dominant and shy

[Anne A Hiha]

Kia ora Arno

Thank you for sharing your perspective on the dominant and shy dimensions.  
Your words had bells ringing all over me.  I am not so sure that your 
interpretation of each character is necessarily the only one but to me it 
doesn't matter.  The most important thing I got from your discussion was 
that os is based on COMMUNITIES.

Regards

Anne A Hiha


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From: Arno Baltin <arno at tlu.ee>
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Subject: dominant and shy
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:56:09 +0200

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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