Comments on: Baseline, benchmark, bottleneck: Why cultural self-awareness is crucial. http://identityresearch.org/2010/03/15/baseline-benchmark-bottleneck-why-cultural-self-awareness-is-crucial/ Observations of identity, culture & psychology management by Dr. Nathalie van Meurs Sun, 20 May 2012 05:56:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: admin http://identityresearch.org/2010/03/15/baseline-benchmark-bottleneck-why-cultural-self-awareness-is-crucial/#comment-31 admin Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:56:57 +0000 http://identityresearch.org/2010/03/15/baseline-benchmark-bottleneck-why-cultural-self-awareness-is-crucial/#comment-31 Hello and thanks for your comment, Stephan :-) Interesting definition of culture - i like it. I was taught that culture is a system of shared values. That's it. Mainly because by including anything else you'd be working with a tautology... but I agree, it should include a reference to oneself and the subjectivity of our norms and beliefs. Have you seen the website by ICCI - there are, in their reading section, no references to any of the names from the field of cross cultural management and psychology. It made me realise how complex this concept - culture - is and what fireworks would ensue if we'd manage to get cultural researchers at different ends of the spectrum together... Hello and thanks for your comment, Stephan :-)

Interesting definition of culture - i like it. I was taught that culture is a system of shared values. That’s it. Mainly because by including anything else you’d be working with a tautology… but I agree, it should include a reference to oneself and the subjectivity of our norms and beliefs.

Have you seen the website by ICCI - there are, in their reading section, no references to any of the names from the field of cross cultural management and psychology. It made me realise how complex this concept - culture - is and what fireworks would ensue if we’d manage to get cultural researchers at different ends of the spectrum together…

]]> By: Stephan Dahl http://identityresearch.org/2010/03/15/baseline-benchmark-bottleneck-why-cultural-self-awareness-is-crucial/#comment-25 Stephan Dahl Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:50:43 +0000 http://identityresearch.org/2010/03/15/baseline-benchmark-bottleneck-why-cultural-self-awareness-is-crucial/#comment-25 Excellent point! Indeed - a very fundamental point (and one that so frequently overlooked, probably because so many people find it easier to focus on the "different", the other, but so hard to look at themselves. It would actually be great if it could be incorporated more explicitly into the various definitions of culture... not sure how, but maybe along the lines of "Culture is a fuzzy set of attitudes, beliefs, behavioural norms, basic assumptions and values that are shared by a group of people, and that influence each members’ behaviour and his/her interpretations of the meaning of other people’s behaviour" --- which includes both the own behaviour as well as the observed behaviour of others. Excellent point! Indeed - a very fundamental point (and one that so frequently overlooked, probably because so many people find it easier to focus on the “different”, the other, but so hard to look at themselves. It would actually be great if it could be incorporated more explicitly into the various definitions of culture… not sure how, but maybe along the lines of “Culture is a fuzzy set of attitudes, beliefs, behavioural norms, basic assumptions and values that are shared by a group of people, and that influence each members’ behaviour and his/her interpretations of the meaning of other people’s behaviour” — which includes both the own behaviour as well as the observed behaviour of others.

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