{"id":48,"date":"2007-05-04T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:06:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T07:06:18","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-30-working-in-japan-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic-hofstede-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 30 +++ working in Japan +++ Haiti and the Dominican Republic +++ Hofstede in action +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-48-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_030.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_030.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_030.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Working in Japan &#8211; Haiti and the Dominican Republic &#8211; Hofstede in action<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rush hour in Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rushhour.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rush hour in Japan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>Absolutely National<\/strong><br \/>\nYogesh Bang, an Indian software engineer, has worked on assignment in Japan several times. His advice to anybody thinking of working in Japan is to be prepared to lose out on sleep. He also noticed the effect of concensus decision-making, hierarchy and the status of women employees during his time there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absolutely Educational I<\/strong><br \/>\nWe have another report from Chris Saenger of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imi.american.edu\/\">Intercultural Management Institute <\/a>of Washington on their annual conference last March called &#8216;Does Culture Still Matter?&#8217; This time he talks about their second keynote speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocialcontract.com\/cgi-bin\/showarticle.pl?articleID=1053&amp;terms=\">Laurence Harrison<\/a> who is not afraid to make controversial propositions as to why for example Haiti and the Dominican Republic perform so differently economically even though they share the same island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absolutely Educational II<\/strong><br \/>\nSpeaking from Iceland, David Stroud, a senior British civil servant, talks about why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geert-hofstede.com\/\">Hofstede model<\/a> is so useful in international negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The next show will be coming from Germany on May 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Host of this show is: <a href=\"http:\/\/elgg.net\/annef\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_030.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working in Japan &#8211; Haiti and the Dominican Republic &#8211; Hofstede in action Absolutely National Yogesh Bang, an Indian software engineer, has worked on assignment in Japan several times. His advice to anybody thinking of working in Japan is to be prepared to lose out on sleep. He also noticed the effect of concensus decision-making, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;absolutely intercultural 30 +++ working in Japan +++ Haiti and the Dominican Republic +++ Hofstede in action +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,118,153,158,150,152,157,156,6,149,155,151,997,154],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-conference","tag-culture-as-the-software-of-the-mind","tag-david-strout","tag-does-culture-still-matter","tag-hofstede","tag-iceland","tag-india","tag-intercultural","tag-intercultural-management-institute","tag-japan","tag-laurence-harrison","tag-podcast","tag-yogesh-bang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}