Geert Hofstede

India. Through these short stories, the reader learns a tremendous amount about India’s cultural aspects and how these aspects define India as a country. By utilizing Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions framework, one can better understand what exactly creates India’s culture and how it is different from other countries. Hofstede separates these dimensions into numerous categories, Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long Term Orientation and Indulgence.…

An organization’s culture can hinder or help the organization in its efforts to achieve the entailed mission. Culture can be facilitated by the organization itself or outside influences such as the culture and behavior of the persons employed there. The latter was the case with regard to Korean Air pilots (captain, first officer, and flight engineer). Multiple factors crippled the airline agency and contributed to the continuance of airplane crashes, however the most significant was that of…

What is your opinion of the manner in which Anna Håkansson prepared for her business trip? Could she have done a better job here? If so, how? In my opinion, Anna’s preparation was a good jumping off point but was inadequate. While her comparison of Bahrain and Sweden using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (Steers, 2013) and her study of the structure of Arab extended families and the role this family structure plays in the decision-making process was a good start, she failed to study up on the…

As stated by Hofstede (2015), country with more individualistic score tend to care more about themselves than the society. Thus, Thailand, in comparison to UK, seems to be more concern about ethical issues. This is because when ones feel that they are a part of their community, there are high possibility that they will care more about their society, and desert their personal needs (Gupta & Ogden, 2009). However, with higher power distance, a degree to which the members tend to accept inequality…

1. Discuss the societal triangle that exists in the movie with regard to (a) culture and (b) social systems. The culture aspect exists in nearly the entire movie. A Japanese auto corporation wants to bring its work ethic and business strategies to the United States. This is in hopes of great success however the cultural differences to include the language barrier and tradition seem to prove difficult. Both countries display a level of ethnocentrism and ethical imperialism, believing that…

This way of thinking very much aligns with The Principles of Scientific Management (Taylor, 1914), as Taylor believed in money as the major incentive to work. All of these issues above also relate to Hofstede 's cultural dimensions (1989), more specifically the Power Distance aspect of his theory. The CEO has all the power in Healthco, this is shown through the lack of communication between the CEO, supervisors and clerks, and the management style adopted…

credit for others work (Daniels et al., 2015, p. 64; Hofstede Centre, n.d.a; Hofstede Centre, n.d.b). Furthermore, the low-income category of both countries results in employee perception of minimal reward for essential work (Daniels et al., 2015, p. 62; World Bank Group, 2016a; World Bank Group, 2016b). As such, employees anticipate a work environment of inequity, which results in an apathetic work ethic and inefficiencies in business processes (Hofstede Centre, n.d.a; Sharma & Christie, 2010,…

Indonesia is part of Southern Asia culture cluster which holds values in strong family connections and a deep concern for their communities. (West,2016) Provided is a picture that shows the overall cluster’s societal practices and values. “For the overall cluster’s societal practices are high on group collectivism (5.87), power distance (5.39), and humane orientation (4.72) and low on gender egalitarianism (3.28). The other cultural dimensions are rated in the mid-range, around an average of 4.…

Reflection on Visiting an Uncomfortable Place I used to feel uncomfortable in any place of worship other than mosques for two main reasons. First, I grew up in an Islamic country where building houses of worship other than mosques is not allowed for religious reasons. Second, I chose to go to a Sikh temple because in my community, there is a common stereotype that Sikhs do not get along with Muslims. Growing up with this idea, made me presume that there are barriers between us, so I can not get…

Table 2 shows that increasing performance decreases the probability of turnover, which is consistent with theory and literature. Bigger companies tend to have a higher probability of turnover. Higher power distance index is correlated with lower probability of turnover, meaning CEO is more secure and is being challenged less. Long Term Orientation leads to a lower probability of turnover. Having a long term orientation decreases as it gives CEO more time to improve her performance and makes…