Question

Know what culture is and how it impacts managers when working overseas—What is monochronic vs polychronic cultures? What is the difference in ethnocentric, polycentric or geocentric managers?

Answer 1

Answer:

Culture is sum of the characteristics that defines the ways of working.

Explanation:

• A culture is a learning outcome and is a product of sharing and rotation of the patterns of the society and can be demonstrated by the attitudes and the behaviors and the symbols.

• A monochronic culture is one culture that is seen in the U.S, U.K, and Canada and the northern Europe and those of the Chinese and the middle east and the Arabic and those of the Africans are highly polychronic.

• The Ethnocentrism is used as an art of judging one's culture and in believing that the values and the standards of one's own culture are much more superior and especially in terms of the language, the behavior, the customs, and the religion. They wouldn't trust foreign employees with key decisions

• Polycentric is having to do with more than one center and the geocentric model is also considered to be in relation to the center of the earth. Polycentric managers, in the nationals of the host country, are taken by the subsidiary company.