Adrian Atalo Muoz Arrioja

ID: 145493
1. What is the definition of people orientation and task orientation? Before
answering the questionnaire, answer the following question: do you feel that
you are a more people orientated person or a more task orientated person?
Then, answer the P/T questionnaire and report the results. Are those results
surprising? How would your account for discrepancies, if it is the case?
I think Im a people oriented person because I like to treat, talk and work
with other persons.
Definitions:
People Oriented > Skilled at or focused on interaction with people: a
people-oriented business like consulting
(Oxford Dictionary)
Task Oriented > A task-oriented leader, manager, etc. Focuses on getting a
job done without worrying about the personal development or satisfaction of
the team.
(Cambridge Dictionary)
For my surprise my definition of those two adjectives were right and I still
can say I am a people oriented person

2. Where would you like to work first if you had to work in East Asia? Explain
why. Would you advise to manage operations in that area with a focus
on tasks or a focus on people? (Base your analysis for this question on the
elements and underlying definitions of concepts presented in the P/T test;
please argument the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and
their possible complementarity). On the basis of your results for this test,
relating them to other cultural analysis tools, do you think you would make a
good manager in the particular cultural area you chose first? Why or why
not?

Japan because I been there and I know how people work, maybe at the
beginning it will be a little difficult because people there are close to any
foreign intervention when it comes to work, but when you experience and
they star to accept you a lot of groups will also open. With my knowledge of
Japanese culture I would said that in japan will work better a task oriented
people because in japan they focused of getting thing done.
Yes I think I would be a good manager in Japan because I see myself more
with the results of japan in the cultural analysis tools.
3. What do you think would be your strengths and weaknesses in each of the
other

cultural

contexts

different

than

management tools to sustain your analysis)

yours?

(use

cross

cultural

Strengths > power distances, collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and

basically all the others cultural tools, I consider myself a very adaptive
person.
But thats the case because I been in japan and I know the culture, maybe
just a grasp of it but I wouldnt start from zero, in the case of china and
South Korea it would be a lot more shocking even if Im an adaptive person.
For example people in china tend to be more individualist than Mexico and
that would be a problem for me, because I tend to work better in groups and
talking with people about how to do our job or our task. For the example of
South Korea I definitely think my weakness will be the masculinity and
feminism between our cultures because South Korea has a trend to be
lower in terms of masculinity and Mexico its higher than South Korea.

4. How would you reinforce your strengths and compensate for your
weaknesses in those differing contexts?
I would reinforce my strengths reading about Japanese business culture and
etiquette, also for the daily basis I would read common Japanese culture
etiquettes like how to bow, how to speak, how to refer to other persons, but
the most important learning the language.
For China and South Korea it will not be that different from Japan, because
they are new cultures to me and I will have to learn about those cultures
from somewhere. This maybe a little vague form of learning a culture but its
the beginning of it, maybe after reading about the cultures I will need to be
there to experience from myself the cultures in those countries, also I think

that the gastronomic culture it is the door to understanding so many

cultures, because you could learn about history and social changes in one
country thru their food and not just because of the flavor in it.

References
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles_americano/people-oriented
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/task-oriented