Study skills for higher education - Assignment PDF

Study Skills for Higher
Education

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ASSESSMENT 1.........................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
TASK...........................................................................................................................................3
1. Critically evaluating the suggestions made in the article of Hofstedes cultural dimensions
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2. Agreement as well as disagreement with the statement. ....................................................5
3. Suggestions..........................................................................................................................5
ASSESSMENT 2.........................................................................................................................7
1. Meaning of Literature review...............................................................................................7
2. Literature review on topic Corporate social responsibility .................................................7
CONCLUSION ...........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................10

ASSESSMENT 1
INTRODUCTION
Hofstedes cultural dimensions is the theory which was developed in year 1970. It is
basically a framework for cross cultural communication. This model mainly emphasizers on
analysing the way culture prevailing in the society highly influenced the behaviour as well as
values of employees working together in an organization. Hofstedes cultural dimensions
model assist in developing the understanding about the differences in culture.
The report will have focus on critically evaluating the suggestions made in the article
of Hofstede cultural dimension.
TASK
1. Critically evaluating the suggestions made in the article of Hofstedes cultural dimensions
Culture can be referred to as custom, ideas as well as social behaviour of people in the
society. It is the culture prevailing in an enterprise which is indicated by values. Culture can
also be defined as the characteristics as well as knowledge of particular group of people. As
per opinion of Gond and Nyberg, 2017, there are different constituents of culture these are
symbols, rituals, thought procedure and beliefs. The Hofstede model highlight the way cultural
value can influence the business. According to the Hofstede model there are various dimension
of Culture these are individualism as well as collectivism, power distance, masculinity/
femininity and uncertainty avoidance,
The dimension individualism as well as collectivism in Hofstede culture model mainly
emphasizes on the way Self oriented people of culture effect their attitude at workplace. In
individualism culture people are more concerned about achievement of their personal goals as
well as fulfilment of their own interest. However, in context of collectivism culture, all people
working in an organization are connected with each other. In addition to this, in context of
collectivism, people in an enterprise mainly have focus on maintaining their relationship with
other people at workplace. On other side, individual culture, people mainly emphasizes on
maintaining their position within an enterprise.
As per the view of few authors Such type of culture prevail in the United states.
However, it has been argued by other researchers that individualism culture can be analysed in

Western countries. According to suggestion Hofstede model, company have to make
adjustment in different environment, as there is great difference in the values as well as culture
of other country. It has been argued by other authors that new business concept can be
introduced for expanding business in other country rather than making the adjustments. The
other suggestions given in Hofstede model is that company should develop their own values as
well as culture. However, some other researcher as well as scholar argues that it is required by
management in an enterprise to provide the cultural training to employees rather than
developing the new culture as well as value. The authors also stated that if an organization
create their own culture mew employees might have to face difficulty in adjusting themselves
to new organizational culture (Ellerup Nielsen and Thomsen, 2018.). As per the sated Gond
and Nyberg, (2017) development of new culture as well as value can be beneficial in terms of
guiding the behaviour of workers. However , it has been argued by other authors that bringing
change in the culture can have adverse effect on the behaviour as well as performance of
existing employees. According to the opinion of Hansmann, R. and et.al., 2016., an
organization need to bring change in communication as well as social system as it can be
helpful and beneficial in terms of bringing improvement in the culture. The author has also
stated that improvement in communication as well as system can be good in order to positively
influence behaviour as well as performance of employees at workplace (Setiawan, Singh and
Romijn, 2019.). the positive view about the suggestion is that providing the open
communication channel to the workers can be helpful in context of supporting working in
eliminating the cultural differences. However , negative about this suggestions Is that changing
the communication system can be quite costly as well as time-consuming. In addition to this,
providing the open communication can give rise to the high chances of conflicts among
employees that could further have adverse effect of business performance of enterprise.
According to the suggestion in Hofstede model, employing the diverse workforce can be
helpful in relation to dealing with the customers belonging to the different culture. However, it
has been argued by other authors that diversity can give rise to major issues such as conflicts
that can further have adverse effect on business performance.
According to the Hofstede cultural dimension model, power / distance can be defined
as extent up to which less powerful employees in an enterprise accept when the power is
distributed unequally by management. However, as per the opinion of Crane and et.al., 2019.,