dominant and shy

[Arno Baltin]

As I just couldnt' get free of the idea of relating os to a cultural 
perspective, I will state it once more in a bit different way.

There were some cases described with dominant and shy person. Both 
behaviour types were described in context of os and got some evaluation. 
Both were considered as „deviant“ needing some cure or healing. And 
there was a proposal that os can give the needed therapeutic effect and 
„normalise“ the behaviour of these participants.

This is one alternative. There is another. If we use not the individual 
psychological approach but group psychological or even more, cultural 
approach. From this perspective individual behaviour is rather product 
of his group identity. Every group regulates its members behaviour by 
sets of values. This is the idea behind cultural relative approach to 
organizational behaviour. Now we can see dominant person as one who 
comes from a group were behaviour is driven by values of competitiveness 
(masculinity), authority (long power distance), fight for truth (low 
tolerance for uncertainty) and individualism. The shy person comes from 
the group having sof values (feminity) and valuing persons dependence on 
group (collectivism, you dont have to have a separate opininon different 
of your group). In this interpretation the os can have impact on persons 
behaviour through values. This change could occur by changing somehow 
persons group identity.

OS community is bearing certain values, os as a technique of resolving 
problems, and as a way of life is getting into contact with different 
(organizational, ethnic) value sets. Probably the reception of os is 
different by participants with different cultural backgrounds.

In this perspective of cultural differences I very much liked the 
examples of use of time (Navajo) during discussions. Sometimes time is 
honey :)

with best regards,


Arno Baltin

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