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    HOFSTEDE’S CULTURAL

    DIMENSIONS
    Week # 8 Lecture
    The Hofstede Dimensions in a
    Nutshell
    HOFSTEDE’S
    SIX CULTURAL
    DIMENSIONS
    WHAT IS CULTURE?
    • "Culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes
    the members of one group or category of people from others".
    HIGH CONTEXT vs.
    LOW CONTEXT
    CULTURES

    • U.S. anthropologist Edward T. Hall (1976)


    divided cultures according to their ways
    of communicating, into high-context
    (much of the information is implicit) and
    low-context cultures (nearly everything
    is explicit). In practice this distinction
    overlaps largely with the traditional
    versus modern distinction.
    CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
    MEASUREMENT
    • Sample Questions:
    • How often in your experience are subordinates afraid to contradict their boss( or
    students their teacher?)
    1- never, 2- seldom, 3- sometimes, 4-usually, 5- always
    • How important it is to you to have a boss ( direct supervisor) you can respect?
    1- not important at all- 2- somewhat important, 3- moderately important, 4- very
    important, 5- of utmost importance
    • How important it is to you to keep time free for fun?
    1 -not important at all- 2- somewhat important, 3- moderately important, 4- very
    important, 5- of utmost importance
    INDIVIDUALI • INDIVIDUALIST CULTURE • COLECTIVIST CULTURE
    • The interest of the individual • The interest of the group
    SM VS. prevails over the interests of prevails over the interest
    COLLECTIVI the group; of the individual
    • Ties between individuals are • People are integrated into
    SM loose strong, cohesive in-groups
    • People look after themselves protecting in exchange for
    and their immediate unquestioning loyalty;
    families • Who a person is
    • What a person does defines connected with defines
    the person. that person;

    • Direct communication style • Indirect communication


    style
    • Agrarian Society
    • Natural disasters

    HISTORICAL ROOTS
    INDIVIDUALISM VS.
    COLLECTIVISM
    • Early industrialization
    • Protestantism
    • Enlightenment
    Table 1
    Ten Differences Between Small- and Large- Power
    Distance Societies

    Small Power Distance Large Power Distance


    • Power is a basic fact of society antedating good or
    Use of power
    should be Older people evil: its legitimacy is irrelevant
    Parents treat Student-
    legitimate and are neither
    is subject to
    children as
    respected nor
    centered • Parents teach children obedience
    equals education
    criteria of good feared
    and evil
    • Older people are both respected and feared
    Hierarchy
    means
    Subordinates
    Pluralist • Teacher-centered education
    inequality of governments and changed
    expect to be • Hierarchy means existential inequality
    roles, based on peacefully
    consulted
    established for majority vote
    convenience • Subordinates expect to be told what to do
    Corruption Income Religions • Autocratic governments based on co-optation and
    rare; scandals distribution in stressing
    end political society rather equality of changed by revolution
    careers even believers
    • Corruption frequent; scandals are covered up
    • Income distribution in society very uneven
    • Religions with a hierarchy of priests

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