The Cultural Environment Facing Business: The Java Lounge - Adjusting To Saudi Arabian Culture
Saudi Arabian culture is characterized by strict religious convictions and ancient social customs. Interactions between males and females are limited, and questions about families are considered rude. Women wear abayas and men wear thobes. Women in Riyadh cover their faces with garhas. While Jeddah is less conservative than other areas due to its port city role. Saudi culture also forbids displays of women's faces, gambling, interest charges, and accident insurance sales, though the government has modified some prohibitions to enable business. However, domestic culture and values are changing due to interactions with foreigners and efforts toward economic growth.
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The Cultural Environment Facing Business: The Java Lounge - Adjusting To Saudi Arabian Culture
Saudi Arabian culture is characterized by strict religious convictions and ancient social customs. Interactions between males and females are limited, and questions about families are considered rude. Women wear abayas and men wear thobes. Women in Riyadh cover their faces with garhas. While Jeddah is less conservative than other areas due to its port city role. Saudi culture also forbids displays of women's faces, gambling, interest charges, and accident insurance sales, though the government has modified some prohibitions to enable business. However, domestic culture and values are changing due to interactions with foreigners and efforts toward economic growth.
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THE CULTURAL
ENVIRONMENT FACING BUSINESS
The java lounge – Adjusting to Saudi Arabian culture
CULTURE OF SAUDI ARABIA Strict religious conviction and ancient social customs. In Saudi Arabia male –female interaction is limited.
Saudis also view the home as private and regard
questions about families as rude and invasive. The Saudi Arabia women wear abayas and men must wear thobes. In Riyadh, women wear garhas that covers the face.
Jeddah is a city which is situated near to the port where
maximum foreigners comes and this place is less conservative than any other place of Saudi. In 2000, the Saudi government ratified an international agreement eliminating discrimination against women. In Saudi women comprise a large portion of teachers and doctors. women’s can not operate private law nor they can they be engineers. Recently they are allowed for hotel and banking fields.
Women and men can not work together.
Women and men can not do the shopping at the same
floor and which floor ladies are doing the shopping, there no sales men will be. There is objection to the display of a woman’s face. Ban on gambling.
There is forbids on charging interest and the selling of
the accident in insurance. In the case of the mortgages, the Saudi government gets around the proscription by offering interest – free loans. As for accident insurance, the government simply eliminated the prohibition because Saudi business. The women's buy the items, cosmetic goods and jewelry which they wear abroad and in Saudi Arabia, they wear in front of the women’s and their husband. Satellite dishes are also forbidden. Now there are a drastically change in domestic culture and social values due to the interaction between Saudi Arabian and foreigners and strive for the economic growth.