Bert hamminga Questions about Different Capitalist Cultures          version date 991101
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Control questions

  1. Explain the procedure by which I have construed the Cultural diversity table on the basis of percentage choices on dilemma's
  2. 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. 
  3. What could according to the text explain the anomalous ranking on question 7 (hint: think of language problems and the meaning of "power")?
  4. Africans would not at all know what answer to choose on question 7 Why? (vid. Epistemology from the African point of view).
  5. Describe American-Japanese differences in 1. View on employee in his working group, 2. Knowledge, theory, intellectuality, 3. Data and relations.
  6. In Indiana, one school started to experiment with 'get out of homework' coupons for family time. Why?
  7. What sets Swedes apart from the standard results in the HTT managers questions?
  8. What sets Germans apart from the standard results in the HTT managers questions?
  9. 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

  1. Try to think what more could explain the anomalous ranking on question 7
  2. Africans combine egalitarian collective decision making with the steepest hierarchies. How is this possible?