Title: Hofstede’s Framework for Assessing Cultures

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Two cultures meet for their first business meeting. They are engaged in a joint venture to build a new factory to make widgets in Country X. Country Y needs to find a steady, more economical supply of widgets, while country X boasts a large workforce skilled in making widgets and the costs of labour is significantly lower than in Country Y.

Consider the differences in values between the two cultures for the following values:

a. Thoroughly describe the differences in each of the values prior to answering the following questions.

b. What challenges will you face working together?

c. What steps could be taken to work together more effective?

Word count: 857 (2.86 pages)

The only source used is indicated below:

Langton, N., Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2009). Fundamentals of organizational behaviour (5th ed.). Don Mills, ON: Person Canada.