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One danger of using the culture frameworks introduced in Chapter 4 is that if we apply them prescriptively:

A) we'll be able to understand too much detail of a culture, and this will slow down decision making.
B) we'll limit rather than enrich our perceptions.
C) our perceptions will become stereotypes, however sophisticated.
D) B and C

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Two basic ways to understand the role of leadership are as providing direction for a collection of individuals and as:

A) limiting the freedom of individual group members.
B) integrating a group.
C) linking top management with workers.
D) organizing workers for production.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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There are three main classes of social institutions, based on the conditions of their formation: family, kinship, and free association.

Feminine cultures in Hofstede's dimensions care about relationships and are not focused on business success. It is quality of life that matters.

The specific-diffuse dimension looks at:

Hofstede's framework is based on social science theory.

Referring to Hall's high-and low-context framework, in a high-context culture,

Hofstede's masculinity-femininity dimension suggests that, as an international manager, you might well:

In human resources, laws administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC) allow an American company to be successful on the cultural front in all foreign labor markets.

Hofstede's individualism-collectivism dimension measures the degree to which people tend to be integrated into groups.

The United States and Canada are small power distance countries because they expect a level playing field, socially, at least at the ideal level.

When operating in other cultures, if we realize that, underneath it all, we are all the same, we will be fine.

As we use frameworks to help us understand culture, it's important to remember that frameworks:

Culture includes everything objective, and religion contains values and is thus not a part of culture.

The specific-diffuse dimension has to do with social patterns for child rearing.

Business makes few costly mistakes in product introductions into foreign markets.

The family is the basic unit of institutions based on free association.

If people belong to strong, cohesive in-groups that look after them in exchange for loyalty, the culture is likely to be:

When we use cultural frameworks to build our understanding of another culture, we use our own culture as an implicit reference point.

Monochronic cultures tend to be: