Cultural Values, Masculinity-Femininity And Short Term Orientation

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Personality can be described as specific characteristics that one may have that can vary from the way a person thinks to the way they behave. In a TED Podcast called WorkLife with Adam Grant : Your hidden personality, the main subject is how personalities vary and its effects. The speaker, Adam Grant, begins by having a conversation with a lawyer for a multinational company named Marie-Louise who experiences, after merging with another firm, employees in the company getting judged or fired for having a specific personality based on a personality test everyone had to take. This shows how others may perceive specific personality types as right or wrong , which isn't necessarily how it should be. The speaker also mentions a management consulting …show more content…

With that being said, cultural values play a huge role in the traits that one develops. Cultural values are shared beliefs, desires , and thoughts depending on a person's culture. Cultural values , however, have several dimensions such as : individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity-femininity, and Short term vs. Long-term orientation. These dimensions summarize and compare how cultures may differ. Project Globe shows how effective culture can be when it comes to leaders, specific practices and behaviors ; it defines power distance and uncertainty avoidance as the two dimensions that identify cultural values. Power distance is how much a person's culture, values power. In low power distance cultures such as the United States, "power " is distributed equally among everyone meanwhile high power distance cultures such as Russia or Indonesia can be said to not distribute "power" as equally. Uncertainty avoidance is about a culture's sense of stability when it comes to ideas, behaviors, and situations. High uncertainty avoidance cultures, for example, is a culture that isn't comfortable in situations where they are "uncertain" and prefer

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