- Managers who are interested in developing the capacity to think about and isolate differences between people must be open to immersing themselves into as many cultures as possible.
- Cultural identity – Coming to terms with another culture requires cultural self-awareness, which creates a critical benchmark.
- To attain a high level of cultural awareness, along with intercultural communication skills, requires thinking about and understanding different people and their respective cultures.
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- Understanding culture and the influence that it exercises on organizations, has motivated a wide variety of studies and perspectives working to define and examine what constitutes 'organizational culture'.
- Denison - Similar to Hofsede, Denison studied organizational culture in pursuit of idenitfying critical dimensions affecting internal culture.
- Cross-cultural management requires cultural intelligence (sometimes referred to as 'CQ') along with an open-minded and empathetic mindset.
- Observing the cultural tendencies of an organization and finding ways to accommodate them, and their interaction with other cultural predispositions, requires experience, motivation and self-awareness (of one's own cultural predispositions).
- It provides a strong platform for cross-cultural managers to be insightful decision makers.
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- People from different cultures find it hard to communicate not only due to language barriers but also because of cultural differences.
- The most recognized and utilized in the field is Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory, which encompasses six cultural deviations highly relevant to business managers.
- PDI rating represents a stronger acceptance of authority in a given cultural
- Source: Hofstede's dimensions, as utilized in this figure, are derived from Wikipedia's open source content.
- Explain how cultural differences can pose as barriers to international business
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- Animal culture refers to cultural learning in non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors.
- Animal culture refers to cultural learning in non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors.
- The question of the existence of culture in non-human societies has been a contentious subject for decades due to the inexistence of a concise definition for culture.
- One of the first signs of culture in early humans was the use of tools.
- Some examples of these activities that have been shown by varied animals are opening oysters, swimming, washing food, and unsealing tin lids.
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- A high-performing culture is a results-driven business culture focused on generating efficiency and completing objectives.
- A high-performing culture is defined by a focus on generating and accomplishing objectives.
- An effective way to achieve high-performing culture is to create high-performing teams.
- Open and clear communication – As always with group dynamics, communication is key to success.
- Instill open-mindedness and dispel social fears of disagreeing.
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- When considering the current trends in franchising from an international perspective, it's important to understand why organizations do this, why individuals are interested in opening a franchise, and why governments are open to allowing this approach.
- For the franchiser, success is closely tied to understanding the culture and language of a given area.
- As of 2010, opening a McDonald's franchise could cost anywhere from around $1 million to around $2 million (USD).
- Considering the cultural advantages discussed earlier, franchising has also seen some unique trends in adopting cultural perspectives and adapting product offerings.
- A nice example of adopting cultural tastes can be see in the fast food industry.