Cultural profiles for overcoming communicative barriers: Australia vs Russia

Cultural profiles for overcoming communicative barriers: Australia vs Russia

Recommendations

LONG TERM ORIENTATION

There should concentrate more on savings for the future

Australian business partner

Great respect for traditions

great respect for traditions

Conflicts are resolved at the individual level

Focus on achieving quick results

focus on achieving quick results

Employees are expected to be self-reliant and display initiative

Dissonance zones

The dominant values in society are caring for others and quality of life.

Australia will sacrifice family and leisure priorities to work.

Russians prefer to help each other and be a team.

loosely-knit society in which the expectation is that people look after themselves and their immediate families

Russians often can`t afford to live in their satisfaction and are forced to limit themselves

They place a higher degree of importance on leisure time, act as they please and spend money as they wish

Australia vs Russia

Australia

People possess a positive attitude and have a tendency towards optimism

Australia has a normative culture

middle score on Uncertainty Avoidance

Australia is a Masculine society

Australia highly Individualist culture

Hierarchy is established for convenience

Russia

Indulgence

Russian society has a tendency to cynicism and pessimism

Long term orientation

Pragmatic mindset

Uncertainty avoidance

Society is threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations

Masculinity

A Feminine society

Indiviidualism

Collectivist society

Power distance

Power holders are very distant in society.