Describe Personal Socio-Cultural Values and Beliefs

Application: Personal Socio-Cultural Values and Beliefs
There is often an evaluative component to social culture: When people encounter an unfamiliar value, belief, or behavior, they may evaluate it negatively. As an OPD professional, you can expect to work with individuals who come from cultures that are different from yours. What's more, your work will likely have far-reaching effects—touching the lives of many individuals from various cultural backgrounds. It is therefore important for you to be aware of your own cultural perspective and how it may influence your approach to working with people from diverse cultures.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Review pages 136–138 in the course text, Managing Internationally, focusing on cultural values.
• Review this week's DVD program, “ Social Culture.” Focus on:
o The primary and secondary cultural identity groups to which an individual may belong
o The Cultural Identity Profile exercise—why it is useful and how to complete it
• Review Geert Hofstede's Web site on Cultural Dimensions (under Learning Resources). Focus on the meaning of the five Cultural Dimensions and how specific countries rate.
• Complete your own Cultural Identity Profile as outlined in this week's DVD Program, “Social Culture:”
o Step 1: Brainstorm cultural identity groups
o Step 2: Think of characteristics that typify each cultural identity group
o Step 3: Allocate pieces of the pie to each cultural identity group
• Consider the various components of your own cultural identity and how you may be perceived by the individuals with whom you work.
The assignment (1–2 pages):
Describe the various components of your own cultural identity and the insights that you obtained about yourself through this exercise. Analyze how your cultural identity may affect how others perceive you, and explain how this might present issues and challenges when you are working as an OPD professional. Also, include two or more examples of how you might modify your behavior or make other accommodations in certain situations in order to minimize these challenges.
Geert Hofstede's TM Cultural Dimensions
https://www(dot)geert-hofstede(dot)com/
Reading Reference (if needed)
Course Text: Managing Internationally
Chapter 3, "International Management and the Cultural Context" (pp. 125–158)
Article: Bond, M. H., Leung, K., Au, A., Tong, K., Chemonges-Nielson, Z. (2004). Combining social axioms with predicting social behaviours. European Journal of Personality, 18(3), 177-191.
Use the Academic Search Premier database, and search using the article's Accession Number: 12762582
Article: Vandello, J. A., & Cohen, D. (1999). Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(2), 279-292.
Use the PsycARTICLES database, and search using the article's Accession Number: 1999-03699-004
Media
Video: Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Dynamics of contemporary, international, and virtual organizations: Social culture. Baltimore: Author.
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.