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Geert Hofstede is a professor who came up with a theory after researching how people from different background/ countries interact with each other, he based this on six different types of dimensions. Which were, power distance, individualism vs collectivism, masculinity vs femininity, uncertainty avoidance and long and short term orientation. This theory was created so that society could come into terms with issues that needs to be organized. Geert Hofstede theory has become more important as society is continuing to become an integrated global economy.

ASSIGNMENT: Achieving competence as an interpersonal communicator in a diverse society is necessary to your personal and professional success. One way to enhance our understanding of interpersonal communication as a relationship-building activity is to engage in first hand dialogue with people from cultures other than your own. This assignment gives you the opportunity to engage in the dual perspective – honoring the perspective of the person with whom you are communicating as well as honoring your own perspective. You are also able to contrast your worldview with the perspective of someone with a different life experience than your

     In business, successful communication is the key to success, and being able to relate to a customer is the best form of communication. This is why cross-cultural communication is so important as the business world continues to globalize itself. Unfortunately, “A lack of awareness about the culturally prescribed rules and norms of communication behaviors can cause public relations projects to fail, or worse, backfire.” (Zaharna, 2001, p.135).

Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.

Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture are power distance, individualism v collectivism, masculinity v femininity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term v short-term time orientation. In the film the five dimensions are present, in the dimension of power distance it clear with the powerful positions that all the characters have within their professional lives. The way they live and own lavish houses leads to believe that they don’t believe they are equals to everyone else because of their status. Most of the couples demand respect and expect not to be question in their motives, which is a higher power context. Next is individualism versus collectivism, in

Today, we live in a culturally diverse society due to globalization. As our world grows, expands and become increasingly more interconnected, the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become apparent. When people from different cultures interact with one another there is intercultural communication because different cultures create different interpretation and expectations about what is seen as competent behaviors that will enable the construction of shared meanings.

Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.

This report will be taking a look at internal and external factors the company positively and negatively. The report will include what they do well and not so well? What issues are affecting the company at present and in the future?

Communication is such an important part of everyone’s daily life, not only in one’s personal life but also in organizations. Also now a day, we are becoming every year more and more global and working with different countries and cultures around the world. Henceforward, globalization is increasing, which makes communication a very important part of doing business internationally.

In Module 1, you reviewed the instructions for the capstone strategy audit assignment and grading rubric due in Module 5. By now, you have completed the following steps:

Critically evaluate the mission, vision and values of a company that you are familiar with and propose alternative formulations of same

3. What is your assessment of the globalization and M&A strategies of the Tata Group operating companies, particularly Indian Hotels, Tata Tea, Tata Consultancy Service, and Tata Steel? What can one learn from the global strategies of these major Tata Group companies?

As discussed in Chapter 21 of our text book, any company that is looking to expand globally must make five key decisions. A firm must decide if: a) they really want to expand to the international market; b) they

Geert Hofstede is an influential Dutch researcher in the fields of organizational studies and more concretely organizational culture, also cultural economics and management. He is a well-known pioneer in his research of cross-cultural groups and organizations and played a major role in developing a systematic framework for assessing and differentiating national cultures and organizational cultures. His studies demonstrated that there are national and regional cultural groups that influence behavior of societies and organizations.

More specifically, the power-distance index people will be lower in countries or organizations where common people enjoy democracy like in the UK, German and will be higher in countries or organizations with dictatorship like in like North Korea. Individualism versus collectivism is “The degree to which individuals are integrated into groups”. On the individual side, there were societies where ties among members are loose and very selfish, when they only take care of themselves and their families. On the contrary, there were societies where people with high collectivism are often cohesive and integrated into group. Masculinity versus femininity is “the distribution of emotional roles between genders”. Masculine cultures tend to be paternalistic, for example in some Asian countries men often have more power in families. But in more advanced societies, both men and women are equal with men and have chances the make decisions. Uncertainty avoidance means “a society’s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity”. When long and short term orientation first time is called “Confucian dynamism and it describes society’s time horizon”. Besides, it can be seen that Trompenaar, a management consultant also has some definitions and evaluations about national culture and gives some dimensions of culture. According to him, there are seven dimensions of culture; two more dimensions than Hofstede does. It encompassed