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Cultural theories generally adopt a definition of national culture inspired by the everyday language: culture is the way of life ...
Cultural differences Cultural differences are significant differences which have been identified across countries based on obser ...
2 HOFSTEDE Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences(1980, 2001) explores the differences ‘in thinking and social action’ at the c ...
TABLE 6.1 a high Uncertainty Avoidance is expressed for example, by a company’s need for regulations which endeavour to minimize ...
preferred to be managed as individuals with acknowledgement of their individual achievements. In contrast, respondents who chose ...
in many societies. Consequently, Hofstede labels this dimension Masculinity versus Femininity. This dimension expresses values s ...
unique to the CCC study: the construct of Confucian Dynamism. Hofstede’s interpretation of the two poles of this dimension is th ...
action. He argues that this mental programming is at the source of differences in management practices across countries. Hofsted ...
150 International Human Resource Management nations). A third one is the obsolescence of the data (collected between 1967 and 19 ...
Trompenaars’ cultural dimensions Five of Trompenaars’ dimensions are an adaptation of the work of Parsons and Shils (1951). The ...
mean that colleagues will get to know each other’s family. The authority derived from an individual’s position within an organiz ...
Culture in Management 153 TABLE 6.4 Sample items from Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner’s measurement of Universalism versus Partic ...
example the tendency for simultaneous management of multiple projects as opposed to focus on one project for a given period). Th ...
Trompenaars considers that cultures are made of shared meanings which influence management practices. Trompenaars and Hofstede h ...
Annika faces divergent cultural meanings In a Swedish organization, Annika, one of the managers of the international trainee pro ...
Maznevski (1988–2000). Table 6.6 displays the adapted value orientations. Maznevski and DiStefano (1995) developed a questionnai ...
158 International Human Resource Management Sample items from Maznevski and DiStefano’s measurement of Value Orientations Activi ...
The variations of Relationship are individualism, collectivism and hierarchy. The core of this variation is the feeling of respo ...
might be seen in corporate strategic plans, built either on what has been achieved, what is needed now, or future long-term obje ...
For example, in the USA, respondents’ preferred mode of activity is ‘doing’ on the same level as ‘thinking’, and ‘being’ comes t ...
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