ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Future Orientation, Assertiveness, Masculinity
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Edward t hall and cultural notions of time. Hall identified two archetypes (basic types), monochromic and polychromic time. They represented the extreme ends of a spectrum along which real cultures were situated. Erin meyer has taken up two further terms used by hall for the same concept. Based on interviews with middle managers from different countries and places their national culture along a spectrum from flexible to linear, their attitude towards punctuality. Strict notion of punctuality in japan, switzerland, germany, uk, us, . Flexible notion of punctuality in saudi arabia, kenya, india, . Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful member institutions and organisations expect and accept that power is distributes unequally . Individualism pertains to societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after himself/herself and his/her immediate family , the opposite being collectivism .
