Questions for chapter review

1. What elements are included into the Adler’s cycle? How are they related to each other?
2. What elements are included into Hall’s cultural iceberg? Why is an iceberg concept chosen to represent them?
3. What determines the formation of a person’s value system?
4. Why do immigrants often maintain their cultural identity and values, even after arriving in a country or city with a different culture and values?
5. What three cultural dimensions did Hall describe?
6. What cultural dimensions did Hofstede describe?
7. What cultural dimensions did Trompenars describe?
8. What cultural dimensions did Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck describe?
9. Explain the cultural dimension of time? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
10. Explain the cultural dimension of space? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
11. Explain the cultural dimension of context? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
12. Explain the cultural dimension of power distance and hierarchy? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
13. Explain the cultural dimension of individualism/collectivism? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
14. Explain the cultural dimension of tolerance and rules? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
15. Explain the cultural dimension of the harmony and mastery as desire to dominate the surrounding environment? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
16. Explain the cultural dimension of masculinity and femininity? What are its polarities, how does it manifest itself? Give examples.
17. Explain when and where cultural dimensions are important in global business. In what business processes is this important? Why is this important?
18. What are cultural clusters? List the cultural clusters?
19. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the Anglo cultural cluster? Give examples?
20. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the German cultural cluster? Explain with examples?
21. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the Scandinavian cultural cluster? Give examples?
22. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the Southern European cultural cluster? Give examples?
23. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the Eastern European cultural cluster? Give examples?
24. How are the cultural dimensions manifested in the cultural cluster of the Russian and its zone of influence? Give examples?
25. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the Asian cultural cluster? Give examples?
26. How are cultural dimensions manifested in the South and Central American cultural cluster? Give examples?
27. How are cultural dimensions displayed in the African cultural cluster? Give examples?

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