There`s a lot of stories about how the boss critizises and complains about everithing someone do, but have you ever heard about the positive feedback that brings when this one recognice the work and incentivates you to improve every day?.This is a reasonable way to understand the Pygmalion effect, which suggest that the perciever´s positive expactaition enhances the target performance, is one of the main topics discused in the past class, as one of the perception theories.
The positive influence which could be result of positive expectations, is applied in many areas like bussines areas, militar world , in sports and even in education maters and that shows how this positive expectations can work in wide variety of situations
But, is important to have in mind that inside the perception process, pygmalion effect is not the only factor in the positive result of the subordinator development, it´s important as well, the perciever`s expectations and the both, subordinator and perciever´s, possible profits or welfare reached in the persuit of the objective.
In the globalaized organizational world, it is important to keep in mind the value of positive perceptions and encourage toward achieve the organizational goals.
lunes, 30 de agosto de 2010
domingo, 22 de agosto de 2010
Cultural Dimentions: the Geert Hofstede´s View
Hi every one, hope you´re having a great week. the first thing i want to say before starting this new post, i would like to apologise for being absent during the past two weeks, i´ve been studing and doing other projects. ok let´s start.
Two weeks i had the privilege to go to a conference presented by Mr Nick B. Meyer which was called "Dealing with Cultural Differences", he exposed the ideas of the five cultural dimentions in a society, this 5D are the results thof a study made by the Mr.Geert Hofstede, a successful writter of netherland on the cultural relations field. the 5D are:
Mr Meyer exposes that this dimentions are really important to understand and have a more realistic notion of today´s globalized world, personally, i found two of this dimetions more important, without taking out importance of the other 3, Power Distance and Long Term Orientation.
Power Distance: This dimention says that in the different countries of the world, there is certain acceptance or rejection on the fact that the distribution of power is unequal and generally treated in a Hierachical way in wich the power is concentrated in the top and is spread in the other parts unequally. this kind of structures, are accepted in most of the work organizations, some transnationals and in the countries structures. Hofstede created a scale in order to percieve the acceptance or rejection of certain countries, as an example, USA has a puntuation of near 40, that means that there´s no total rejection of power distance but neither a total acceptance of this kind of structure. Russia in the other hand is arround 90, that means that is one of the countries with most acceptance of the Hierarchical structures.
Long Term Orientation: in the beggining, Hofstede developed just 4 dimentions but he wanted to do a distinction between east - west lifestyle, so he created a new dimention based on the confucian teaching, the dimention goes on how life is oriented based on the idea that the gratness in our results is more important than find the result we want. also says that countries with LTO persevere more looking for slow results instead the search of inmediate results. this LTO dimetion, was studied just in 23 countries due the difficult of its develpement so was just made in 23 countries and foun that the countries of Asia, generally are more LTO than the west countries.
to finish this post, i would like to show you one video tha my inercultural managemnt teacher shows in one class and i think could be a funny video to perceive the difference in East- West perception, in this case, China- Germany.
Hope you enjoy it as i do!
Have a great week
Perception differences West- East (Germany- China)
Refferences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede
http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/long-term-orientation/
Two weeks i had the privilege to go to a conference presented by Mr Nick B. Meyer which was called "Dealing with Cultural Differences", he exposed the ideas of the five cultural dimentions in a society, this 5D are the results thof a study made by the Mr.Geert Hofstede, a successful writter of netherland on the cultural relations field. the 5D are:
- Power Distance
- Individualism
- Masculinity
- Uncertain avoidance
- Long Term Orientation
Mr Meyer exposes that this dimentions are really important to understand and have a more realistic notion of today´s globalized world, personally, i found two of this dimetions more important, without taking out importance of the other 3, Power Distance and Long Term Orientation.
Power Distance: This dimention says that in the different countries of the world, there is certain acceptance or rejection on the fact that the distribution of power is unequal and generally treated in a Hierachical way in wich the power is concentrated in the top and is spread in the other parts unequally. this kind of structures, are accepted in most of the work organizations, some transnationals and in the countries structures. Hofstede created a scale in order to percieve the acceptance or rejection of certain countries, as an example, USA has a puntuation of near 40, that means that there´s no total rejection of power distance but neither a total acceptance of this kind of structure. Russia in the other hand is arround 90, that means that is one of the countries with most acceptance of the Hierarchical structures.
Long Term Orientation: in the beggining, Hofstede developed just 4 dimentions but he wanted to do a distinction between east - west lifestyle, so he created a new dimention based on the confucian teaching, the dimention goes on how life is oriented based on the idea that the gratness in our results is more important than find the result we want. also says that countries with LTO persevere more looking for slow results instead the search of inmediate results. this LTO dimetion, was studied just in 23 countries due the difficult of its develpement so was just made in 23 countries and foun that the countries of Asia, generally are more LTO than the west countries.
to finish this post, i would like to show you one video tha my inercultural managemnt teacher shows in one class and i think could be a funny video to perceive the difference in East- West perception, in this case, China- Germany.
Hope you enjoy it as i do!
Have a great week
Perception differences West- East (Germany- China)
Refferences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede
http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/long-term-orientation/
lunes, 2 de agosto de 2010
3 Blogs
Hi Everyone, this is a list of the 3 blogs with topics Based in the Key Concepts of the Class. enjoy them:
1. http://www.thebobs.com/
2. http://www.cipe.org/blog
3. http://www.ceprit.blogspot.com/
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