tailieunhanh - Business Across Cultures Culture for Business Series_3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'business across cultures culture for business series_3', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES The car and the pedestrian You are a passenger in a car driven by a close friend. He hits a pedestrian. You know he was going at least 35 miles per hour in an area of the city where the maximum speed allowed is 20 miles per hour. There are no witnesses. His lawyer says that if you are prepared to testify under oath that he was only driving at 20 miles per hour it may save him from serious consequences. How would you act in this case 1. There is a general obligation to tell the truth as a witness. I will not perjure myself before the court. Nor should any real friend expect this from me. 2. There is a general obligation to tell the truth in court and I will do so but I owe my friend an explanation and all the social and financial support I can organize. 3. My friend in trouble always comes first. I am not going to desert him before a court of strangers based on some abstract principle. 4. My friend in trouble gets my support whatever his testimony yet I would urge him to find in our friendship the strength that allows us both to tell the truth. 5. I will testify that my friend was going a little faster than the allowed speed and say that it was difficult to read the speedometer. assess their personal response we have therefore extended the original forced-choice questions to include options to reject reconcil 44 THE ORGANIZATION OF MEANING iation answers 1 and 3 compromise answer 5 and reconcile from the universal to the particular answer 2 or from the particular to the universal answer 4 . In this way we can assess both the cultural orientation of the individual in the way that they approach dilemmas more universalistic or more particularistic and their propensity to reconcile. Let s stress again that the central aim of this book is to help readers to improve and develop their ability to deal with dilemmas at both the personal level dilemmas faced when working with other people and at the level of the organization. As we ve said the .