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Problem: Navigating Cultural Dimensions in the Workplace
Introduction
In this activity, you will apply the four fundamental building blocks or fundamental dimensions of culture and how they can explain or be a source of a wide variety of behavior. You will read several situation scenarios and see how people may respond based upon the dominant fundamental building blocks of a particular culture. In this activity, you are asked to determine which building block or dimension of culture a particular respondent is displaying.
Instructions
For this problem, do the scenario-based activities 2.5 and 2.9 from the Storti textbook in chapter 2. Post your answers in the forum board. Review the following resources for this activity:
Storti, Craig. Figuring Foreigner's Out, 20th Anniversary Edition: Understanding the World's Cultures, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2018.
Chapter 2: Building Blocks of Culture
Gill, C. (2017). Hofstede's cultural dimensions and differences across cultures | OUPblog. Oxford University Press.
Worthy, L. D., Lavigne, T., & Romero, F. (2020). Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions. Open.maricopa.edu; MMOER.
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