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# Hall's High vs Low Context: AUSTRALIA= Medium-Low; CZECH REPUBLIC= Medium-Low; JAPAN= High; KOREA= High; NETHERLANDS= Medium-Low; RUSSIA= Medium-High; SINGAPORE= High; SWITZERLAND= Low
# Hall's Personal Space: AUSTRALIA= Medium-High; CZECH REPUBLIC= Medium; JAPAN= Medium-Low; KOREA= Low; NETHERLANDS= Medium-High; RUSSIA= Medium; SINGAPORE= Medium-Low; SWITZERLAND= High
# Trompenaars' Universalism vs. Particularism: AUSTRALIA=91; CZECH REPUBLIC=83; JAPAN=68; KOREA=37; NETHERLANDS=90; RUSSIA=44; SINGAPORE=69; SWITZERLAND=97
# Hofstede's Indulgence: AUSTRALIA=71; CZECH REPUBLIC=29; JAPAN=42; KOREA=29; NETHERLANDS=68; RUSSIA=20; SINGAPORE=46; SWITZERLAND=66
# Hofstede's Masculinity: AUSTRALIA=61; CZECH REPUBLIC=57; JAPAN=95; KOREA=39; NETHERLANDS=14; RUSSIA=36; SINGAPORE=48; SWITZERLAND=70
# Hofstede's Power Distance: AUSTRALIA=36; CZECH REPUBLIC=57; JAPAN=54; KOREA=60; NETHERLANDS=38; RUSSIA=93; SINGAPORE=74; SWITZERLAND=34
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Imagine a scenario where you would be sent from the headquarters of a multinational to one of its foreign subsidiaries to handle a contract dispute with an important client. Your company has been refusing to concede because the requirements of the scenario were clearly laid out in the contract both parties signed, but the client insists on changing them at a later date to suit their own needs. If your company insists on standing by the agreement, thereby refusing to concede, it risks losing any future working relationship with the client, because the client (and mostly everyone in the foreign country) strongly expects suppliers like you to make exceptions as needed. This would hardly happen in your country, where exceptions are not as expected or counted on. According to the data provided, and assuming the listed variables is all the information you have, there is a much GREATER probability that YOU ARE FROM a country such as ________, than from _______ :
Group of answer choices
SINGAPORE; NETHERLANDS
KOREA; AUSTRALIA
SWITZERLAND; RUSSIA
JAPAN; CZECH REPUBLIC

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