Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition: Software of the Mind: Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival (BUSINESS SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT)

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I enjoyed how the clarifications of how different cultures encounter other cultured (ethnocentrism/xenophilia). What is it that continues to drive people apart when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest?

I picked it up from the university’s library as I needed to refer to the original source for my dissertation and by the time I got to that specific part I needed, I decided I might as well finish it. We're first told that "masculine" refers to cultures with traditionally defined and separated gender roles, whereas in "feminine" cultures, men and women undertake similar roles. LONG-TERM/SHORT-TERM ORIENTATION: LTO stands for the fostering of virtues oriented towards future rewards, in particular perseverance and thrift. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Although the authors claim to espouse a "values neutral" position (which I have always argued is an impossible and illogical position), their Dutch/Swedish preferences ring out loudly and clearly (humanistic, environmnetalist, etc.The bottom line is that cultural values were set deep in the past, but that they are continually evolving in response to events and experiences. Still, I do believe the book is too long and that the author could have make it a more compact reading. To believe that would be to fall prey to the mean green meme’s propaganda and do away with all notions of hierarchy altogether. Part 1 was very insightful, yet at times the author seemed to be a victim of confusing causes and effects. Institutions cannot be created from scratch: they are living arrangements, rooted in values and history, which have to grow.

Incidentally, I believe that there are answers to all these questions and they’re found in a little book written by Iain McGilchrist. nation-building, it bears remembering that even something as Perfect and Flawless as American democracy can be difficult, if not downright impossible, to export to a nation or region that has a completely different set of values. This is especially important for citizens of developing world, where we all believe in one, monolithic culture of the whole western society. Starting from the most superficial, SYMBOLS are words, gestures, pictures or objects that carry a particular meaning that is recognise as such only by those who share the culture. This book also provides a lot of charts and lists with main points, so it is easy to find relevant information quickly.Hofstede has developed a model that tries to explain the cultural differences between countries and organizations; this model has been refined and improved over decades. Just a heads up: the book spends a great deal of space simply describing their methodology in gathering and interpreting data.