martes, 24 de septiembre de 2019


I choose Japan that is a reactive culture, they are introvert, patient, adept at nonverbal communication, and listeners. If they come to study in Barranquilla it would be very difficult because Colombia is multi-active culture, here people are extrovert and interrupt people while they speak because they are impatient, that is, they prefer to speak than listen. Therefore, when a Japanese start a conversation with a person from Barranquilla, he may feel that are disrespectful and rude since they don't wait patiently for him to finish speaking. 

sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2019

Hofstede Model

I will address the Hofstede Model with two dimension:






1. Long Term Orientation Versus Short Term Orientation
This dimension describes howevery society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenges of the present and future. 
  • Japanese see their life as a very short moment in a long history of mankind. From this perspective, some kind of fatalism is not strange to the Japanese. You do your best in your life time and that is all what you can do. Notion of the one and only almighty God is not familiar to Japanese. People live their lives guided by virtues and practical good examples. 
  • Japan is a long-term oriented society, which looks at the bigger picture and views an individual’s life as a short moment in time. In business, this translates to a far higher focus on long term investment rather than short-term profits.

2. Uncertainty Avoidance Index 
The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt to deal with this anxiety in different ways. 
  • Japanese have an aversion towards ambiguity and emphasise structure and codes of behaviour. Managers are interested in all the facts and figures, and a lot of effort is put into feasibility studies (etc.) in an effort to identify and eliminate risk factors. This is often attributed to the fact that Japan is constantly threatened by natural disasters from earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons to volcano eruptions. Under these circumstances Japanese learned to prepare themselves for any uncertain situation. This high need for Uncertainty Avoidance is one of the reasons why changes are so difficult to realize in Japan.