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Topic 2: Cultural Dimensions and Dilemmas: The Value-Orientation Concept
Topic 2: Cultural Dimensions and Dilemmas: The Value-Orientation Concept
Slide 5.1 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
Five orientations
Slide 5.2 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
Trompenaars’dimensions
3. Neutral or Affectivity
• Long pauses or frequent interruptions
• Being professional or engaged
4. Specific-Diffuse
• Data and codification or concepts and models
• Being results-oriented or process- oriented
5. Achieved or ascribed status
• Pay for performance or vindication for worth
• Head-hunting or developing in-house
Slide 5.7 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
Management’s dilemmas & dimensions
(Continued)
Slide 5.8 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
Trompenaars versus Hofstede dimensions
Slide 5.10 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
How does reconciliation work?
Slide 5.12 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009
Class Exercise
Slide 5.13 Browaeys and Price, Understanding Cross-cultural Management, 1st Edition, © Pearson Education Limited 2009