Assignment 7

Home Learning Week 7

1.) Culture Part 1:

a) What is culture for you?

b) What kinds of factors have influenced national cultures?

c) How have Internet and increasing global trade affected cultural differences?

d) Why are people able to do business across different cultures? What do business people across the world have in common?

e) What is ethnocentrism and how does it impair cross-cultural business relations?

2) Culture Part 2: Here you can see the score of the UAE (right bars) and Canada (left bars) in Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Please interpret the results for 4 dimensions.