GMS 200 Lecture 4: GMS 200 Week 4

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Ado Abdoulkadre

Document Summary

3. 1 explain what the management challenges are in going global. 3. 3 explain what culture is and how it impacts global management. 3. 4 explain benefits of developing global management skills. Culture share set of beliefs and values and patterns of behaviour common to a group of people. Culture shock confusion and discomfort a person experiences in an unfamiliar culture. Ethnocentrism tendency to consider one"s own culture as superior to others. Cultural intelligence the ability to adapt and adjust to new cultures. Consists of cross-cultural skills, cultural knowledge, and cultural metacognition that allows individuals to navigate through different sets of cultural assumptions to achieve successful interaction with people from various cultural backgrounds. Proxemics is how people use space to communicate. Power distance acceptance that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. Uncertainty avoidance extend to which society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them. Individualism vs. collectivism: degree to which people prefer to act.