Five Factors of Individual and Cultural Differences

Abstract\nGeert Hofstedes quintette major(ip) cultural dimensions were analyse in the context of the Statesn culture. Statistics were provided by a cultivation set, collected by the Hofstede Centre. An try out authored by Alison Kirkness, a elder Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, tender Zealand, provided further explanation of each(prenominal) cultural dimension. Finally, I was satisfactory to explore the cultural dimensions of Puerto Rico, where my mothers family is from, with information from research completed by the Linguistic Differences vs. Learning Disabilities Project. either evidence was supported by the course text, Organizational demeanor: Human Behavior at Work (13thed) by bottom W. Newton. With the research I found, I was adequate to interpret my ingest experiences with variant spatial relations of the five major cultural dimensions and how they flip influenced my accept perspective.\n\nGrowing up a woman in America is a challenge in an d of itself but having to combat that on top of being two Puerto Rican American and African American is a whole unalike struggle. Maturing into adulthood, for me, meant learning to balance the hawkish cultural differences in my hold household, in school, and finally in the workforce. I had to learn to reckon and accept diversity, which meant having to accept incompatible singulars cultural values of individualisation / collectivism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, womanhood and time orientation. Although I do not agree with someones cultural norms, I take their perspective into account and try to via media with them; it is not a sticky task for me to work with an individual whose values and ideals are different from mine.\nThe United States is a rattling individualistic country (The Hofstede Centre). It is a nation that values civilian rights and independence (Newstrom 439). The American dreaming is to get a college education, have a career, and be able to support oneself and ones family. This value was taught ...