What are some ways that cultural values such as individualism/collectivism manifest in the workplace?

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What will be an ideal response?

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There are many implications and patterns of variation of these important differences with respect to organizational issues and globalization. Two of them are goal-setting and reward systems (individual vs. team- or organizationwide) and communications (gestures, eye contact, and body language in high-context cultures vs. precision with words in low-context cultures). Two others are performance feedback and assessment practices. With respect to performance feedback, the characteristics of the culture (vertical/horizontal or individual/collectivist) interact with the objectives, style, frequency, and inherent assumptions of the performance feedback process (Cascio, 2012a; Varela & Premaux, 2008; Varma, Budhwar, & McCusker, 2015). With respect to assessment practices, different cultures prefer different approaches, and there is the possibility of variation in validity across cultures.
Finally, there are implications for training and development. These include, for example, language training for expatriates, along with training to avoid the culture shock that results from repeated disorientation experienced by individuals in a foreign land whose customs and culture differ from one’s own (Cascio, 1998; Moran, Abramson, & Moran, 2014). In short, culture affects the ways we think, feel, and act.