by support | Sep 6, 2012 | Interpersonal Communication, Mastering Workplace Challenges
One definition (Bates and Plog,1990) defines culture as “the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation...
by support | Sep 5, 2012 | Mastering Workplace Challenges
Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. He describes the patterns of behaviour that are culturally influenced as the “software of the mind”, a type of collective mental...
by support | Sep 5, 2012 | Mastering Workplace Challenges
Culture is a collective phenomenon, learned and not inherited. The set of unique characteristics mentioned by Rosinski above are always at least partly shared with people from the same social groups. The nature of these groups varies and they may be defined by...
by support | Sep 5, 2012 | Mastering Workplace Challenges
“When a French person “demands” something, no offence should be taken. The French verb to ask is demander.” From Do’s and Taboos around the World By Roger E. Axtell A slip of the tongue or an imperious request? A simple mistranslation may cause ill-feeling. Equally,...
