| I just need the last question answered I just included the whole post for background: you made very good points with your post!! Good job!! The word culture comes from the Latin cultural, which is related to cult or worship. Culture is the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior. This knowledge forms values, creates attitudes, and influences behavior. Most scholars of culture would agree on the following characteristics of culture: a) Learned―Culture is not inherited or biologically based; it is acquired by learning and experience. b) Shared―People are members of a group, organization, or society that shares culture; it is not specific to single individuals. c) Transgenerational―Culture is cumulative, passed down from one generation to the next. d) Symbolic―Culture is based on the human capacity to symbolize or use one thing to represent another. e) Patterned―Culture has structure and is integrated; a change in one part will bring changes in another. f) Adaptive―Culture is based on the human capacity to change or adapt, as opposed to the more genetically driven adaptive process of animals. QUESTION: DESCRIBE the concept of cultural values, and relate some of the international differences, similarities, and changes occurring in terms of both work and managerial values. |
