Building Bridges across Cultural Differences
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 9788740307399
Description: Have you ever been in the company of people from another country and wondered “Why to they do that?” – “that” being anything from the way they greet each other to public policies we find highly exotic?

“Building Bridges across Cultural Differences” looks at foundations for these differences because in all human relationships, if we can find a satisfying answer to these “Whys”, we are much more likely to connect with people who at first glance seemed somewhat unpredictable.
Table of contents: title: Content; title: The Golden Circle; title: What is culture?; title: Values and Norms; title: The Learning Curve; title: The U-curve; title: Value clash; title: Going back; title: Adapting – or not; title: Assimilation; title: Bi/Multi cultural; title: Rejection; title: Culture loss; title: Don’t jump this chapter as much as you may want to; title: Questionnaire confusion; title: What does Statistical Mean mean?; title: Variance; title: What can you infer from knowing the mean?; title: Correlations and Causality; title: More about Values; title: Schwartz’s Value theory; title: Values according to Hofstede; title: Other Models; title: World Values Survey; title: The Lewis Model; title: GlobeSmart; title: Missing values; title: Egalitarianism / Hierarchy / Patriarchy; title: Status and Respect; title: History; title: The Protein Theory; title: The Xenophobe Theory; title: Rice/Wheat theory; title: Imperialism/Colonialism; title: Is this still relevant?; title: Systems; title: General legalities; title: School Systems; title: Taxes; title: Public accounts; title: Other Systems; title: Blueprint of the World; title: Communication; title: Language; title: Other Communication Pitfalls; title: Communication Filters; title: Concluding Comments