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Indian Culture |
Western Culture |
| 1.  It emphasizes on personal relationship. | 1.  Professional relationship is more important. |
| 2.  It is Family-oriented. Family- members provide suggestions and guidance to young ones in decision- making. Family is a whole-unit, individuals being part of it; so many a times, they cannot do whatever they want. They have to seek advice from others. | 2.  More individualistic in approach. Family members can take decision on their own. People believe in non-interference. It is an individual’s own life. So he should decide. When siblings grow up, become adults, they leave their family without any hesitation to live the life according to their liking. |
| 3.  It believes in joint-family. Here family members include grand-parents, uncle, aunt, parents and the children. | 3.  It emphasises on nuclear family i.e. a family consists of the parents and their children.
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| 4.  It teaches us to respect our parents, teachers and other elders. | 4.  It does not have much concern for respecting someone because he is an elderly person. It focuses, if an individual deserves praise for his good performance, others praise him, and may respect him also. |
| 5.  A unique combination of materialism and spiritualism. | 5.  More materialistic in its approach. |
| 6.  It emphasises on only giving and not to ask anything in return. | 6.  It believes in give and take relationship. |
| 7.  It insists to maintain a proper balance between profit making and social welfare. | 7.  Profit-maximisation is the ultimate objective of an organisation. To attract stakeholders it should fulfill social obligations. |
| 8.  Means are given equal importance like ends. It emphasises business should earn profit (end); but while earning the profit, organisations must take care of, how (means) they are earning, whether they are following ethical path or not. | 8.  It used to Emphasise that ends justify the means i.e. an organisation must earn profit which is the motto (end) of a business. While running the business whether it is following ethics or not (i.e. the means) is not that important as it has attained the end.
But now the situation is gradually changing. Organisations in West also gradually understanding that to run the business and earn profit from long-term perspective, business should be manages ethically. |
| 9.  God, human beings and other objects are interrelated. All animated and inanimate objects are parts of the Supreme Consciousness. Therefore, individuals must pay respect to all of them. | 9.  It does not believe in all these concepts. |
| 10. A natural concern is there to respect nature, to take care of environment. Nature should be treated as our mother. | 10. It emphasizes that we must take care of the environment for our own sake, for our survival, by maintaining the balance in ecosystem. |
Difference between Indian Culture & Western Culture
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