Culture Clashes
Type in the name of the book you have read.
Reasons
Type the main events of the book, classifying them in: events from the beginning, events from the middle, and events from the end of the book.
Describe the story visually. Add a representative picture for each of them.
Senses of time
More fluid sense of time
Fixed time
Practices
Diverse
Cultures
Countries
Orientations to tasks and to people
Relationship-oriented
Task oriented
Leadership styles
Situational
Laissez-faire
Paternalistic
Democratic
Autocratic
Languages
communication
Type the main events from the end.
Add a representative picture for each of them.
Not-verbal
Verbal
Degrees of formality
Informal
Formal
Type the main events from the middle.
Add a representative picture for each of them.
Comfort levels with diversity
Ethnocentric
Diversity
Type the main events from the beginning.
Add a representative picture for each of them.
Consequences
Type the names of the book characters. Start with the main character.
Draw arrows to represent the relationship between them and if it is possible write on them what they represent for each other (if they are relatives, friends, lovers, enemies etc.)
Bankruptcy or failure
If the problems are severe, the company may fail
Decreased profitability
Profits drecrease
Due to the appearance of various problems, resources are invested to solve them.
Various types of conflict in the workplace
Differences in ideas and stress lead to conflicts between employees
Higher labour turnover
Employees do not feel good about their work and look for another
Lower productivity
The productivity decreases
Unresponsive management
Employees feel worried because of their managers
Sense of insolation
Employees feel ignorant of what is happening
Sense of division
Employees are compared with others
Some employees do their job alone
Preoccupation with the merger
Employees focus on other things than their own jobs
Lack of focus
Employees might not understand the new organizational aims
What are the characteristics that best describe the character? Type them here.
