文档介绍:CHAPTER 8Italian Culture PRISMs?To what extent should we anizations to control our lives??Should the customer be king??Does MBA stand for Mighty Business Attitude??What degree of obedience & loyalty do citizens owe to corrupt a government??Is profit more important than family??Individualism?Extended munity?Monochronic?Poychronic?Low Context?High Context?Social Ambiguity?Social Certainty?Low Power Distance?High power Distance?Mastery?Adaptation?Emotionally Neutral?Emotionally Expressive?Quantity of Life?Quality of lifeItaly is unique as a Latin culture in 2 ways: (1) It has achieved middle class affluence & (2) has a web of institutionsYesterday’s imperialism?Is the Roman Empire making eback??(The European Union)Florence, the Renaissance CityThe Enlightenment: The age of science & humanism (man, not the church, is the center of the universe)?Enrico Caruso?Christopher Columbus?Federico Fellini?Sophia Loren?Michelangelo?Maria Montessori?Luciano Pavarotti?o ini?Raphael?Giuseppi Verdi?Nicolo MachiavelliGiuseppe GaribaldiLeonardo DaVinciGalileo GalileiAlexandro VoltaGuglielmo io ArmaniSt. Francis of AssisiAndrea BocelliMachiavelli’s classic, The Prince: How to manipulate people anizations for power & self-gain. Manipulative Machiavellianism is alive & well throughout Italian & Western cultures: POLITICS: negative campaigning; fund raising; spin; lobbyingCORPORATIONS: advertising/PR; lobbying; accounting fraud; telemarketingMEDIA: political bias; political campaign advertising; talking heads (ideology struggles).