GLOBAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL

RESPONSIBILITY Session 02

Professor: Ricardo Abelardo Mejía Peralta

March - 2015

Resume Session 01… •  Academic freedom & Brains in motion. •  Confucius. Human=Makes the things happen. •  The only reason to do business. •  GBM. Cultures & Time zones. •  Profit or not profit? •  CSR. Better and cleaner society. •  Company vs. Society.

International business cultures

What is CULTURE?

CULTURE & EDUCATION Are they the same?

Culture…

•  Narrow definition: The finer things in life. •  Anthropologist: Being culture is to be

human. •  Tylor 1871… That complex whole which

includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Culture… •  Kluckholm and Kelly 1945... All the historically

created designs for living, explicit and implicit, rational, irrational, and no rational, which exist at any given time as potential guides for the behavior of men.

•  Herskovits 1955… The man made part of the environment.

•  James Downs 1971… A mental map which guides us in our relations to our surroundings and to other people.

Culture… •  The way of life of people.

Elvin Hatch 1985 So… Culture is everything that people have, think,

and do as members of their society. Pearson

Is it possible to learn the culture?

Culture is transmitted through the process of learning and interacting with one’s environment, rather than through the genetic process.

Does Culture influence biological processes?

Cultural universals •  All the cultures face a number of common

problems and share a number of common features.

•  Societies… if they are to survive, are confronted with fundamental universal needs that must be satisfied.

•  A cultural universal is an element, pattern, trait or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide.

•  Economic systems. •  Marriage and Family systems. •  Educational systems. •  Social Control systems. •  Supernatural Belief systems.

Cultural universals…

The successful international manager is one who sees and feels the similarity of structure of all societies.

The same set of variables are seen to operate, although their relative weights may be very different.

This capacity is far more important than possession of specific area expertise, which may be gained quite rapidly if one already has an ability to see similarities and ask the right questions.

Richard Robinson, 1983

Cultures… •  Culture change. •  Three basic components… Things, ideas

and behavior patterns. •  Ethnocentrism. •  Cultures are integrated wholes.

Be cautious… There is always a tendency to evade or stretch the meaning of the rules or to otherwise minimize their consequences.

Barrett 1991

Cultural anthropologists make the distinction between ideal behavior (what society says people should do)

and actual behavior (what people in fact do),