Culture and Organizations: Theoretical Frameworks and Relevant Findings Related to Intercultural Communication Competence and Management Practices
Abstrakt
Cultural differences that are relevant for intercultural communicative competence and management practices have become the object of study within a growing interdisciplinary field and various models have been elaborated in order to elucidate these issues. The first framework draws upon the work of Geert Hofstede, an organizational psychologist whose research was based on a large, questionnaire survey of IBM employees and managers in forty different countries.
The second framework utilizes research by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Humpden-Turner who identified several elementary dimensions according to which different cultures can be measured. The third powerful framework relevant for studies of cultural values and multicultural environment has been elaborated by Edward Hall.