cultural dimensions. There are five main dimensions of culture that serve as a guide to understanding intercultural communications‚ business‚ and effective social exchange. The five dimensions are Power Distance‚ Individualism‚ Masculinity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and Long-Term Orientation and were developed to provide a method to strategizing cultural interactions. Power Distance PD- Power Distance is the first of Geert Hofstede’s Five Cultural Dimensions. Power Distance refers to the extent in which
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research team identified nine cultural dimensions that distinguish one society from another and have important managerial implications: assertiveness‚ future orientation‚ performance orientation‚ human orientation‚ gender differentiation‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ power distance‚ collectivism/societal‚ and in-group collectivism. Assertiveness This aspect is defined as the degree to which individuals in organisations or societies are expected to be tough‚ confrontational and competitive versus
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as Colombia and China; each individual needs to understand the other culture in order to facilitate effective and respectful communication. As Geert Hofstede (2001) explained‚ culture is comprised of power distance‚ individualism‚ masculinity‚ uncertainty
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also helpful to manage their foreigner employees. To clearly classify the difference between China and American‚ Hofstede’ four cultural dimensions will be used including Power Distance‚ Individualism/Collectivism‚ Masculinity/Femininity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance and Long Term Orientation. Five cultural dimensions of Hofstede are used to measure the
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explores how Greeks and American handle the cultural conflicts‚ and how they integrate into each other’s culture. Therefore‚ we will arrange the paper in three dimensions of Hofstede’s theory: individualism vs. collectivism‚ power distance and uncertainty avoidance. 1. Individualism vs Collectivism The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding reveals the sharp contrast between American individualism and Greek collectivism. From Hofstede’s research into culture differences among 50 countries and 3 regions‚ the
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degree of power distance accept a hierarchical order‚ and have top down decision making. In cultures with low power distance‚ individuals make every effort to equalise the spreading of power and demand justification for inequalities of power. Uncertainty
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anthropological problem areas that different national societies handle differently: ways of coping with inequality‚ ways of coping with uncertainty‚ the relationship of the individual with her or his primary group‚ and the emotional implications of having been born as a girl or as a boy. These became the Hofstede dimensions of national culture: Power Distance‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ Individualism versus Collectivism‚ and Masculinity versus Femininity.
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standards. Different nations have entirely separate sets of values so some countries might be offended that they have to change their standards to comply with the harmonization rules. Gray hypothesizes that the higher a country ranks on uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation‚ and the lower it ranks in terms of individualism and masculinity‚ then the more likely it is to ranks in terms of conservatism. This brings up the point that some countries are more conservative than others due
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Culture‚ in my own opinion‚ is a unique system of values and norms that are believed by a group of people who live in the same society. Since culture is unique‚ Geert Hofstede tried to study the differences. After the study‚ he proposed five dimensions to measure the cultural difference between nations. The following parts will explain Hofstede Framework briefly. The first dimension is Power Distance. It is a tool to measure the power difference between levels in organization. In a group with high
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2.3- Masculinity vs. Femininity 2.4- Uncertainty avoidance 2.5- Long vs. short term 3. Conclusion 4. List of references 1-Introduction Nowadays‚ depending in which part of society you belong to‚ you will accept more one or another type of way to communicate. Hofstade has separated intercultural communication in five different types of dimensions: power distance‚ individualism-collectivism‚ masculinity vs. femininity‚ uncertainty avoidance and long term-short term. Each and every
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