CULTURE & FAILURE

Impact of Culture on Failure

Impact of Culture on Failure

In the preparation of a program for training Americans to deal effectively with Thais, a large number of critical incidents (Flanagan, I 949) involving Americans and Far Easterns were analyzed. This analysis revealed that the use of criticism, as a mean of influencing performance, was a major source of tension. In the highly mobile Western culture, the performance of an individual is continuously evaluated and the expected reaction to failure is an attempt to improve performance. In Far Eastern cultures, on the other hand, the expression of criticism ...