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Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................11. Evaluation of suggestion of the Hofstede's cultural dimensions.............................................12. Justification in terms of agree and disagree............................................................................23. Suggestion ..............................................................................................................................2CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTIONOrganisation culture is defined as the various aspects such as value, beliefs, assumptionand way of interacting which contribute the to the unique social and healthy environment in theorganisation(Anitha, 2016). This essay defined the Hofstede cultural dimension which includesvarious determinants such as low power distance, individualism, masculinity, low uncertaintyavoidance and short term orientation. This all the factors plays an important role in theorganisation which operates their business at global level or provides goods and services invarious cultural area of world. Organisational values are selected by the leaders to make sure thatevery one understand for what organisation stand which includes the ethical behaviour and socialresponsibility. This essay present the evaluation of various suggestions which are given in theartificial on the Hofstede's cultural dimensions.MAIN BODY1. Evaluation of suggestion of the Hofstede's cultural dimensionsOrganizational culture includes various determinants such as values, symbols, value,belief and thought process which affect the business organization at very large extent. Accordingto the hofstede's model which involves four cultural dimensions such as individualism, powerdistance, uncertainty, avoidance and masculinity, all of these dimension affect the businessenvironment(Elsmore, 2017). The individualism culture dimension place high value on theindividual achievement which plays an important role in every industrial establishment becauseit increases the productivity of the firm through encouraging employee but it also decreases themotivational level of the person who not reach that level of performance. In the businessorganization the collectivist cultural value put employees to working towards the collective goaland group goals which results in the effective achievement of the organizational goal butsometimes it also results in decreasing the moral of the employees because the individualcontribution not affect the business objective and employees not recognized for their individualcontributions. It also includes power distance dimensions which differentiate the superior andsubordinates, in this business firms adopted forms of management such as participate inmanagement which place the superior and subordinates on more equal terms(Ugrin, Pearson andNickle, 2018). Uncertainty avoidance are given by the society on terms of respond against theambiguity in culture, through these organizations tend to avoid risk taking activities but some1
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