ADM 3319 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Intelligence, Inductive Reasoning, Strategic Thinking
22 Feb 2016
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Cultural intelligence is a source of competitive advantage and a strategic capability for individuals and organizations. Effective and efficient adjustments to new countries and cultures brings dividends to individuals and organizations. Culture can be thought of as patterned ways of thinking, feeling and reacting to various situations and actions. Culture is gained and shared among people through symbols, including their embodiment in artifacts. Greet hofstede: culture as a sort of mental programming for people within a nation; it"s the software of the mid and it reflects a set of imperfectly shared rules for behaviour and meaning attached to such behaviour. Country (or nation) referred to a territorially bounded, multigenerational region wit ha population organized around a common culture and social system. Differences among groups of people within the country represent a different type of cultural diversity. May subcultures may exist within a single country.
