GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Parker Follett, Western Electric, Cultural Intelligence

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

Document Summary

We are looking at things with social and environment consciousness rather than just for economic well- being. Culture: is a shared set of beliefs, values, and patterns of behaviour common to a group of people. Culture shock: is the confusion and discomfort a person experiences when in an unfamiliar culture. Ethnocentrism: is the tendency to consider one"s culture as superior to others. Cultural intelligence: is the ability to accept and adapt to new cultures. There is many benefits of our acceptance in canada. We have a lot of cultural intelligence. Proxemics is how people use space to communicate: thing of proximity. This is how close something is to you. Five dimensions of value difference in national culture from hofstede: Remember dimensions are things on scale from one characteristic to another. Power distance: the degree to which a society accepts or rejects the unequal distribution of power among people in organizations and the institutions of society.