Five Factors of Individual and Cultural Differences

twitch\nGeert Hofstedes flipper major heathen dimensions were analyzed in the scene of American culture. Statistics were provided by a data set, collected by the Hofstede Centre. An essay authored by Alison Kirkness, a Senior Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, provided further commentary of each pagan dimension. Finally, I was able to explore the cultural dimensions of Puerto Rico, where my mothers family is from, with information from research realised by the Linguistic Differences vs. nurture Disabilities Project. All evidence was back up by the course text, organizational deportment: Human Behavior at Work (13thed) by John W. Newton. With the research I found, I was able to look my own experiences with different perspectives of the five major cultural dimensions and how they lead influenced my own perspective.\n\nGrowing up a woman in America is a gainsay in and of itself but having to chip that on top of macrocosm both Puerto Rican Ame rican and African American is a strong different struggle. Maturing into adulthood, for me, meant decideing to residue the warring cultural differences in my own household, in school, and ultimately in the movementforce. I had to learn to understand and play on diversity, which meant having to accept different individuals cultural respect of individualism / collectivism, power distance, and irresolution avoidance, masculinity, femininity and time orientation. Although I do not chalk up with someones cultural norms, I take their perspective into account and crusade to compromise with them; it is not a difficult task for me to work with an individual whose set and ideals be different from mine.\nThe United States is a very individualistic bucolic (The Hofstede Centre). It is a nation that values civil rights and independence (Newstrom 439). The American dream is to get a college education, have a career, and be able to support oneself and ones family. This value was taug ht ...