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Effects of Culture on Production: Influence of Cultural Differences on Economic Performance of Human Capital
Šenkýřová, Jitka ; Benáček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Eckertová, Eva (referee)
Title Effects of Culture on Production: Influence of Cultural Differences on Economic Performance of Human Capital Abstract Within the Thesis the concept of production function is described and human capital as one the main inputs is further examined. The main focus of this thesis is to discover whether there is any effect of culture on production. Such aim will be examined by testing the null hypothesis that there is no effect of cultural dimensions on production. The null hypothesis is tested by regression analysis. JEL Classication D24, E24, J24, Z19 Keywords Production, Production Function, Human Capital, Culture, Cultural Dimensions, Hofstede, Long-Term Orientation Author's e-mail: jitkasenkyrova@email.cz Supervisor's e-mail: benacekv@fsv.cuni.cz 1
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The relationship of cultural and non-cultural characteristics of countries with the sharing economy size
Filonau, Ilya ; Chytilová, Julie (advisor) ; Cahlík, Tomáš (referee)
Within the thesis, the concept of sharing economy is described and the relationship of cultural characteristics among different countries with its size and adoption is examined. The main aim is to understand whether cultural characteristics are significant at explaining the rate of adoption of sharing economy. The relationship between sharing economy size and non-cultural characteristics is assessed as well. This is done with the use of regression analysis. Keywords: Sharing Economy, Digital Platforms, Hofstede, Cultural Dimensions, Internet Penetration, Economic Freedom Author's email: ilya.filonau@gmail.com Character count: 86 841
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Cultural relativism in expats time management in DHL Maastricht
Yuzkiv, Viktoriya ; Procházka, David Anthony (advisor) ; Surynek, Alois (referee)
The ability to manage time in todays modern world is a key skill that determines our professional and personal success. To learn how to manage our time firstly we need to understand what influence our perception of time, our motivation, and our goal setting. This topic we are discussing in this bachelor thesis. In a theoretical part, we describe different cultural aspects, that influence out time management. In a practical part, we are analysing interviews that we made with respondents from 10 different countries and base on it we are trying to appoint if culture indeed influence out time management. Then we created the categories, small groups of respondents that had similar opinion on certain issue. Base on our analysis we discovered that cultural factor has quite small influence on time management and that there are many other factors like age, phenomenon of gender equity, personal experience that also influence our time management.
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Culturally determined management traits regarding selected organization types
Botlíková, Anežka ; Havrdová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šafr, Jiří (referee)
This master thesis illustrates the universality of Schwartz's value theory approach: culture of any group of people may be subject to the research and its value profile has a universal format. Both Czech and Finnish national value profiles and the value profiles of the helping professions in these two countries were calculated, based on data from The European Social Survey in 2012. On national levels, these profiles are representative. On the levels of helping professions, however, the profiles only serve as a model example-no representative data were available. In comparison with their national value profile, Czech model representatives of the helping professions attach more importance to all basic values in Schwartz's theory. In Finland, this is not the case for power, achievement, self-direction and security. This master thesis proposes several recommendations for potential surveys dealing with the impact of national culture on organization culture in health and social facilities. Especially, it highlights the necessity for quality value profiles of the structured helping professions. The reason for doing so is the outlined possibility (and maybe also necessity) to take different positions of individual professions into consideration. It also suggests to search for mathematical relations between...
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Influence of Culture on Macroeconomic Stability
Šenkýřová, Jitka ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Gregor, Martin (referee)
This thesis investigates the effect of individual countries' cultural character- istics on macroeconomic stability. Macroeconomic stability is a general con- cept that comprises the stable development of several economic parameters - inflation, government budget, external debt, gross domestic product, and oth- ers. The mainstream economics investigates these indicators usually as being shaped only by wealth, political stability and institutions. However recently, the economic literature reveals the relationship between some of the individ- ual cultural characteristics - mainly trust - and macroeconomic (in)stability. This thesis is the first attempt to analyze the effect of complex set of cultural characteristics on macroeconomic stability. Through the lens of panel data re- gression it is shown that the macroeconomic stability is significantly affected by cultural characteristics. In particular, more individualistic countries tend to have lower macroeconomic stability. Furthermore, in countries where people feel stronger fear about uncertainty the macroeconomic stability is also weaker. On the contrary from the previous studies, the positive effect of higher trust on macroeconomic stability is not confirmed. JEL Classification C33, E03, Z10, Z19 Keywords Macroeconomic stability, Cultural economics,...
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Effects of Culture on Production: Influence of Cultural Differences on Economic Performance of Human Capital
Šenkýřová, Jitka ; Benáček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Eckertová, Eva (referee)
Title Effects of Culture on Production: Influence of Cultural Differences on Economic Performance of Human Capital Abstract Within the Thesis the concept of production function is described and human capital as one the main inputs is further examined. The main focus of this thesis is to discover whether there is any effect of culture on production. Such aim will be examined by testing the null hypothesis that there is no effect of cultural dimensions on production. The null hypothesis is tested by regression analysis. JEL Classication D24, E24, J24, Z19 Keywords Production, Production Function, Human Capital, Culture, Cultural Dimensions, Hofstede, Long-Term Orientation Author's e-mail: jitkasenkyrova@email.cz Supervisor's e-mail: benacekv@fsv.cuni.cz 1
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Communications Intercultural Aspect in Working Environment of a chosen Firm
Jenšovský, Šimon ; Hiršová, Miloslava (advisor) ; Balgová, Dagmar (referee)
The thesis covers cultural differences among employees of a multi-national corporation in relation to communication and task execution. Thesis aims to construct a theoretical framework to map these cultural differences and apply gathered insights in practical research targeting the effect of cultural differences on communication and task execution. Research questionnaire replicates Hofstede's work and also builds on practical application of Hofstede's work by several authors. Research data were gathered via digital questionnaire. Data refinement and evaluation was conducted using frequency description and statistical methods of structure comparison. The thesis provides a set of practical recommendations as a result. These are aimed to help reduce or possibly eliminate negative effects of cultural differences in the workplace.
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Cultural standards and their impacts on business negotiation - case study of China
Svobodová, Kateřina ; Maitah, Mansoor (advisor) ; Malec, Karel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the impact of cultural standards on business negotiation focusing on China. In this work were used descriptive and comparative methods of investigation. The first part deals with culture as it is, provides the demarcation of concepts as culture, cultural relativism or organizational culture. Further provides partitions of some specifics of culture and a brief description of history and its evolution. Consequently contains a detailed description of cultural dimensis theory from Geert Hofstede, which is consisted of five parts: power distance, collectivisme versus individualisme, masculinity versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance and long term orientation.
In the second part is application of these dimensions on Chinese culture. Below are specific features of Chinese culture, like mianzi - face, guanxi - connections and also are described some aspects of business etiquette with particular focus on negotiations in China. Practical part demonstrates that the Chinese culture plays a significant role in trade negotiations with Chinese partners.
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