Flashcards on Business Management, Motivation, and Global Skills
Business Management, Motivation, & Global Skills Guide for Students
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Cross-cultural Management
42 cards
Card 1
Question: What management implications arise from a masculine culture in cross-cultural management?
Answer: A masculine culture favors competition, achievement, and material success; management implications include using competitive bonus structures to motiv
Card 2
Question: What management practices are more effective in a feminine culture?
Answer: Flexible working hours and a supportive team environment are more effective in feminine cultures that value cooperation, care, and work-life balance.
Card 3
Question: List key characteristics associated with masculine cultures.
Answer: Competition, achievement, material success, 'live to work' (examples: Japan, Germany, USA).
Card 4
Question: List key characteristics associated with feminine cultures.
Answer: Cooperation, care, work-life balance, 'work to live' (examples: Sweden, Norway, Netherlands).
Card 5
Question: Does 'masculine' and 'feminine' in cultural dimensions refer to gender?
Answer: No — it refers to dominant cultural values, not the genders of people in the culture.
Card 6
Question: What does the Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) measure?
Answer: How comfortable or uncomfortable people are with ambiguity, change, and the unknown.
Card 7
Question: What traits define high UAI cultures and how do they affect business?
Answer: High UAI cultures (e.g., Greece, Portugal, France) feel anxious about uncertainty, use strict rules, detailed planning, clear social codes; in busines
Card 8
Question: What traits define low UAI cultures and how do they affect business?
Answer: Low UAI cultures (e.g., Denmark, Singapore, UK) are comfortable with ambiguity, have fewer formal rules, are flexible and pragmatic, embrace change an
Card 9
Question: How does high UAI influence innovation?
Answer: High UAI tends to slow innovation because change and risk are perceived as threatening.
Card 10
Question: How does low UAI translate into workplace behavior?
Answer: It results in flexibility, pragmatism, willingness to take risks, and greater openness to new ideas and entrepreneurship.