What is the term for a cultural vision that holds that there are no absolutes and everything is based on the situation?
Determinism
Relativism
Ethnocentrism
Parochialism
What communication method is more likely to be favored by high-context cultures?
Written
Face-to-face
Multimedia presentations
E-mail
What is an example of implicit culture?
Pace of life
Food
Language
Views toward power
What is the best way for an HR professional to persuade a function to embrace changes in work processes that are part of an organizational effectiveness intervention?
Show how these are standard procedures at other organizations.
Present evidence that disruption will be only temporary.
Explain that the functions credibility with management depends on accepting these changes.
Present the changes as necessary to maintaining competitiveness.
A global assignee from a collectivist culture is leading an operation in a country with a more individualist culture. There is almost continual open conflict during meetings. How is the assignee most likely to respond?
By encouraging arguments, since they improve the project outcome
By attempting to get team members to work harmoniously
By working individually with team members to address interpersonal differences fueling conflict
By demanding that the disagreements and fighting cease immediately