TRUSTING

Cultural Dimensions TRUSTING Two Types of Trust: Relationship-Based or Task-Based? Erin Meyer describes the dimension of trust as cognitive trust vs. affective trust. Cognitive trust is based on the confidence you feel in another person’s accomplishments, skills, and...

SCHEDULING

Cultural Dimensions SCHEDULING How Different Cultures Manage Time This dimension explores how countries approach time and schedule, with some being more sequential or linear and others being more flexible. All businesses follow agendas and timetables, but in some...

Italian Symbols & Artifacts

Decoding Cultures- ITALY Italian Symbols & Artifacts National symbols represent the visible part of any culture, the one that can be perceived with our 5 senses. Symbols have a strong correlation with the image of the country and are the basic element of national...

Italian Values, heroes and personalities

Core Values & Key Principles   Switzerland is deeply rooted in western European culture Swiss values are basically (western) European values, based on concepts of freedom, liberalism, pluralism, tolerance and last but not least secularization (which marks a...

Key Historical events of Italy

Decoding Cultures- Italy Key Historical Events of Italy Defining moments that shaped the culture of the country.     Divided by culture, the Swiss are united by force of will.  As the different cultural groups (Swiss German, French, Italian and Raetho...