Exploring culture exercises, stories and synthetic cultures Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert Hofstede.
Material type: TextLanguage: Eng, lis Publisher: Yarmouth, ME Intercultural Press, c2002Copyright date: c2002Description: xix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1877864900
- 658.3124 23 H7138 2002
- Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection).
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Book or Printed Material | Main Library Library | Main Collection | 658.3124 H7138 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | IMUAC032722 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Stories and exercises -- 1. Worlds apart in one village -- 2. Culture : the rules of the social game -- Part II. Synthetic cultures -- 3. The ten synthetic culture profiles -- 4. Getting to know the synthetic cultures -- 5. Dialogues in synthetic culture role -- 6. Summing up -- Part III. Group work and simulations -- 7. Group work for cross-cultural learning -- 8. Using synthetic cultures in simulations -- 9. The trade mission -- 10. Follow-the-sun global technology team -- References.
Contains over 100 culture awareness exercises, dialogues, stories of incidents and simulations that bring to life Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of culture. These dimensions are: power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainly avoidance, and long-term versus short-term orientation.
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection).
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