Culture is defined as the pattern of variations within a community, society, or more specifically, as the pattern of deep-level of values and assumptions associated with social effectiveness, religion, shared and followed by a group of people or communities, however, the entire cultural system may not be completely shared by ever member within a society or community. If the culsture is deeply shared by majority or all members within a society or community, then it is not open to change, it becomes closed, it it does not adpat to a changing environment.
It is my first time looking at different dimensions of Orientaios towards Relation to environment, relationships among humans, nature of Humans (I beleive that nature of most humans is essentially good, if not, some are molded by the society they brought up), activity (my dimension towards activities is to think before acting, considering all things carefully and rationally before taking action), and time (in my opinion, the decisions we make should be based on and balanced between Present - based on immediate needs and factors and Future - based on long term future needs and factors).
I have been working with several global teams from different countries through out my career, I came across a team from a new country for me that I started working with and here are my observations about this team from Mexico.
Family comes first priority, difficulty separating work and personal relationships, sensitive to differences of opinion, versus family is usually second to work, personal sensitivity is separated at workplace from emotions, personal relationships.
By looking at my scores versus Group results, I am surprised to see that I have scored High on two orientations for myself, and the group High score is relatively high on rest of the orientations.
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