WorksheetsIntercultural Communication_Understand national cultures
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Considering Hofstede’s (and Minkov's) research on national cultures: Find the cultural value dimension that best fits the description.
1. The degree to which societies tend to allow relatively free gratification of natural human desires related to enjoying life and having fun or whether they are more likely to believe that such gratification needs to be curbed and regulated by strict norms.
Masculinity versus Femininity
Individualism versus Collectivism
Indulgent versus Restraint
Power Distance
Uncertainty Avoidance
The degree to which individuals base their actions on self-interest versus the interests of the group. According to the culture in the one end of the continuum, free will is highly valued. In the opposite culture, personal needs are less important than the group's needs. This latter dimension influences the role that a government is expected to play in markets.
Power Distance
Indulgent versus Restraint
Uncertainty Avoidance
Individualism versus Collectivism
Time Orientation (Short versus Long )
The degree to which individuals require set boundaries and clear structures: a culture with low requirement of structured information allows individuals to cope better with risk and innovation; while another culture with high requirement emphasizes a higher level of standardization and greater job security.
Masculinity versus Femininity
Uncertainty Avoidance
Indulgent versus Restraint
Individualism versus Collectivism
Power Distance
A measure of a society's goal orientation: the culture on one end of the continuum emphasizes status derived from wages and position; while the culture on the other end of the continuum emphasizes human relations and quality of life.
Masculinity versus Femininity
Power Distance
Uncertainty Avoidance
Short versus Long Time Orientation
Indulgent versus Restraint
The degree to which a society does or does not value long-term commitments and respect for tradition. Long-term traditions and commitments hamper institutional change.
Uncertainty Avoidance
Indulgent versus Restraint
Masculinity versus Femininity
Power Distance
Time Orientation
The extent to which influence, prestige, and wealth are distributed within a culture: a culture, on one hand, prefers hierarchical bureaucracies, strong leaders and a high regard for authority; while a completely different culture, on the other hand, tends to favor personal responsibility and autonomy.
Power Distance
Individualism versus Collectivism
Masculinity versus Femininity
Indulgent versus Restraint
Uncertainty Avoidance
Which of the following describes one of the features of a culture with strong ambiguity tolerance?
A) People try to minimize the possibility of risky situations by strict laws and rules, safety and security measures.
B) People are curious about new unknown things and situations.
C) What is new and different is considered as dangerous.
D) People tend to stay in the same job for long.
Which of the following describes one of the features of an indulgent culture?
A) Individuals do not have a perception of personal life control, rather they believe that what happens to them is not their doing.
B) The society promotes success over relationships and work over friendships.
C) The society discourages free satisfaction of basic human drives related to enjoying life and having fun.
D) The society encourages individual goals to pursue the pleasures of currently available resources.
Which of the following alternatives BEST completes the definition of a cultural value orientation?
______________________ refers to the range of communicative styles one of which implies that a lot of unspoken information is implicitly transferred during communication while the other implies that a lot of information is exchanged explicitly through the message itself and rarely is anything implicit or hidden.
Verbal versus non-verbal intercultural communication
Ambiguity tolerance versus uncertainty avoidance ‘cultures’
Monochronic versus polychronic ‘cultures’
High context versus low context ‘cultures’
10. This type of cultures are more tolerant of opinions different from what they are used to;
Uncertainty avoiding cultures
Cultures with a monochronic time orientation
Uncertainty accepting cultures
Cultures with a polychronic time orientation
Individualistic cultures
