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What are the likely effects (if any) of national culture upon organisations?
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What are the likely effects (if any) of national culture upon organisations? Culture - what is it? The word culture has two very different meanings. There is "culture in the narrow sense" which refers to knowledge of the arts, such as music and sculpture, and then there is the concept of culture as acquired patterns of thinking, feeling and acting or "culture in the wider sense". It is this second type of culture that will be the subject of this essay. I also intend to describe some of the differences in mental programming that exist between members of different nations, with the aim of proving that national culture has an effect upon organisations. A working definition of culture within this aforementioned "wider sense" is that it represents the "collective programming of the mind which distinguishes one category of people from another".1 Nation, region or origin, language group, generation, sex, religion, education, occupation...
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