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| Cross-cultural understanding |
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| The requirement that we reorient our mind-set and, most importantly, our expectations in order to accurately interpret the gestures, attitudes, and statements of the people we encounter from other cultures. |
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| Something that we prefer over something else |
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| The set of beliefs, values, and norms, together with symbols like dramatized events and personalities, that represents the unique character of an organization and provides the context for action in it and by it. |
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| The specific values included in Hofstede's research. Values, in this case, are broad preferences for one state of affairs over others, and they are mostly unconscious. |
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| The value dimension referring to how openly a society or culture accepts or does not accept differences between people on hierarchies in the workplace, in politics, and so on. |
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| The value dimension referring to people's tendency to take care of themselves and their immediate circle of family and friends, perhaps at the expense of the overall society. |
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| The value dimension referring to how much uncertainty a society or culture is willing to accept. |
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| Long-term orientation (LTO) |
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| The value dimension referring to whether a culture has a long-term or short-term orientation. |
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| How a message is communicated. In what are called high-context cultures, such as those found in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the physical context of the message carries a great deal of importance. In low-context cultures, people verbally say exactly what they mean. |
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| The study of physical space and people. called proxemics, one of Hall's principle categories on describing how cultures differ. |
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| The study of space and distance between people as they interact |
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| A culture in which people can do several things at the same time. |
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| A culture in which people tend to do one task at a time |
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| The view that a person's own culture is central and other cultures are measured in relation to it. |
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| A branch of philosophy that seeks virtue and morality, addressing questions about "right" and "wrong" behavior for people in a variety of settings; the standards of behavior that tell how human beings ought to act. |
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