1. Power Distance
Means that the distribution of power among people and their perception, that power are not always equally distributed ("Power Distance Index | Clearly Cultural"). Society believe and accept the fact that there are inequalities may it be within family, social ranks and even in the politics. Most of the Asian countries exhibits high power distance, for instance, Malaysia that scored 100 according to Professor Geert Hofstede study. On the other hand, Austria marked 11 based on the same study, this means that power distance is low and it tends to equalize or balance everything when it comes to it.
In a workplace set up, hierarchy are normally followed lets take the Chinese Management style as an example. Chinese strongly live …show more content…
While women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. Both men and women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. (Hofstede (2001), Culture’s Consequences, 2nd ed. p 297).
Workplaces are usually more masculine than feminine ("On Femininity Vs. Masculinity In The Workplace - The Frisky". The Frisky. N.p., 2014). First, it is evident that the communication is in declarative style which is considered as masculine in contrast to feminine way which is soft and humble. Second, masculine culture is very competitive, they want to excel and be an achiever in all goals they’ve set. Though working for money is important for them awards or achievements matter. Feminine on the other hand balances quality of life and it is very important to them to always help others. Caring and nurturing are some of the nature of a female employer, money matters to them but the overall welfare of the employees out weigh it. Lastly, there are limitations for female bosses. For example, if the employees are mostly men, during activities like going out for a drink after their work she cannot join them for she might be left out especially with the way male talk in a certain topic. Or if she decided to join the team and tried hard to be one of them, impression …show more content…
While Collectivism, believed that his life belong to the society and that he must go with what was the set goals for everyone. Society comes first, he has no rights, and that he must sacrifice his values and goals for the group’s “greater good” ("Individualism Vs. Collectivism: Our Future, Our Choice - The Objective Standard").
There are two types of personality, introvert and extrovert these two can be like Individualism versus Collectivism culture. Introvert is a person that rarely mingle with other people while extrovert is the social one, he tends to be always in a group. In a workplace set up, these two stand out, there are employees that excel working alone and others are can be seen working in a team. Working alone do have an advantage, for you will be given a longer time to meticulously do the set goals to you. You will be doing alone all the inputs, ideas and researches by yourself. In contrast to the team, where ideas are collated first through brain storming or group discussions. Learning from others is one of the advantage of working in a team, learning from members experiences, ideas while achieving the common goal. The common disadvantage is that, for instance if the management set a shorter time frame to resolve an issue, since individual work
Means that the distribution of power among people and their perception, that power are not always equally distributed ("Power Distance Index | Clearly Cultural"). Society believe and accept the fact that there are inequalities may it be within family, social ranks and even in the politics. Most of the Asian countries exhibits high power distance, for instance, Malaysia that scored 100 according to Professor Geert Hofstede study. On the other hand, Austria marked 11 based on the same study, this means that power distance is low and it tends to equalize or balance everything when it comes to it.
In a workplace set up, hierarchy are normally followed lets take the Chinese Management style as an example. Chinese strongly live …show more content…
While women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. Both men and women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. (Hofstede (2001), Culture’s Consequences, 2nd ed. p 297).
Workplaces are usually more masculine than feminine ("On Femininity Vs. Masculinity In The Workplace - The Frisky". The Frisky. N.p., 2014). First, it is evident that the communication is in declarative style which is considered as masculine in contrast to feminine way which is soft and humble. Second, masculine culture is very competitive, they want to excel and be an achiever in all goals they’ve set. Though working for money is important for them awards or achievements matter. Feminine on the other hand balances quality of life and it is very important to them to always help others. Caring and nurturing are some of the nature of a female employer, money matters to them but the overall welfare of the employees out weigh it. Lastly, there are limitations for female bosses. For example, if the employees are mostly men, during activities like going out for a drink after their work she cannot join them for she might be left out especially with the way male talk in a certain topic. Or if she decided to join the team and tried hard to be one of them, impression …show more content…
While Collectivism, believed that his life belong to the society and that he must go with what was the set goals for everyone. Society comes first, he has no rights, and that he must sacrifice his values and goals for the group’s “greater good” ("Individualism Vs. Collectivism: Our Future, Our Choice - The Objective Standard").
There are two types of personality, introvert and extrovert these two can be like Individualism versus Collectivism culture. Introvert is a person that rarely mingle with other people while extrovert is the social one, he tends to be always in a group. In a workplace set up, these two stand out, there are employees that excel working alone and others are can be seen working in a team. Working alone do have an advantage, for you will be given a longer time to meticulously do the set goals to you. You will be doing alone all the inputs, ideas and researches by yourself. In contrast to the team, where ideas are collated first through brain storming or group discussions. Learning from others is one of the advantage of working in a team, learning from members experiences, ideas while achieving the common goal. The common disadvantage is that, for instance if the management set a shorter time frame to resolve an issue, since individual work