Study Skills for Higher Education: Assignment

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Study Skills for Higher Education: Assignment

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STUDY SKILLS FORHIGHER EDUCATION

ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1Critically evaluating the suggestions made in the article on Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions...1Which do you agree with and which do you disagree with? Justify your position.....................2Are there any other suggestions you would like to make?..........................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

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INTRODUCTIONStudy skills for higher education provide guidelines and directions to student for managingtime and also developing various learning strategies. Different cultures are getting interconnectedbecause the business organizations are operating in global markets. The present report is basedon the Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions theory that describes about various culture practicesadopted in businesses around the world. The theory describes that there are four types of culturebeing followed in different countries and businesses, such as individualism/ collectivism, powerdistance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity/ femininity. MAIN BODYCritically evaluating the suggestions made in the article on Hofstede’s Cultural DimensionsHofstede’s Cultural Dimension theory states that there are different cultures beingfollowed in the business organizations around the world (Tjosvold, 2017). Understanding andanalysing these cultural aspects provides directions and guidance regarding behaviour andfeelings of human and organization. There are certain elements of culture such as rituals, values,beliefs, symbols and thought process. The cultural dimensions leads to bring profound influenceand impacts on the business and business environment (Minkov, 2018). The power distance cultural dimension refers to the degree to which person with lesspower and status within society and organization accept or expect that power is unequallydistributed. Power distance generally stands for inequality and high power distance score statesthat society or organisation accepts inequality and follows hierarchical power distribution. Thenegative impact is that there is a large gap in authority and respect and also there are morecomplex hierarchies in centralised organisation (Hofstede, Hofstede and Minkov, 2015). Arabcountries also scores high for power distance cultural dimension as it is a king ruled country. Thelow power distance score refers that power is widely dispersed and organisation distributespower and status equally and do not accept inequality situations. The positive impact of lowpower distance is that employees feel satisfied and they also involve in decision making andother business activities and operations. The individualism and collectivism cultural dimension refers that extent to which people orsociety is inclined for remaining in groups (Hofstede, 2017). This cultural dimension is related toindividual importance versus group interests. The individualism dimension can be defined as1

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