Hofstedes's Cultural Theory

Geert Hofstedes is well known for his research on cross cultural groups and organizations. He developed cultural dimensions theory where he describes national cultures along different dimensions. Each person has their own individual personality, history, and interests. But all people share common human nature which is very social. We use language with collaboration and group competition. There are unwritten rules of how things work from human group to another human group. This is called ‘culture”. Culture provides moral standards about being an upstanding group member. Hofstedes theory for the Italian culture starts with Power Distance. First, what is Power Distance? Power distance is the extent to which the lower ranking of individuals …show more content…
Some of Italy’s beliefs are that they maintain the honored traditions and norms from their society while others encourage modern education as the way to be prepared for the future. Italy’s truth depends a lot on the situation, context, and time it is happening. They keep doing traditions that are held for many generations and have a strong belief in perseverance. European American culture is quite different. They have strong ideas and they categorize them as good or evil. An example is the strong beliefs they have. This could be with abortion, drugs, weapons, and government involvement. Many people have strong religious views and visiting church has increased. They are performance driven but only short term. An example is profit and loss. That is extremely important and they want quick results especially in the work …show more content…
The Italian culture is a masculine society and it has high expectations for men. It wants them to be very successful and to be driven in what they do. The children start at a young age with the belief that competition is good and being a winner is very important. Italians show they are successful by having beautiful things such as cars, a big house, a yacht and doing lots of traveling. These symbols are looked at as how they have succeeded in life. There is a big difference on the feminine society. The women care for others and it is about the quality of life. It is known that for women, their quality of life is a sign of their success in life and they get judged by that. It is important that the women like what they do. European American culture also show their Masculine drive individually. They usually show this drive up-front and it is not a