Understanding individualistic and collectivist cultures is essential to understand how conflicts are understood and resolved, but also about how communication about conflict occurs. Please describe the major differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures, and how cultures have been classified according to that distinction.
What will be an ideal response?
In their response, students should address the idea that in individualistic cultures, the interest of the individual prevails over the group. The opposite is true for the collectivistic societies. Responses need to describe the main characteristics of each one. Furthermore, responses should refer to the main classification of cultures as proposed by Hofstede.
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