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Review question 1.
a. Fill in the table on the next slide for France, the United
States, and your country. In case you are a national of one
of the countries mentioned, choose another country.
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Review question 1.
Aspects France United States India
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Product and Process Design I
Review question 1.
b. Are there similarities and/or differences between your
culture and the others?
More similarities of portion sizes ,verities of food are
more in France and India but USA has less selection
option ,eating conversation is less important in India
and USA ,but having high values of conservation
,India most of the people use bikes and Car for travel
than walking
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Product and Process Design I
Review question 2.
a. Go to: https://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Fill in the following table with the values of each dimension for France,
United States and your country.
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Product and Process Design I
Review question 2.
b. Go to: https://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html
Read about the six cultural dimensions and briefly explain each of
them.
POWER DISTANCE
This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a
society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The fundamental
issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people.
People in societies exhibiting a large degree of Power Distance accept a
hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further
justification. In societies with low Power Distance, people strive to equalise the
distribution of power and demand justification for inequalities of power.
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Individualism:
Review question 2.
c. Give examples of how the cultural dimensions may explain the
similarities/differences mentioned in question 1.
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Product and Process Design I
Review question 3.
Which are the implications and challenges of cultural differences for
developing new products?
Implication :- India has largest cultural hub for the world ,it has
diverse culture in the different parts of India
Challenges ,India having various states and having different values
and food cultures ,some parts of India likes Vegetarian, some part
of Indian people likes meat products ,east costal people likes
seafoods ,center part of India like wheat and rice food ,North India
people likes only wheat breads ,south India food habits are rice
…tremendous challenges in terms of cultural differences ,of course
India is second largest consumers in the world ….
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