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Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Assignment

   

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ANALYSING ANDINTERPRETINGINFORMATION
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3Overview................................................................................................................................3Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions............................................................................................3Different dimensions of Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions.....................................................3Importance of Hofstede's cultural..........................................................................................4CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................4REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTIONAnalysing an information has always been important in order to interpret data.Interpretation of data can be done by statistical analysis, graphing etc. There are various typesof techniques that can be used to analyse an interpret information (Beugelsdijk, Maseland andVan Hoorn, 2015). In this assessment Hofstede’s cultural dimensions on internationalbusiness has been discussed.MAIN BODYOverviewIt is important to understand to understand culture in international business as it helpsthe organization’s in doing business globally. Things that work in one country might notwork in another country. So, it’s important to raise awareness in an organization regarding allthe cultural issues within a business in order to ensure effectiveness.Hofstede’s Cultural DimensionsIt is a framework which revolves around cross cultural communication. In simplewords it collectively portray the impact of culture ingrained in the society which impacts thevalues of all the members of the society. This theory was developed by Greet Hofstede. Thistheory describes a society’s cultural effect on values of its members and ways its values relateto the behaviour using structure derived from factor analysis (Dartey-Baah, 2013). Thistheory says that cultural differences act as a barrier in communication. It can work as anhinderance for an organization and their ability to build connections with other organization’sand motivate their employees. According to this theory there are six dimensions of culturewhich helps in working effectively with variety of people from different culture andgeographical background. Different dimensions of Hofstede’s Cultural DimensionsThese six dimensions of Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions, which are: Power distance Index (high verses low)Individualism versus CollectivismMasculinity versus FemininityUncertainty Avoidance Index (High versus low)Long versus Short term orientationIndulgence versus restraintWhen Hofstede analysed all the dimensions, he found a similar pattern of similarities anddifferences in these dimensions. He attributed those patterns according to national differencesand with the help of these he successfully minimized the impact of company’s culture.Power Distance Index: This dimension explains the extent till which all the less powerfulpeople in the society are accepted as well as expect that power distribution take placeunequally. In other words, it can be said that this dimension indicates the degree of inequalitythat exist in the world which is accepted by or between the people with both with or withoutthe power (García-Sánchez, Rodríguez-Ariza and Frías-Aceituno, 2013). If this PDI score ishigh then that means society accepts the unequal hierarchical distribution of the power aswell as it also indicates that people understand their place in the system. If the PDI score islow then that means power distribution within the society or organization is distributed
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