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Ahsen, Y. (2017). The Impact of Employees’ National/Regional Culture on the Adaptation to

Organizational Culture. Management Studies, 5(5). doi:10.17265/2328-

2185/2017.05.003

Culture is among the challenging factors that affect human behavior. According to

Ahsen (2017), culture is a necessary aspect for people to cohabit. It can sabotage

communication and interaction among people. Enterprises have to strike a balance between

people and business culture for them to succeed. Managers have to understand the value of

cultural differences between people both locally and nationally. The author supports

Hofstede’s dimension of culture, arguing that it is essential to manage multiple cultures in

the workplace. According to the author, people experience culture shock if they suspect that

they are being mistreated in the organization. Dealing with perceived cultural challenges

requires both management and employees working together in developing and implementing

diversity management strategies. Instead of crafting workplaces to suit individual culture

enterprises need to embrace a collective culture that accommodates all the cultural

differences in the workplace. Cross-cultural interaction helps generate more solutions and

opinions thus increased productivity.

Cooper, R. (2019). Culture Shock! Thailand: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette.

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte.

Cooper (2019), in his book Culture Shock, defines culture shock as a state of

disorientation that occurs to anyone who has been subjected to a new surroundings. The cultural

disorientation occurs as a result of discomfort in the new zone. The book provides expatriates

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1 Running head: CULTURE SHOCK Culture Shock Students’ Name: Institutional Affiliation: 2 CULTURE SHOCK Annotated bibliography Ahsen, Y. (2017). The Impact of Employees’ National/Regional Culture on the Adaptation to Organizational Culture. Management Studies, 5(5). doi:10.17265/23282185/2017.05.003 Culture is among the challenging factors that affect human behavior. According to Ahsen (2017), culture is a necessary aspect for people to cohabit. It can sabotage communication and interaction among people. Enterprises have to strike a balance between people and business culture for them to succeed. Managers have to understand the value of cultural differences between people both locally and nationally. The author supports Hofstede’s dimension of culture, arguing that it is essential to manage multiple cultures in the workplace. According to the author, people experience culture shock if they suspect that they are being mistreated in the organization. Dealing with perceived cultural challenges requires both management and employees working together in developing and implementing diversity management strategies. Instead of crafting workplaces to suit individual culture enterprises need to embrace a collective culture that accommodates all the cultural differences in the workplace. Cross-cultural interaction helps generate more solutions and opinions thus increased productivity. Cooper, R. (2019). Culture Shock! Thailand: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Sing ...
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