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INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS OF GERMAN STUDENTS AT CZECH UNIVERSITIES
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The aim of the contribution is to highlight intercultural awareness of German students, who have studied at Czech universities to get a degree. Measurement of intercultural sensitivity has been realized by means of four dimensions, elaborated by organizational psychologists Geert Hofstede and Fons von Trompenaars: power distance, particularism versus universalism, collectivism versus individualism and uncertainty avoidance. The first dimension power distance measured the perspective of German students at Czech universities on social hierarchies and to which degree that are convinced of the fact, that unequal distribution of power in society is accepted by those people, who are at the lower end of the hierarchy. The measurement of the second dimension particularism versus universalism has shown whether German students at Czech universities believe that each circumstance and each relationship dictate the rule or whether specific circumstances and personal relationships, instead of universal values, give them autonomy to make their own decisions. The third dimension collectivism and individualism measured what German students at Czech universities think about wellbeing of group or attaining personal goals. The fourth dimension high uncertainty avoidance measured what is the assessment of German students at Czech universities of uncertainty, ambiguity and risk-taking and whether they prefer 'unknown' to rules and regulations.
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