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TASK 1 Business culture is the state of commercial development in a country. It takes the values, attitudes and norms, which underpin commercial activities and helps to shape the behaviour of companies in a given country. These companies in turn, develop their own individual 'corporate cultures', which manifest the way we do things. There is no such thing as a single, homogenous European business culture. Europe contains as many business and government, the shape and orientation of the economy, the financial institutions and the trade unions all exert a profound effect on the business cultures of all European countries. The business culture in a particular country grows partly out of what could be called the 'current business environment' of that country. Foe instance, most companies in Western Germany are not in business to make profits, which will be distributed to shareholders as dividends, they are in business to generate surpluses in order to...

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