Cultural Dimensions and Managing Organizational Culture

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Milestone 2
-Cultural Dimensions
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Cultural Dimensions:
1. Hofstede dimensions and Dominican Republic:
According to Hofstede Insights, the Dominican Republic scores 65 on Power Distance,
(which shows it is a hierarchical society); 30 on Individualism (which shows it is a
collectivistic society); 65 on Masculinity-Feminity (which shows the society has masculine
characteristics in the behavior of people); 45 on Uncertainty-Avoidance (which shows the
society is fairly pragmatic in terms of avoidance of uncertainties), 13 on Long Term
Orientation (which means the country has a normative culture) and 54 on Indulgence (which
means the society is fairly indulgent) (hofstede-insights.com, 2018; Bakir et al., 2015).
2. Trompennars and Dominican Republic:
The Onion Model of Trompenaar’s can be used to explain the culture of Dominican
Republic in three layers:
The Outer Layer: This layer consists of the food, clothing, and visual reality of behavior and
language of Dominican people and shows the explicit aspects of the culture.
The Middle Layer: This layers consists of the social norms and values of the Dominican
people and what they consider as right or wrong.
The Core: This consists of implicit aspects of the culture such as basic assumptions and social
rules.
(Brucker, 2015; Young et al., 2017)
3. GLOBE and implications for management:
GLOBE project is a comprehensive study of culture and leadership across 62 societies
which helps to understand how specific traits of the culture and how it can affect the

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leadership. From the study, six leadership styles have been identified such as performance
oriented, team oriented, participative, humane, autonomous and self protective. The project
also helped to identify nine cultural dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance,
institutional collectivism, in group collectivism, assertiveness, gender egalitarianism, future
orientation and performance orientation (Binder, 2016; Beugelsdijk et al., 2015).
Managing Across Cultures:
1. Cross cultural differences and similarities between Dominican Republic and United
States
Similarities and differences between the cultures of Dominican Republic and United
States could be compared using the Hofstede scores. Discussed below is the comparison:
Power Distance: Dominican republic (score 65) has a more hierarchical society compared to
United States (score 40) which has more equality among people.
Individualism: Dominican Republic (score 30) is a collectivist society compared to United
States (score 91) which has a highly individualistic society.
Masculinity: Both Dominican Republic (score 65) and United States (62) has a very
masculine society where they want the best of what is available.
Uncertainty Avoidance: Both Dominican Republic (score 45) and United States (score 46) are
very pragmatic cultures in terms of uncertainty avoidance.
Long Term Orientation: Both Dominican Republic (score 13) as well as United States (score
26) has a normative culture and are prone to analyze any new information to check if it’s true
or false.