Reference no: EM13949352
TASK:
Search the internet for articles/websites on business culture and etiquette for a country of your choice ( my choice is Angola).Try searching with the key words "doing business in". But be sure you get articles/websites on culture not national regulations. ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS.
1. Briefly explain how some of the insights discussed might be explained by the country's Hofstede scores.
2. Identify a cultural paradox-what advice in the website seems to contradict the country's Hofstede score
Step 1: Access Hofstede cultural dimension scores
2. Access Business culture websites for a country of your slide
3. Identify the cultural fit and cultural paradox. For example:
Cultural fit with Hofstede index: The web pages suggests that business teams in America would often get together to work on a specific project, and break up as soon as the project is complete. Teams are transitory, and team break-up is less traumatic than in other cultures, suggesting a fit with a high individualism-low collectivism culture that the US is.
Possible cultural paradox: The website suggests that"Titles can be very confusing within American organisations with a bewildering array of enormously important-sounding job descriptors on offer (Executive Vice-President etc.). Titles, in any case, tend to be a poor reflection of the relative importance of an individual within a company. Importance is linked to power, which could be determined by a number of factors such as head-count responsibility, profitability of sector or strategic importance to the organisation at that point in time".
This emphasis on titles and the existence of a power structure seems to mark a deviation from a relatively low power distance country, as determined in Hofstede index.
Note: Hofstede has recently added two more dimensions. Feel free to discuss these as well if you want.
Ps: the articles that I found: https://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/angola.html
https://geert-hofstede.com/angola.html
https://www.lexafrica.com/images/upload/press//Lex%20Africa%20Guide%202013%20Full%20Web.pdf
you can use others.
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