Cultural hermeutics

Cultural Hermeneutics
For Management purposes

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Cultural Metaphors
• Activity, phenomenon, or institution that members of a given culture consider important and with which they identify emotionally and/or cognitively.

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Underlying values expressive of the culture itself.
Probabilistic statements that apply to a group but not toevery individual within it. Guide, map, or beacon that helps foreigners understand quickly what members of a society consider to be very important.

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Cultural Metaphors
Types of cultures
INDIVIDUALISM

COLLECTIVISM

Low (Horizontal)

Equality Matching
(Interval)

Community Sharing
(Nominal)

POWER DISTANCE

High (Vertical)Market Pricing
(Radio)

Authority Ranking
(Ordinal)

Chapter 1. Gannon, p. 13

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Cultural metaphors
Authority ranking cultures

Japan
The Japanese garden
Stone, plants & flowing water Droplets (combination: waterfall) Integration, harmony, oneness with nature Wa & Shikata (katas) Seishen (discipline & adversity)

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Cultural metaphors
Equality matching cultures

Germany
The Symphony
Individuals united for the greatest good Individual preference: subordinated Diversity of instruments, positional arrangements, the conductor, precision and synchronicity, unified sound.
Strings, Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion

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Culturalmetaphors
Market pricing cultures

American Football
Outlandish speed, constant movement, high degree of specialization, consistent aggressiveness & intense competition.
Individualism and competitive specialization, huddling & ceremonial celebration of perfection.

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Cultural metaphors
Torn national cultures

Russia
The Ballet
Echelons:1) Prima ballerina, choreographer & conductor. 2) Director, set designer & costume designer. 3) Who report to the director. 4) Corps. 5) Supporting musicians and technicians Drama & Realism

The Russian Soul

Vranya, Maskirovannoye, Mir

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Men-Environment Relation
Knowledge Ignorance

• Material production hierarchy
• Material elements“Natural"

• Unknown or bad known realities • Immaterial elements “Supernatural”

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Material Activities
Changing relationship with the environment (process), of physical transformation (material) of nature, with the purpose of providing oneself, the individual o the society (goods put under cultural variations), of natural means for survivaland reproduction.

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Material Productions
HUMAN BEINGS WORK ENVIRONMENT

WORK OBJECT NATURE WORK FORCE (Men) Produce material goods Observation Experimentation Knowledge Production Science

WORK INSTRUMENTS (Tools)

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Symbolic Activities
Answers or solutions that human beings contribute toposed problems by the immaterial universe Set of activities of symbolic character, concrete expressions of non-natural explanations, nonscientific.

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Cosmology & Cosmogony
Cosmology
• Set of beliefs and knowledge, a compounded set that refers to the natural and human universe. • Complies with 2 criteria: consistency and effectiveness • Itbelongs to what is symbolic

Cosmogony

• Centered in the creation of the world and exposes, under the form of myths, the origins of cosmos and the process of constitution of society. It does not comply with the criteria of consistency and effectiveness. • It belongs to what is imaginary

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