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Respecting Diversity in Ageing

Exploring culture exercises, stories and synthetic cultures Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert Hofstede.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng, lis Publisher: Yarmouth, ME Intercultural Press, c2002Copyright date: c2002Description: xix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877864900
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3124 23 H7138 2002
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection).
Incomplete contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book or Printed Material 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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