Is National Culture A Myth by Professor - Geert Hofstede精品分析.pptVIP

Steps towards a real analysis Even a preliminary analysis of industrial relations masculine Ireland would need to consider: the common educational background of many of the employees and managers; the dominant position of one trade union; the series of national pay agreements and partnership deals between government, employers and trade unions; employee appointment of one third of the main board of state companies; the effects of changes in fiscal policy on take-home pay; the rivalries between craft unions wholly based in Ireland and those with continuing affiliations to largely UK based trade unions; and so forth. ? * Hofstede’s chronic a proiriismVindicating not Validating He fails to look for counter-evidence. Consciously or not he fits a very partial account of events to a particular national culture depiction. His stories are mere dogmatic fitting to what he already ‘knows’ Karl Popper states that ‘so long as a theory withstands detailed and severe tests … we may say that it has proved its mettle or that it is corroborated.’ Hofstede’s stories cannot withstand even the mildest testing The only serious question left re Hofstede’s work is why has his nonsense been treated seriously in the management disciplines? * 3 Further Criticisms The influence of other cultures Non-cultural influences Change * 1. The influence of other cultures If ‘culture’ is theorized as influential why should such influence be restricted to national culture? If other cultures are accepted as potentially influential how can uniform national actions/practices (across time and space) be their consequence? * 2. Non-cultural influences Why should cultural-causation (national or non-national) be privileged over administrative, coercive means of social action? Hitler’s New Order was an order (Gellner, 1987). Would it [have been] meaningful, for example, to talk of the religiosity of the Spaniards without a description of the monopolistic position of the [Catholic] church in Spain [unde