'Five Factors of Individual and Cultural Differences'

'Abstract\nGeert Hofstedes cardinal major(ip) pagan dimensions were analyzed in the context of American culture. Statistics were provided by a data set, hive away by the Hofstede Centre. An see authored by Alison Kirkness, a Senior subscriber at the Auckland University of Technology, red-hot Zealand, provided further account statement of each heathenish dimension. Finally, I was satisfactory to explore the ethnical dimensions of Puerto Rico, where my mothers family is from, with information from query completed by the Linguistic Differences vs. erudition Disabilities Project. All demo was supported by the course text, organizational Behavior: human Behavior at Work (13thed) by John W. Newton. With the look into I found, I was adapted to stage my have experiences with antithetic linear perspectives of the five major heathenish dimensions and how they amaze influenced my own perspective.\n\n outgrowth up a woman in America is a challenge in and of itself but havin g to chip that on decease of being some(prenominal) Puerto Rican American and African American is a whole diametric struggle. Maturing into adulthood, for me, meant learning to offset the warring ethnical differences in my own household, in school, and finally in the regulateforce. I had to learn to gain and acquire diversity, which meant having to accept divergent individuals cultural set of individuation / collectivism, power distance, and incredulity avoidance, masculinity, femininity and sentence orientation. Although I do non discipline with someones cultural norms, I take their perspective into account and evidence to compromise with them; it is not a hard-fought task for me to work with an individual whose comfort and ideals are different from mine.\nThe United States is a very single country (The Hofstede Centre). It is a nation that values civil rights and independence (Newstrom 439). The American stargaze is to get a college education, have a career, and be able to support oneself and ones family. This value was taught ... '