Seminar on public and municipal administration in a foreign language Seminar 1

to their ways of communicating, into high-context (much of the

information is implicit) and low-context cultures (nearly everything is explicit).

U.S. sociologists Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils (1951) suggested that all
human action is determined by five pattern variables, choices between pairs of alternatives:
1. Affectivity (need gratification) versus affective neutrality (restraint of impulses);
2. Self-orientation versus collectivity-orientation;
3. Universalism (applying general standards) versus particularism (taking particular
relationships into account);
4. Ascription (judging others by who they are) versus achievement (judging them by
what they do);
5. Specificity (limiting relations to others to specific spheres) versus diffuseness (no
prior limitations to nature of relations).

survey study regarding national values differences across the worldwide:
he

compared the answers of 117,000 IBM matched employees samples on the same attitude survey in different countries

basic issues that society needs to come to term with

in order to organize itself.

These are called dimensions of culture.

Each of them has been expressed on a scale that runs roughly from 0 to 100.

from a merger between Itim International and The Hofstede Centre

and deliver solutions:
to optimise international teamwork;
to improve global cooperation;
to find the right balance between standardisation and localization.

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/

the materials.
2. Prepare the "cultural profile" of Russia using the

Hofstede parameters.
35 minutes to prepare, then present the results 

and presentation on the topic “Russia and… your country”
!!! I'm

waiting for 2 documents – the written essay and the ppt presentation!!!
Questions:
The brief description of the each model (essay)
The comparison of Russia and foreign country by the criterions of the models (essay+ ppt)
How can we use this information in public and municipal administration? (essay+ ppt)

Presentation time- 7 minutes!!