1. The Symbol of Singapore is the Merlion, half lion and half fishSingapore Krystal Aguilar

2. Welcome You have expressed an interest in working abroad through AIESECs professional internship program. This international experience will be a benefit for both your personal and professional growth. There is good news for you. Singapore is continuing to build businesses and they need you. Before you venture there lets learn about their culture and what to expect. 3. "Our labour market is small, so competition for labour and talent is severe... Our Singapore market is also small, so to expand we'll have to go out of Singapore. -Minister Heng Swee Keat. 4. Presentation Game plan Anthem Location Demographics Culture Motivation Decisions Business News Culture Shock 5. National Anthem Let us get to know more about the Singaporean culture. Take a listen and look with the following video: 6. National AnthemCheck-out the beautiful flag of the Republic of Singapore too! 7. Location So where exactly is Singapore? you may be asking. 8. Demographics Let us see how the numbers paint a picture of the people of Singapore. 9. Singaporeans Ethnic Groups ChineseMalayIndianOther1% 8% 14%77%2000 Census 10. Singaporeans Religion PercentNone0.7 4.8 4Catholic Taoist9.8 8.5Buddhist 014.814.9 42.51020302000 Census4050 11. Singaporeans Singlish is common with adding la to the end of sentences. Language Percent 40 30 20 10 0352314.1 11.45.7 4.93.2 1.8 0.92000 Census 12. SingaporeansAge Structure 50.1% 25-54 years old 18.2% 15-24 years old 13.6% 0-14 years old 13. Culture What do the people of Singapore value and how do they behave? Well find out by using Geert Hofstedes dimensions. He is an organizational psychology professor that has done plenty of research and studies how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. 14. Hofstede ModelHere we have the dimensions of Singapore, in blue, and the United Sates in red. From the far left is power distance, then individualism, masculinity versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation which is also referred to as Confucian Dynamism. Ill expand upon these further into the presentation. 15. Power DistanceSingapore 16. IndividualismSingapore 17. Masculinity versus FemininitySingapore 18. Uncertainty AvoidanceSingapore 19. Long-term OrientationSingapore 20. Motivation What motivates you may not necessarily motivate your coworker. To better understand and work with your cubicle-mates you have to understand their culture and what is important to them. This entails the needs they want to fulfill. The needs may be intrinsic or extrinsic, from wanting to learn a new skill to being able to pay rent. 21. Maslows Hierarchy 22. Decision-making When making decisions at our international internship we have to realize that not everyone and every culture does things our way. It is easy to conclude that our way is the right, best and most efficient way but open your mind to new approaches and the underlying reason for Singaporeans methods. Next up we will show you some things to consider when making decisions. 23. Culture and Making Decisions Orientation to Activity In Singapore, the Malay subculture tends to accept life as it is. Overall though they are in the middle but slightly valuing feminine qualities. Who makes decision? Singaporeans are group-oriented and collectivistic with a score of 20 in individualism. So you guessed it, they make group decisions. At what level are decisions made? Remember they ranked 74 in power distance. Decisions are made from the person in charge who has centralized power. Speed of decision making This depends since they are in the middle for long-term orientation. Their economy has boomed in the past 50 years but they still like to invest longterm and persevere. 24. Business News So lets see how we can apply what we learned to realworld, real-life business news from Singapore. 25. Investing Long-term 26. Feminine Values 27. More Rules & Collectivism 28. Collectivistic & Femininity 29. Culture Shock Watch out, it might happen to you. We will show you the stages so you can recognize if it is happening to you. We will also give you advice to better prepare you for your journey to and from your international assignment. 30. Culture Shock and Reverse 31. Resources to Prepare Keep an open mind, be open to learn, be respectful, show appreciation and interest in culture AIESEC Alumni network and blogs Connecting with local or international expats on Linkedin.com and interviewing them Learn about the culture through Youtube videos, museums, organizations, travel dvds Create your own blog on Blogger or on an expat or intern forum 32. Resources to Prepare https://www.aiesec.org/#/learnmore http://hbr.org/2004/10/cultural-intelligence http://www.international-business-center.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=693&mostP opular=&trk=tyah&trkInfo=tas%3Aaies%2Cidx%3 A3-1-7 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414314,0 0.asp