1st Entry- Bus Com Class

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General Course of the Class:

Today's  main focus was explaining how this class works using a google document, learning how to write a good paragraph, and learning how to use Hofstede Tools to compare different countries in some culture-specific ways. We first off started with detecting the new students. Rab explained how the google document is used to manage the general necessary information we need to have this class, such as contact info and blog links. Then Rab gave an introduction to how to set up our blog accounts and use blogger.com to publish our paragraphs. Secondly, we moved on to using use Hofstede Tool. It was highly engaging for me in terms of comparing different countries in a concise way. I found myself listening very carefully to our lecturer during this part of the class. Finally, the last session of our class was about choosing four countries we like to compare and share with our friends in the break-out rooms. I choose my country Turkey then added three northern European countries. The reason for this comparison was to see if the points are close in different culture-specific standards in the three high-standard European countries, then compare it with my country Turkey. In today's class, we learned how to use may digital tools and it was quite fun.

My Reaction:

I liked how we got to compare different countries in such an easy way using Hofstede Tools. There were three aspects I liked most. The first one is that I am pretty surprised by how the consulting agency separated the characteristic of the society into two as in "masculine and feminine society". Until now, I have never thought about the distinctive ways societies act. It got me really curious about how societies turn out to be one way or another. The second thing that caught my interest was actually the definitions of these terms. For example, when masculinity is prioritized in one society it means that people are striving for is to be the best. On the other hand, being feminine in the context of certain ways society shapes its culture means providing a better quality of life. I am super intrigued by the distinction made by this website, not because I am opposed to or in favor of what has been stated, but because I love reading such analyses. The last thing I found interesting was that there was no correlation between the Masculinity point and Uncertainty Avoidance point of the countries. I might have supposed that as masculinity goes up taking risks should go up as well. However, when I look at the points there was no such correlation. I am intrigued by how there are different aspects to compare and analyze by using this easy tool called Hofstede Tools.


*Country Comparison - Hofstede Insights (hofstede-insights.com)     

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