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Analysis and comparisson of Russian and British national cultures. Assesment of implications and potential pitfalls for and Anglosaxon manager working in Russian national Culture
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Critically analyse the academic literature on a national culture of your choice from the ones studied, described and mapped by Hofstede, and Hofstede & Bond. Using their views plus those of Trompenaars and other researchers, indicate the likely implications and potential pitfalls for an Anglo-Saxon manager working with people from this national culture. The Countries chosen to examine in terms of cultural differences are Russian Federation (Russia) and United Kingdom (UK). Since management of the companies in Russia has been established during the years of Soviet era, the organizations are supervised and operated in different ways in Russia and Anglo-Saxon countries, UK in particular. Among numerous reasons, one of the major constraints is difference in national cultures. Trompenaars' (Trompenaars, 1995:6) describes culture as: "... the way in which a group of people solves problems." Hofstede (1984: 21) expands that definition to: "... the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes...
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