Geert Hofstede

Collectivism implies that people are integrated from birth into strong, cohesive groups that protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Hofstede found that individualistic cultures value personal time, freedom, challenge, and such extrinsic motivators as material rewards at work. In family relations, they value honesty/truth, talking things out, using guilt to achieve behavioral goals, and maintaining self-respect. Their societies and governments place individual social-economic…

introduce briefly the Hofstede model and the Globe study. Another important theory, which is connected to cross-cultural management is emotional intelligence, which became popular with Daniel Goleman. Therefore, I also want to include a short part about emotional intelligence. After the theoretical part I am going to talk about my personal experiences, combining them with my learnings and also discussing my future goals. Due to the globalization process…

To start, they are on opposite aspects of the individualism dimension. Jordan scores really low in this category which according to Hofstede Insights (2018), is considered a collectivistic society. In a collectivistic society, people have commitments to groups and families. In Jordan family is very important and everyone takes responsibility and is loyal to all members of the family…

different dynamics to the workplace. Power Distance Dimension “Power Distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally” (Geert Hofstede, n.d.). China has a very high ranking score in this dimension with a score of…

demonstrating compliance with the hierarchy of needs of Maslow. Geert Hofstede is an author who has criticized the motivation theory of Maslow, especially that part in which it is stated that the basic needs tend to be universal to all cultures manifest although superficially different ways. Maslow argues that self-realization is the highest level of satisfaction that a human being can achieve in any society, which according to Hofstede (1984) may be true in individualistic societies as that…

most influential theories is the Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture framework, developed in 1980 by the Dutch social psychologist Greet Hofstede. His theory describes the “effects of a society’s culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behaviour using a structure derived from factor analysis”. In simpler words, Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. His model acknowledges…

The film Osama directed by Siddiq Barmak delivers insider perspective of the challenges a woman living in Afghanistan experiences on a daily basis. Osama was entirely filmed in Afghanistan during the strict rule of the Taliban, where women are not allowed to work or be in public without a male escort. Many families are left without men to provide for the women because many of them died during the Afghan Wars, thus leaving families with only women to starve. Osama exposes an extremist culture…

The U.S. University Strategy to Ensure that International Students Succeed The majority of international student, who study abroad, encounter a variety of academic and personal issues when start learning a new culture and learning in a new culture. Today, more than ever U.S universities are attractive education environment for international students. Although, they still face frequent challenges to adjusting to university life. In (International Students: Challenges of Adjustment to…

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…

America and Korea: Cultural Difference Based on the Six Dimensions of Culture Leadership is unique to all organizations. In Geert Hofstede’s research he studies different nations and how their cultures affect their work place. It is an interesting concept to see how different countries relate to the employment environment. Hofstede himself describes culture as “the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.” I have been to Korea…