HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Ingroups And Outgroups, Gender Role, Egalitarianism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2010
• Professor: Elizabeth Kurucz

Document Summary

Chapter 16: culture and leadership (p. 428 451) Globalization advancing throughout the world, increasing interdependence. More international trade, cultural exchange, and use of worldwide telecommunication systems. Culture: the learned beliefs, values, rules, norms, symbols, and traditions that are common to a group of people (shared qualities of a group; culture is dynamic) Multicultural: implies an approach or a system that takes more than one culture into account: set of subcultures defined by race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or age. Diversity: the existence of different cultures or ethnicities within a group or an organization. Long-term- short-term orientation: globe classification of cultural dimensions: Uncertainty avoidance: the extent to which a society, an organization or a group relies on established social norms, rituals and procedures to avoid uncertainty. Power distance: the degree to which members of a group expect and agree that power should be shared unequally.