Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition: Software of the Mind: Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival (BUSINESS SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT)

Product Information

There is much we can learn from each other, but practices work better if we modify them to match our cultural values better, and this book can be a starting point on the journey of discovering our shared core values. Interestingly enough, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an excellent chapter in his Nov 2008 book Outliers (also highly recommended) based on this, i. There is a caveat, what he sampled Is IBM employees from various countries, which represent a particular culture of their own, rather than being representative of the culture as a whole. When I repeated some of these assumptions made by Hofstede to some of my colleagues from other parts of the world, they were very surprised, and all of them (yes, all of them) disagreed with the generalisations of themselves, and how they perceived others. However the most important stuff to take from the book is the fact that even Western countries differ a lot.

MASCULINITY/FEMININITY: A society is masculine when emotional gender roles are clearly distinct; men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success, whereas women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. The bottom line is that cultural values were set deep in the past, but that they are continually evolving in response to events and experiences.

Part three consist of two concluding chapters of which the first discusses intercultural encounters and culture shocks.

To believe that would be to fall prey to the mean green meme’s propaganda and do away with all notions of hierarchy altogether. Politicians are out to enrich themselves and their families without being controlled by traditional norms.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We have no choice but to pursue the direction of expansion of the moral circle to all people in the world’’(477), a social darwinist end and arbitrary eschatology, moralizing in a menacing manner where the ‘‘moral circle’’ could mean helping the afflicted and exploited persons affected, while likely ‘overlooked’ in favour for the opposing ‘side’, that of imperial re-entrenchment. Although the book is based on pretty good statistical analysis, the book does not talk about it much.