Exam 4: The Global Cultural Environment

According to Hofstede, which of the following is a dominant characteristic of a society with high power-distance?

Consumers use possession rituals to display consumer goods.

Consumers derive ________ from products that have high aesthetic and emotional values and are closely associated with personal, social, or cultural identity.

Culture does not include unconscious values or attitudes that shape human behavior.

According to Hofstede, a society with long-term orientation emphasizes ________.

Environmental sensitivity is the extent to which products must be adapted to the culture-specific needs of different national markets.

Products can be symbols of individual or collective reality.

According to Schwartz, emerging-market cultures emphasize embeddedness and hierarchy.

The United States has a high-context culture.

Role-playing often brings out thoughts and feelings that otherwise might go unexamined or even unacknowledged.

According to Leung and Bond, the degree to which societies are characterized by cognitive apprehension or assessment of the world confronting people is referred to as ________.

Which of the following is true of the people in high-context cultures compared to low-context cultures?

According to Schwartz, Western European cultures emphasize autonomy and egalitarianism.

According to Hofstede, which of the following is a characteristic of a society with high uncertainty avoidance?

According to Hofstede, achievement and success are dominant values in feminine cultures.

Culture is most likely converging toward individual autonomy and independence in the mass-market segment of an emerging market.

According to Project GLOBE, ________ refers to the degree to which individuals in organizations or societies encourage and reward individuals for fairness, altruism, generosity, caring, and kindness toward others.

Sociopsychological processes are shaped by recurrent episodes in daily life, which personalize the core ideas communicated by the external world.

What are some of the guidelines that can help managers improve the ability to learn about other cultures?

The unconscious avoidance of reference to one's own cultural values is called the self-reference criterion.