MGOC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Total Quality Management, Baby Boomers, Small Power
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Chapter 4- values, attitudes, and work behaviour: values: a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others. Work is valued differently across cultures with japan having highest work centrality while the british scored low. Those with higher work centrality would value work as a central life interest. Revealed four basic dimensions along which work-related values differed cross cultures: (5th for eastern cultures: power distance the extent to which an unequal distribution of power is accepted by society members. Small power distance cultures: inequality is minimized, superiors are accessible and power differences downplayed. Large power distance societies: inequality accepted as natural, superiors inaccessible, power differences highlighted: uncertainty avoidance the extent to which people are uncomfortable with uncertain and ambiguous situations. Strong uncertainty avoidance cultures: stress rules/regulations, hard work, conformity and security. Weak uncertainty avoidance cultures: less concerned with rules, conformity, and security and hard work not seen as a virtue but risk taking is valued: masculinity/femininity.
