MODULE 2

• It is the increasing economic, political, and cultural integration and interdependence of diverse cultures.

  Globalization
• It is global competition characterized by networks of international linkages that bind countries, institutions, and people in an interdependent global economy.

  Globalization
• _______ is the learned and shared behavior of a community of interacting human beings. A system of beliefs, assumptions, and values shared by a group of people. It is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms that affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.

  Culture
• Give the 5 Characteristics of Culture?

  Cultures are learned, not innate

  Cultures are shared

  Cultures are multifaceted

  Cultures are dynamic

  Cultural identities are overlapping
• Is a form of cultural exchange in which one group assumes the beliefs, practices, and rituals of another group without sacrificing the characteristics of its own culture.

  Cultural Integration
• Occurs when members of one cultural group adopt the language, practices, and beliefs of another group, often losing aspects of their traditional culture in the process.

  Cultural Assimilation
• Cultural diversity is encouraged and valued as beneficial to society.

  Multiculturalism
• Refers to the process by which individuals may take on values and beliefs of the host culture and accommodate them in the public sphere while maintaining the parent culture in the private sphere.

  Cultural Accommodation
• Give the 4 Nature of Common Cultural Practices


  Leadership

  Work Productivity

  Group Allegiance

  Task Commitment
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We may refuse to comply or do business in cultures that operate according to ethical principles that differ from ours.

  Avoiding
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We can accept the different ethical system and conform to practices different from us.

  Accommodating
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We can insist on doing business in a way we believe is ethically proper.

  Forcing
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We can try to convince the people with whom we want to do business why our ethical principle is more appropriate.

  Educating=Persuading
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We and the other party can each give up something to negotiate a settlement.

  Negotiating=Compromising
• HOW WE RESPOND TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

  We can work with the other party to face the problem directly and reach a mutually satisfying solution.

  Collaboration=Problem Solving
• Refers to the belief that a person’s culture (his “in-group” culture) is much better than any other group’s culture (an “out-group”) culture, and the tendency for that person is to judge any of the out-group culture by using the norms of his “in-group” culture.

  Ethnocentrism
• Are generalized negative traits assigned to a group of people (e.g. race, nationality, religion, social class, sexual orientation, age, gender even if these traits may only reflect a selected few of the group.

  Stereotypes
• Is an unfair thought, belief, or feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, nationality, gender, sexual, orientation.

  Prejudices
• Is a baseless, unreasonable refusal to see cultural differences where they exist.

  Assumed Similarities
• Is the fear or apprehension associated with either real or anticipated communication with people from another cultural group.

  Anxiety