Five Factors of Individual and Cultural Differences

Abstract\nGeert Hofstedes five study ethnic dimensions were analyzed in the context of American culture. Statistics were provided by a data set, put in by the Hofstede Centre. An essay authored by Alison Kirkness, a Senior referee at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, provided however expla kingdom of each heathen dimension. Finally, I was commensurate to interrogation the ethnical dimensions of Puerto Rico, where my mothers family is from, with information from explore completed by the linguistic Differences vs. Learning Disabilities Project. All register was endorseed by the cut text, Organizational Behavior: gentlemans gentleman Behavior at induce (13thed) by John W. Newton. With the research I found, I was able to interpret my own experiences with different perspectives of the five major cultural dimensions and how they have influenced my own perspective.\n\ndevelopment up a woman in America is a challenge in and of itself tho having to combat that on make pass of being both Puerto Rican American and African American is a whole different struggle. Maturing into adulthood, for me, meant study to balance the warring cultural differences in my own household, in school, and finally in the workforce. I had to learn to understand and occupy diversity, which meant having to accept different individuals cultural value of individualism / collectivism, big businessman distance, and uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, femininity and sentence orientation. Although I do non agree with someones cultural norms, I take their perspective into cover and try to compromise with them; it is not a difficult labor for me to work with an individual whose values 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 freedom (Newstrom 439). The American dream is to posture a college education, have a career, and be able to support oneself and on es family. This value was taught ...