Author Archives: andyandgirts

To conclude our blog we have plotted all cultural dimensions if both us and our countries on a graph. We were curious to see how our dimensions compared to those of our countries and, having spoken a lot about the individual countries, we wanted a visual representation of the differences and similarities in our cultures.Continue reading “Conclusions”

The environment in which people work is highly dependent on where they are and how leadership and decision making is viewed in that culture, may it be the culture of the country or of the business. We spoke about this and decided it comes down to three variables that, in general, decide the way aContinue reading “Leadership and decision making”

Even though Latvia, Scotland and Poland end up on the same end of the scale for the High and low context ideas of Hofstede we discussed how they are rather different when it comes to feedback and how they prefer to receive negative feedback. In Latvia it is very important not to openly criticize colleaguesContinue reading “feedback”

Language is a key component. Basic background of Latvian language. Latvian language is the official language of Latvia with around 1.3 million native speakers and 100 thousand abroad. Although Latvia has around 2 million inhabitants only 62% percent used it as their primary language at home. Latvian has some dialects, but you can barely hearContinue reading “Language”

Using Hofstede insights we discussed our countries and our cultural differences. The results were not that surprising for the guys to be honest. Both Andrew, Girts and Pawel knew that all nationalities are individualists by them self. The masculinity gap were a little surprising but we came to conclusion not every nation can be likeContinue reading “Country Comparison via Hofstede Insights”

Andrew is a 19 year old student who grew up in Germany with an Italian mother and a Scottish father. He now lives in the Hague studying ISPM at the university of applied sciences. He is keen to learn about new cultures and is starting with Latvia learning about it from Girts. Girts is a 24Continue reading “Get to know the guys.”

Scotland Scotland is a country very well known for its beautiful landscapes and of course for its Whisky. Scotland is the most northern of the United kingdom with a population of 5.4 million and there has always been a rivalry with their English neighbors in the south with wars dating back to the formation ofContinue reading “Scotland ? Latvia ? Poland ?”