Bert hamminga Questions about Different
Capitalist Cultures version
date 991101
Go to: Cultural diversity table
Control questions
- Explain the procedure by which I have construed the Cultural
diversity table on the basis of percentage choices on dilemma's
- Write shortly what according to you is suggested by the result of question 1.
Call your answer 2.1. Similarly for the results of question 2 to 23. Call your respective
answers 2.2 to 2.23.
- What could according to the text explain the anomalous ranking on
question 7 (hint: think of language problems and the meaning of "power")?
- Africans would not at all know what answer to choose on question 7 Why?
(vid. Epistemology
from the African point of view).
- Describe American-Japanese differences in 1. View on employee in his
working group, 2. Knowledge, theory, intellectuality, 3. Data and relations.
- In Indiana, one school started to experiment with 'get out of
homework' coupons for family time. Why?
- What sets Swedes apart from the standard results in the HTT managers questions?
- What sets Germans apart from the standard results in the HTT managers questions?
- Swedes replied much more in favour of group conformity (as against
capabilities) than Germans, however displayed lower employer loyalty under stress,
higher preference for isolation of tasks and for majority vote (as against consensus
strategies of dicision making). How to explain this?
Open questions
- Try to think what more could explain the anomalous ranking on question 7
- Africans combine egalitarian collective decision making with the steepest hierarchies.
How is this possible?