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STUDY SKILLS FORHIGHER EDUCATION

ContentsINTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONCulture provides a guide and directions for how a people think and behave. It provides five elements of culture as values, rituals, symbols, beliefs, and thought process. For the skills needed for higher education the report will use the Hofstede’s Culture model. This model suggests four cultural dimensions which impact the business environment and that are individualism/ collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity/ femininity. The report will further analyze the different dimension of the model. Further it will highlight the best dimension and the least preferred dimensions. MAIN BODY Individualism/collectivism- This refers to the force that ties people together within a group or a community. It plays a high value on the individual achievement and self interest. This deals with only individual and his goals. Whereas collectivist culture works in direction of the collective goals and the group harmony and development. In this type of culture here the people need to be loyal to their group members in which they belong and work. If the individualism is high then it means that the interpersonal interpersonal connection between the members is not good because they all think for themselves only (Hofstede, 2003).Power distance culture- this means the degree of inequality which exists and in what degree accepted by the people with power and without power. If the power distance is high then it means that society accepts an unequal and hierarchical distribution of power in the system. And

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