Five Factors of Individual and Cultural Differences

Abstract\nGeert Hofstedes five major(ip) pagan dimensions were analyzed in the context of American culture. Statistics were provided by a data set, amass by the Hofstede Centre. An essay authored by Alison Kirkness, a Senior lector at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, provided unless expla acres of each ethnical dimension. Finally, I was capable to look for the ethnic dimensions of Puerto Rico, where my mothers family is from, with information from investigate completed by the linguistic Differences vs. Learning Disabilities Project. All separate was maintained by the guide text, Organizational Behavior: piece Behavior at manoeuver (13thed) by John W. Newton. With the research I found, I was able to interpret my own experiences with incompatible perspectives of the five major heathenish dimensions and how they have influenced my own perspective.\n\n ontogenesis up a cleaning lady in America is a challenge in and of itself exactly having to combat tha t on apex of being both Puerto Rican American and African American is a whole different struggle. Maturing into adulthood, for me, meant acquisition to balance the warring cultural differences in my own household, in school, and finally in the workforce. I had to learn to understand and take on diversity, which meant having to accept different individuals cultural set of individualism / collectivism, reason distance, and uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, femininity and time orientation. Although I do not agree with someones cultural norms, I take their perspective into banknote and try to compromise with them; it is not a difficult toil for me to work with an individual whose values and ideals are different from mine.\nThe united States is a very individual country (The Hofstede Centre). It is a nation that values civil rights and emancipation (Newstrom 439). The American dream is to engender a college education, have a career, and be able to support oneself and ones f amily. This value was taught ...