Exam 4: Sociocultural Forces

The extent to which members of a society expect and accept that power is to be distributed unequally is termed by Hofstede as:

Latin and Asian countries' scores on Hofstede's power distance dimension are relatively large and relatively low on:

Although some business areas are affected by culture, accounting and finance are objective and thus universal.

Human resources are influenced by cultural values because values are the foundation of motivation and evaluation.

An achievement culture is one in which members are:

The unspoken language cannot tell the international manager something that the spoken language does not.

A culture's sense of beauty and taste is:

In some countries people are relatively loosely connected and tend to focus on themselves and their immediate family. Hofstede would describe these countries as:

Accounting controls directly relate to a culture's assumptions about:

The only cultural framework described in the text that is based on communication styles is:

International business managers need to be able to communicate across cultural borders, even if they don't speak foreign languages.

In order to really understand another culture:

Facebook is:

The presence of tattoos suggests social outcasts universally, based on:

Gift-giving in many cultures is marked by:

Discuss Hall's high- and low-context framework, and suggest how it might be useful in an international business situation.

When you assert that a certain aspect of your own culture is superior, you are probably exhibiting:

We are each born with a unique culture.

Production managers have discovered that their introduction of new production methods across cultures is affected by varying attitudes toward:

Hofstede's measure of the amount of effort a society puts into ordering the environment and avoiding ambiguity is termed: