Cultural Comparisons between Australia and the United Kingdom

Running head: Cultural comparison
Cultural comparison

Cultural comparison
Cultural Comparisons between the two countries Australia and the United Kingdom
The cultural comparison between the two countries can be described by considering the Hofstede
model.
(Source: Hofstedeinsights , 2019).
One of the dimensions is power distance, in which it has been observed that Australia scores
high (36) But on the other hand, the PDI score of UK is (35) which states that there is not much
difference between both the cultures. Both the culture can have the communication style is
informal, direct and also participative (Hofstedeinsights , 2019).
The next dimension is individualism the score of Australia is (90) and score of United Kingdom
is (89). It can be said that there is a slight difference between the culture of Australia and United
Kingdom in terms of interpersonal connection and also the people in the workplace are loyal to
the group (Hofstedeinsights , 2019).
Masculinity is the dimension in which the score of Australia is (61) and United Kingdom (66). In
terms of work culture, in Australia the people focuses on giving priority to the quality of life but
on the other hand in United Kingdom there are tough values such as cooperation, modesty and
quality of life that is important to be followed in the work place(Kim, 2017).
Uncertainty avoidance is the other dimension in which the score of Australia is (51) and of
United Kingdom (35). The score of United Kingdom is low which defines that the employees are
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