Movenpick Hotels and Resorts is an international hotel brand, which is focused on business and conference properties as well as on holiday resorts. Movenpick Company is owned by two companies, which are Mövenpick Holding which has 66.7% and the Kingdom Group with 33.3%. Movenpick Company was established in 1948 as a restaurant in Zurich with a non-smoking policy and premium quality food experience. After 10 years the number of operations grew up to 8 properties and in 1966 the first hotel was opened. Within 3 years after launching the first hotel, the production of Movenpick ice-cream has started. Currently, Movenpick hotels are existing in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa with 82 hotels, and 23 properties are recently under …show more content…
This type of belief represents the influence from German culture, which stands for equal rights. But, on the other hand, Switzerland is shown as a country with high level of individualism, where people are only carrying about themselves and their immediate relatives. This dimension also means that the career growth of individualist in any business is only based on personal characteristics and achievements. Next, Switzerland is a masculine society, which represents an idea “live in order to work’. Workers are putting emphasis into equity, performance and challenges. Moreover, in order to overcome conflicts, the society with a high masculinity is resolving them by fighting them out. Next dimension of 6-D model of Hofstede is an uncertainty avoidance, where Swiss culture shows the need for strict rules and people have a conviction to be punctual, because time is money for them. Also in this type of cultures people are usually prefer to be careful about decisions, because all available information with pros and cons must be gained before action. With a high score of 74 for the long term orientation Swiss culture is pragmatic. In this types of society people believe that everything depends on a situation and time as well as they can easily adopt their cultural backgrounds in order to achieve the needed result. The high score of indulgence means that society is very optimistic and places the leisure and recreational actions on the first step of their preferences (Geert-hofstede.com,