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National Culture - Hofstede Insights
- The cultural dimensions represent independent preferences for one state of affairs over another that distinguish countries (rather than individuals) from each other.
- culture can only be used meaningfully by comparison.
- 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.
- A society’s position on this dimension is reflected in whether people’s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “we.”
- The Masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement, heroism, assertiveness, and material rewards for success. Society at large is more competitive. Its opposite, Femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and quality of life.
- The Uncertainty Avoidance dimension expresses the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity. The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen?
- Every society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenges of the present and the future
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Societies who score low on this dimension, for example, prefer to maintain time-honoured traditions and norms while viewing societal change with suspicion.
Those with a culture which scores high, on the other hand, take a more pragmatic approach: they encourage thrift and efforts in modern education as a way to prepare for the future.
- Indulgence stands for a society that allows relatively free gratification of basic and natural human drives related to enjoying life and having fun. Restraint stands for a society that suppresses gratification of needs and regulates it by means of strict social norms.
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- More than 60 percent believe it will transform the automotive industry, oil and gas industries, life sciences and financial services.
- Although we keep reading that blockchain is going to disrupt transactions around the world, the reality is that very few companies have ventured to transform their processes. Executives think there are not many projects that justify the effort of implementing this technology in any of its services.
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Priorities and Characteristics of the New Learning Leaders — Observatory of Educational Innovation
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- Create an ecosystem that encourages digital learning in school.
- Modeling with professors the professional learning that stimulates constant updating, self-evaluation, experimentation and the use of new methodologies.
- Guarantee students access to learning at any time and in any place.
- Enable ubiquitous connectivity for students and teachers.
- Advocate for a diversity of strategies to influence students wherever they are.
- Communicate a shared vision within the school community, including parents.
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- They promote mixed learning, competency-based learning and flipped learning in their educational institutions.
- They handle data to exercise their leadership; to inform objectives, give feedback to teachers, and show outcomes to parents, among others.
- They maintain high morale of teachers through training and support to adopt new strategies and digital materials.
- They are updated continuously by attending conferences, watching webinars and TED talks, as well as following Twitter experts.
- They continuously communicate with parents changes in school practices or educational innovations that they implement.
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