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CrossCross--Cultural ManagementCultural Management

GSM 5550GSM 5550

Dr Abdul Rashid AbdullahDr Abdul Rashid Abdullah

Title : How We Accord Status

Presenters: LeePresenters: Lee ChingChing--EeEe (GM 03688)(GM 03688)



Status

i. An important sociologically comes with:

A set of rights,

An obligations,

A behaviors, and Duties which is expected or encouraged to perform.

ii. These expectations are referred to as roles.

iii. Eg: The role of a "professor" includes teaching

students, answering their questions, being impartial, and dressing appropriately.



Division of Status

Achieved status:Refers to doing

Ascribed status:Refers to being



Achievement Or iented

i. A sociological term denoting a social

position that a person can acquire on the

basis of merit.ii. A position that is earned or chosen.

iii. It reflects personal skills, abilities, efforts and

talent.

iv. It is desirable.

v. Eg: UK, US, Canada, Argentina and etc.



Ascr iptive Or iented

i. A position which already been assigned to anindividual without reference to their innatedifferences or abilities.

ii. Determinants of ascribed status are: Sex,

Gender,

Race,

Appearance, and Citizenship.

iii. It is undesirable.



Continue««iv. Ascription can be divided into:

Delayed Ascription: When the social status is given

at a later stage of life

Fluid Ascription: When the ascribed status leads toan achieved status

v. Eg: China, Japan, France, India and etc.

vi. Eg: A person born into a wealthy family has a high

ascribed status based solely on the social networks

and economic ad vantages that one gains from being

born into a family with more resources than others.



vii. Eg: The caste system in India.

Everyone is born belonging to a specific caste.

The caste of the parents determines the status of their children,

regardless of ability or merit.

Brahmins- Consist of all priests, scholars, and enlightened people thathave been through many lives.

Kshatriyas- These are the rulers, warriors, and those concerned with

the defense and administration of the well-being of their town or

village.

V aishyas- Consisted of all the traders, merchants, and people involved

in agricultural production.

Sudra- They are laborers and servants for the other castes.

Untouchables- The lowest of the low. The jobs of these people include

the cleaning of dead bodies.

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Austria

United States

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Sweden

Singapore

Former Soviet Union

China

Indonesia

Venezuela

Achievement

Ascription

Achievement²Ascr iption



Summary of Achievement-Ascr iption

No Achievement oriented Ascription oriented

1. What you have done Who you are

2. Negative achievements may not

necessarily be people with positive

ascription.

Negative ascription sometimes become

those with positive achievements.

3. Respect for a Manager is based on

knowledge and skills.

Respect for a manager is based on seniority.

Senior manager basically are of

varies age and gender which they

have shown proficiency in specific

jobs.

Senior manager are male, middle-aged and

qualified by their background.

4. More reliance on team work. More to individualistic.

5. Decisions are challenged on technical

and functional grounds.

Decisions are only challenged by people

with higher authority

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