Aim

The aim of this assignment is to develop your conceptual understanding of the role and significance of existing cultural constructs, such as Individualism-Collectivism, Cultural distance, and Cultural values.

This assignment aims to gain an in-depth understanding of one selected cultural construct, including its relevance and limitations to explain real-life issues.

For this Review, you are asked to choose a Cultural construct from a list of constructs provided.

Criteria for Assessment

1. Your conceptual understanding of your selected construct, more specifically:

• Your understanding of the meaning and underlying assumptions of the construct- please use your own words and avoid quotes from the literature.
• Your understanding of the reasons behind the criticisms and limitations of this construct in the literature, and your own assessment of these criticisms

2. Your in-depth Applied understanding of the relevance and limitations of your selected construct to explain real-life issues, more specifically:

• The quality of your critical, analytical reflection on the relevance/limitations of the construct to explain real-life issues in your chosen field of practice (eg. Community development, organizational psychology, human resource development, education, or human resource management… your choice.