Slovenia values cleanliness, politeness, and nature. Meetings are orderly and focus on structure and procedures. Croatians respect education and family, while Serbians value openness and nationalism. Bulgarians are pragmatic and disciplined organizers. Romanians value survival and self-importance. Finland values freedom and independence, while Sweden values equality and kindness.
Slovenia values cleanliness, politeness, and nature. Meetings are orderly and focus on structure and procedures. Croatians respect education and family, while Serbians value openness and nationalism. Bulgarians are pragmatic and disciplined organizers. Romanians value survival and self-importance. Finland values freedom and independence, while Sweden values equality and kindness.
Slovenia values cleanliness, politeness, and nature. Meetings are orderly and focus on structure and procedures. Croatians respect education and family, while Serbians value openness and nationalism. Bulgarians are pragmatic and disciplined organizers. Romanians value survival and self-importance. Finland values freedom and independence, while Sweden values equality and kindness.
Slovenia values cleanliness, politeness, and nature. Meetings are orderly and focus on structure and procedures. Croatians respect education and family, while Serbians value openness and nationalism. Bulgarians are pragmatic and disciplined organizers. Romanians value survival and self-importance. Finland values freedom and independence, while Sweden values equality and kindness.
• Values: clean, polite, • Communication pattern: are not nationalistic, love of nature particularly talkative people. and mountain climbing, • Listening Habits: good listeners. truthful, love of music, • Behavior at Meetings and catholic. Negotiations: meetings in Slovenia Concepts are orderly affairs and Slovene • Leadership and Status: negotiating characteristics are Slovenes have been denied fuctuality, rationality, structure, the right to rule themselves. procedures and persistence. • Space and Time: love the • Manners and Taboos: well- outdoors and their mountains. mannared people. Croatia Culture • Listening Habits: not the • Values: Catholic attitudes, social world’s best listeners. envy, respect for education, • Behavior at Meetings and pessimism, strong family attachments. Negotiations: very eager Concepts and negotiations openly • Leadership and Status: respect forceful. money, power, and influence. • Manners and Taboos: eye • Space and Time: tactile and contact is important; it is demonstrative advisable to remove Cultural Factors in Communication sunglasses while conversing • Communication Pattern: strong with someone. opinion, especially in the political. Serbia Culture • Listening Habits:very • Values: openness, romanticism, attentive nationalism, unpredictability, low legal consciousness. • Behavior at Meetings and Concepts Negotiations: not averse to • Leadership and Status: nationalistic asking for sympathy and issues. help (especially from • Space and Time: tactile and Westerners) personal. • Manners and Taboos: rich in Cultural Factors in Communication folklore and rural traditions • Communication Pattern: charismatic to an extradionary and still observe old- degree and present themselves fashioned. well to foreigners. Bulgaria Culture • Listening Habits: listeners • Values: pragmatic, disciplined, excellent. good organizers, cautions. • Behavior at Meetings and Concepts Negotiations: meeting in • Leadership and Status: likely to Bulgarian are generally be less autocratic than Serbian or Greek. affairs. • Space and Time: not • Manners and Taboos: same overcrowded country. like other Balkan people, Cultural Factors in Communication are extremely hospitable • Communication Pattern: reticent and will share with guests and reserved in the early stages what little they have. of acquintance. Romania Culture • Listening Habits: attentive • Values: nepotism, self- but suspicious listeners and importance, social corruption, use to lengthy presentations obesession to survive. and argumennts. Concepts • Behavior at Meetings and • Leadership and Status: part of Europe that was inhabited. Negotiations: skilled • Space and Time: meeting usually diplomats and negotiators start 30-45 minutes late. and hard bargaining faces Cultural Factors in Communication any foreigners who wish to • Communication Pattern: do business with them. oratorical by nature and rarely • Manners and Taboos: answer questions with yes or no. embrassingly hospitable. Finland Culture • Behavior in the Business • Values:love freedom, Environment: embedded in independent, democratic, the genersl finnish image, tolerant, hardworking and intellegent. which is perpetuated by the Concepts Finns themselves and • Leadership and Status: low profile accepted hook, line, and • Space and Time: clear cut and sinker by foreigners who unambiguous. have little knowledge of Cultural Factors in Communication Finland. • Communication Pattern: display obvious weakness in communication. Sweden Culture • Behavior in the Business • Values: loyalty, equality, Environment: decentralized love of nature, kindness, and democratic. honesty, tolerance, love of peace, cleanliness.