Diversité culturelle et enjeux culturels (document en anglais)

To accept the fact that there are many roads to truth and no culture has a corner on the path or is better equipped than others to search for it

Hofstede

« the principle of surviving in a multicultural world is that one does not need to think, feel and act in the same way in order to agree on practical issues to coorporate »

academic research

1. research methodology

2. research paradims

3. research approch

4. choosing a research strategy

5. generating problematics

6. infering hypothesis

7. credibility of a research

academic research= basic research

purpose : expand knowledge of processes in various fields

results : universal principles relating to processes and outcomes

significance and value for the society

research methodology

part1 :

litterature review

setting and approach

deciding in a research approach

infering hypothesis

setting a problematics

party 2 :

methodology

ground research

results

managerial implications

further research

setting an approach/research paradigms

definitions :

epistemology

the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge

constructivism

paradim : deals with the way people create meaning of the world through a series of individual constructs

constructs are the diffirent types of filters we choose to place over our realities to change our reality from chaos to order

deduction :

- scientific principles

- from theory to date

- causal relationship between data

- quantitative data

- highly structured approach

- researcher independance

- samples of sufficient size

- generalization of conclusions

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