ORGB 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensemaking

• School: McGill University
• Department: Organizational Behaviour
• Course: ORGB 380
• Professor: Professor J

Document Summary

Cross cultural lecture 6 cultural dimensions and models: beyond. Western bias in research literature or personal effort: appearance of contradiction within a culture when looking at simple models, not generally presented because complex, does not fit with western dualism , need to gain deep understanding beyond survival. Often not the focus of: desire to accentuate differences between cultures leads to minimizing paradoxes within cultures, desire to simplify complexities. Individual vs. group values (role of personality: unresolved cultural issues (ex?, bipolar patterns (ex: football players, role differences (subgroups, real (enacted) vs. espoused values, value trumping: one value becomes more important than the other in a certain context. Cultural sensemaking model: trying to make sense of cultural paradox by, indexing context, making attributions, select schemas considering, cultural values, cultural history.