Individual Essay for Study Skills
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Individual Essay for Study Skills
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Individual essay for Study skills
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Critical evaluation of the suggestions made in the article regarding the use of Hofstede'sculture..........................................................................................................................................1Justifying the agreeable and non agreeable opinions from the study..........................................2More Suggestions........................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTIONCulture within the organization encompasses the values and behavior that contribute tothe unique social and psychological environment of the business. This document will be basedon the Geert Hofstede's culture which describes different cultural influences of the business. Inaddition to this, the article also introduces several agreeable and non-agreeable statement fromthis study.MAIN BODYCritical evaluation of the suggestions made in the article regarding the use of Hofstede's cultureAccording to the document, culture of the organization provides the guide and directionto the activities and actions of the employees (Krishnakumar, 2018). It derives the organizationbehavior of people within the enterprise. The culture may consists of various elements such asvalues, beliefs, rituals, symbol and the way thoughts processes. Geert Hofstede have defined acultural model and categorized the model into four dimensions. Such cultural values mayinfluence the environment of the business and thus it may impacts on the overall performance ofthe business. Four cultural dimensions are individualism/ collectivism, power distance,uncertainty avoidance and masculinity/femininity. In these cultural aspects, Hofstede's hasexamined that individualism is very important as it promotes the sense of self interest amongemployees. On the other hand collectivism is aimed at achieving the collective goals.Collectivism tends to achieve the main objectives whereas individualism only focuses on theindividual improvement of employee.According to the study, power distance plays the important role as it promotes the senseof equal and fair authorities to every person in the organization. Power distance dimension canbe referred as Power inequality in which granting equal power to all the employees leads to thepositive cultural influence of the organization. On the other hand, high power culture withinenterprise leads to conflicts among workforce as this eliminates the relationship of superior andsubordinate (Väyrynen, 2018). This may affect the environment of the business and operations ofthe firm. Third cultural dimension is identified as uncertainty avoidance as this can be defined asrespond of the society towards uncertain or ambiguity situation of enterprise. It is one of theimportant aspect which need to be considered while performing the commercial practices. On theother hand, enterprises with high uncertainty avoidance have to implement strict policies andregulations in order to meet the stated objectives of the firm. Strict rules and regulations leads to1
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