Building Bridges across Cultural Differences Why don’t I follow your norms? Charlotte Wittenkamp Download free books at Charlotte Wittenkamp Building Bridges across Cultural Diferences Why don’t I follow your norms? Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Building Bridges across Cultural Diferences: Why don’t I follow your norms? 1st edition © 2014 Charlotte Wittenkamp & bookboon.com ISBN 978-87-403-0821-1 Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Building Bridges across Cultural Diferences Contents Contents About the Author About the reader he Golden Circle 10 What is culture? 12 Values and Norms 14 he Learning Curve 17 4.1 he U-curve 18 4.2 Value clash 20 4.3 Going back 22 www.sylvania.com We not reinvent the wheel we reinvent light Fascinating lighting offers an ininite spectrum of possibilities: Innovative technologies and new markets provide both opportunities and challenges An environment in which your expertise is in high demand Enjoy the supportive working atmosphere within our global group and beneit from international career paths Implement sustainable ideas in close cooperation with other specialists and contribute to inluencing our future Come and join us in reinventing light every day Light is OSRAM Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Click on the ad to read more Building Bridges across Cultural Diferences Contents Adapting – or not 23 5.1 Assimilation 23 5.2 Bi/Multi cultural 24 5.3 Rejection 24 5.4 Culture loss 25 Don’t jump this chapter as much as you may want to 26 6.1 Questionnaire confusion 27 6.2 What does Statistical Mean mean? 27 6.2 Variance 28 6.3 What can you infer from knowing the mean? 28 6.4 Correlations and Causality 29 More about Values 30 7.1 Schwartz’s Value theory 31 7.2 Values according to Hofstede 40 360° thinking Discover the truth at www.deloitte.ca/careers Download free eBooks at bookboon.com © Deloitte & Touche LLP and affiliated entities Click on the ad to read more