Introduction
The impact of culture on organization for how well do you know your international colleagues is an assignment to answer a series of questions proposed on page 87 to 88 by Nancy J. Adler, (2008), the question is to address my friend family background, his career background, the comparison of our cultures, and what I have learned
His Family Background
My friend name is Emmanuel Ojo Balogun, is close friend of mine from Nigeria. He is from a medium size family in Nigeria that is similar to mine. A medium family in Nigeria is considered a husband and a wife with four to six children and a large family is usually a polygamy marriage of two wives and a lot of children. He is the number four son out of four boys and he is number five …show more content…
However, he does not see me as a match for blend of culture because he wants a typical Nigeria woman to maintain Nigeria culture for a husband and a wife in addition to business relationship that will not fit into the definition of cultural synergy. According to Adler, (2008, p.), “Cultural synergy is a term coined for work which describes an attempt to bring two or more cultures together for form an organization or environment that is based on combined strengths, concepts and skills. Although, he likes my pursing of higher education, he believes in marry an educated woman. His first wife does have average education for trade school. From my view, he welcome the notion of having a woman for equal level of education, however, he did not share the equality of power that is becoming more important for the cultural synergy for globalization to take …show more content…
And stereotypes is a conventional images for label that involves the categorization of group for harmonious behavior that never accurately describe a person for individuality. According to Adler, (2008, p76), “stereotypes describe the behavioral norm for member of a particular group.” In addition, I have learned that sources of misinterpretation can be from “inaccurately interpreting what is seen by using meaning to make sense out of individual reality” is misattribution of situation that does not reflect the reality of others (Adler, 2008,
The impact of culture on organization for how well do you know your international colleagues is an assignment to answer a series of questions proposed on page 87 to 88 by Nancy J. Adler, (2008), the question is to address my friend family background, his career background, the comparison of our cultures, and what I have learned
His Family Background
My friend name is Emmanuel Ojo Balogun, is close friend of mine from Nigeria. He is from a medium size family in Nigeria that is similar to mine. A medium family in Nigeria is considered a husband and a wife with four to six children and a large family is usually a polygamy marriage of two wives and a lot of children. He is the number four son out of four boys and he is number five …show more content…
However, he does not see me as a match for blend of culture because he wants a typical Nigeria woman to maintain Nigeria culture for a husband and a wife in addition to business relationship that will not fit into the definition of cultural synergy. According to Adler, (2008, p.), “Cultural synergy is a term coined for work which describes an attempt to bring two or more cultures together for form an organization or environment that is based on combined strengths, concepts and skills. Although, he likes my pursing of higher education, he believes in marry an educated woman. His first wife does have average education for trade school. From my view, he welcome the notion of having a woman for equal level of education, however, he did not share the equality of power that is becoming more important for the cultural synergy for globalization to take …show more content…
And stereotypes is a conventional images for label that involves the categorization of group for harmonious behavior that never accurately describe a person for individuality. According to Adler, (2008, p76), “stereotypes describe the behavioral norm for member of a particular group.” In addition, I have learned that sources of misinterpretation can be from “inaccurately interpreting what is seen by using meaning to make sense out of individual reality” is misattribution of situation that does not reflect the reality of others (Adler, 2008,