Culture and Diversity

Culture ......

• does not matter if you are managing people
• ....affects every aspect of the management process

Stereotyping is 

• Typing on two sheets of paper at the same time
• a cultural profile that tends to develop some tentative expectations

The belief that your own cultural background is correct is called 

• Retrorecognition
• Ethnocentrism
• Indopacificism

Performance Orientation is 

• low in russia, high in Singapore
• low in New Zealand, high in Argentina
• low in Honkong, high in Greece

In a high context culture

• what is said is more important than what is not said
• most of the information is contained explicitly in words
• what is not being said can carry more meaning than what is said

which of the following dimensions does not belong to Hofstede`s value dimensions?

• Power distance
• Collectivism
• Conscientiousness

According to Hofstede`s value dimensions Power Distance is high in 

• Austria
• UK
• Germany
• Malaysia

The average of the weekly working hour is the highest in 

• Germany
• India
• Singapore

Work goals and remunerations 

• vary across cultures
• are the same everywhere in the world
• are the same as in the USA

Comittment means to be present in the office as long as possible to show how important the company is for you. This is common 

• in Germany
• in China
• in Nigeria