Slovenia

Culture Cultural Factors in Communication

• Values: clean, polite, • Communication pattern: are not
nationalistic, love of nature particularly talkative people.
and mountain climbing, • Listening Habits: good listeners.
truthful, love of music, • Behavior at Meetings and
catholic. Negotiations: meetings in Slovenia
Concepts are orderly affairs and Slovene
• Leadership and Status: negotiating characteristics are
Slovenes have been denied fuctuality, rationality, structure,
the right to rule themselves.
procedures and persistence.
• Space and Time: love the • Manners and Taboos: well-
outdoors and their mountains. mannared people.
 Croatia
Culture
• Values: Catholic attitudes, social
envy, respect for education,
pessimism, strong family
attachments.
Concepts
• Leadership and Status: respect
money, power, and influence.
• Space and Time: tactile and
demonstrative
Cultural Factors in Communication
• Communication Pattern: strong
opinion, especially in the political.
• Listening Habits: not the
world’s best listeners.
• Behavior at Meetings and
Negotiations: very eager
and negotiations openly
forceful.
• Manners and Taboos: eye
contact is important; it is
advisable to remove
sunglasses while conversing
with someone.
 Serbia
Culture
• Values: openness, romanticism,
nationalism, unpredictability, low
legal consciousness.
Concepts
• Leadership and Status: nationalistic
issues.
• Space and Time: tactile and
personal.
Cultural Factors in Communication
• Communication Pattern:
charismatic to an extradionary
degree and present themselves
well to foreigners.
• Listening Habits:very
attentive
• Behavior at Meetings and
Negotiations: not averse to
asking for sympathy and
help (especially from
Westerners)
• Manners and Taboos: rich in
folklore and rural traditions
and still observe old-
fashioned.
 Bulgaria
Culture
• Values: pragmatic, disciplined,
good organizers, cautions.
Concepts
• Leadership and Status: likely to
be less autocratic than Serbian
or Greek.
• Space and Time: not
overcrowded country.
Cultural Factors in Communication
• Communication Pattern: reticent
and reserved in the early stages
of acquintance.
• Listening Habits: listeners
excellent.
• Behavior at Meetings and
Negotiations: meeting in
Bulgarian are generally
affairs.
• Manners and Taboos: same
like other Balkan people,
are extremely hospitable
and will share with guests
what little they have.
 Romania
Culture
• Values: nepotism, self-
importance, social corruption,
obesession to survive.
Concepts
• Leadership and Status: part of
Europe that was inhabited.
• Space and Time: meeting usually
start 30-45 minutes late.
Cultural Factors in Communication
• Communication Pattern:
oratorical by nature and rarely
answer questions with yes or no.
• Listening Habits: attentive
but suspicious listeners and
use to lengthy presentations
and argumennts.
• Behavior at Meetings and
Negotiations: skilled
diplomats and negotiators
and hard bargaining faces
any foreigners who wish to
do business with them.
• Manners and Taboos:
embrassingly hospitable.
 Finland
Culture
• Values:love freedom,
independent, democratic,
tolerant, hardworking and
intellegent.
Concepts
• Leadership and Status: low profile
• Space and Time: clear cut and
unambiguous.
Cultural Factors in Communication
• Communication Pattern: display
obvious weakness in
communication.
• Behavior in the Business
Environment: embedded in
the genersl finnish image,
which is perpetuated by the
Finns themselves and
accepted hook, line, and
sinker by foreigners who
have little knowledge of
Finland.
 Sweden
Culture • Behavior in the Business
• Values: loyalty, equality, Environment: decentralized
love of nature, kindness, and democratic.
honesty, tolerance, love of
peace, cleanliness.