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The workplace cultural diversity and perceptions : African versus Western perspective
Title:
The workplace cultural diversity and perceptions : African versus Western perspective
Author:
Pretorius, W. J.
ISBN:
9780958411899
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Publication Information:
Hatfield, SA : Institute for african languages, 2005.
Physical Description:
100 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
General learning outcomes -- Unit 1: Culture -- African cultures -- Products of action -- Distinctive achievements -- Convictions and values -- Language, literary treasures and art creaions [sic] -- Distinctive habits and social patterns -- Inherited cultural creations and symbols -- Unit 2: African versus western cultures -- Individualism versus communalism -- Unit 3: The manifestation of individualism, communalism and other culturally-related customs in a work situation -- Debating fundamental issues -- Decision making process -- Unit 4: Perception of time -- Unit 5: Economic orientation -- Ubuntu: economic determinant -- Property -- Unit 6: Leadership and wealth -- The status of women versus men -- Unit 8: Community vulnerability versus individual vulnerability -- Unit 9: Loyalty divided between the group and the workplace -- Unit 10: Socially open versus socially closed inhibition versus rowdiness -- Unit 11: Social customs: etiquette and appreciation -- Unit 12: Greeting and eye contact -- Unti 13 : Courtesy and over-eagerness -- Social and public status -- Unit 14: Privacy and cohabitation -- Unemotional physical contact -- Unit 15: Humour: specialized form versus part of everyday life situations -- Unit 16: Religion -- Unit 17: Witchcraft and supernatural powers -- Unit 18: The effects of witchcraft in a modern working context -- Strange behaviour -- Responsibility for own deeds and actions -- Unit 19: Sport and music -- Unit 20: Mutual values and understanding.
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