Hofstede Cultural Dimensions Essay
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................11.Critically evaluate the suggestions made in the article on Hofestede's cultural dimensions...12.Which do you agree with and which do you disagree with? Justify your position..................23. Are there any other suggestions you would like to make.......................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTIONCulture is the social behaviour and norms found in human societies. It can be an evolvingset of collective beliefs, values and attitudes and a key component in business or has an impacton the strategic direction of business (Atiku, 2014). The article that is being analysed is based onHofstede cultural dimensions. This assignment will be evaluate the suggestions made in thearticle on Hofstede cultural dimensions. It will include the point agreed upon and also disagreedones. Further it include additional suggestions in relation to organisational culture. MAIN BODY1.Critically evaluate the suggestions made in the article on Hofestede's cultural dimensionsThe theory of Hofstede's cultural dimensions constitutes a framework revolving aroundcross culture communication which was developed by Greet Hofstede in 1980. There are fourcultural dimensions of this model such as Low power vs. high power distance, individualism vs.collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, Low vs. high uncertainty avoidance. These dimensionscan be use by the organisations for the better understanding of culture and people. Thisframework used to understand the differences in culture across countries and to discern the waysthat business is done across various cultures. In the article discussed about thatindividualism/collectivism dimensions of culture refers to self oriented members of a culture arein their behaviour. By using an example of US, in the article, it will be defined that individualismplace a high value on individual achievement. In US, individualism is good for the success forthe people and achieving organisational goals but over all analysis, it can be found out thatcollectivism principle is much useful rather than it. Because by adopting or using it, the wholegroup work for achieving a common goal and develop their skills and knowledge. In Context of uncertainty avoidance principle, according to the article, Great Britain tendto avoid risk taking. So there are high uncertainty avoidance and these culture have more rules inplace to ensure that employees do not deviate from accepted standards. But in Canada, cultureswith less uncertainty avoidance and the people believe in risk taking and innovation so that theycan achieve their successful outcomes (Maleki and de Jong, 2014). But most of the organisationsuse less uncertainty avoidance so that they can fulfil their consumers demands and achieve theirorganisational objectives and growth. Most of the organisations in US and France, such as KFC,Subway and McDonald's adopt different culture according to their management.. Some firms1
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