Report: Hofstede Culture Dimension Analysis and Suggestions

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Hofstede's cultural dimensions and their impact on organizational performance and business operations. The report begins with an introduction to cultural factors and their influence, followed by an evaluation of suggestions related to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, including power distance, risk avoidance, individualism, and masculinity. It justifies the agreement and disagreement with certain points, focusing on how cultural factors influence operations, policy-making, and stakeholder behavior. The report then offers suggestions for managing power distance and individualism to foster a positive work environment and improve coordination. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of evaluating growth measures and implementing suggested actions to achieve business goals effectively. The report references various books and journals to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluation on the suggestion made on Hofstede culture dimension...........................................1
Justify which points do you agree and disagree..........................................................................2
Provide suggestion in these situations........................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The cultural factors that are been faced by an organisation will impact the performance of
the organisation this will help in proper planning of the operations which will help in improving
the overall performance of the organisation in an effective way. The cultural dimension factors
that are been carried out within the organisation will influence the operations and
implementation of the business activities of enterprise in various countries in an effective way.
The assignment will cover the suggestions that are been made in regard to Hofstede cultural
dimension with the factors to be agree and disagree and making suitable suggestions accordingly.
MAIN BODY
Evaluation on the suggestion made on Hofstede culture dimension
The article laid a deep and significant focus upon the factors that will help in effective evaluation
of the cultural measures that will help in proper assessment of the cultural factors like Power
distance, risk avoidance, individualism and masculinity etc that impacts the performance of the
organisation in an significant manner (Mazanec and et. al., 2015). On the basis of the study of
article, this can be said that the cultures of a country or an enterprise will impact the execution of
its business and hence, they are essentially requires to be managed for having a high performance
of business operations. The ethical ideologies and values are required to be maintained in order
to have a clarity of operations and hence this will help in handling of the business operation
which is been covered by the firm.
The culture also influences the norms or policy making within the organisation and
impact the behaviour of stakeholders. This will help in suitable planning of the operations and
thus, helps in carrying out of the operations which will help in rise in efficiency of an
organisation. Factors like power distance, risk avoidance and masculinity will mould the overall
work place environment that will impact the performance and following of the operations of the
organisation. This will help the organisation or an individual in proper planning of the
behavioural and cultural approaches which will help min maintain the sustainability within
organisation (Bakir and et. al., 2015). The application of Hofstede cultural dimension will help in
handling of the operations which will help in carrying out of the operations. For an organisation
operating in a foreign market, identification of the market culture and drafting out the strategies
accordingly will be the major objective to achieve in order to have effective business growth.
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Justify which points do you agree and disagree
The Hofestede culture dimension model will impact the operations of an enterprise that will lead
to rise in the carrying out of the analysis that will lead to the rise in meeting the operational
requirements of an organisation. As per the model, the culture factors change from one country
or company to another. However there are certain factors within the enterprise that will impact
the overall performance of the organisation and meeting the operational requirements of the
organisation in an effective way. There are certain factors which can be disagreed and agreed
upon in order to carry out the planning operations within the firm in an effective way
(Beugelsdijk, Kostova and Roth, 2017).
The factors like uncertainty avoidance and masculinity can be agreed to be followed within the
organisation that will help in controlling the operations and other factors which will help in
carrying out of the operations in an effective way. It can be said that these cultural factors will
impact the operations and planning of the operations which will help in meeting the needs and
thus, will help in managing the operations accordingly. Masculinity will support in making
suitable policies and will improve the operations and effectiveness of the business operations that
are been carried out by the firm.
On the other hand, Power distance and individualism are the cultural factors which can be
avoided or disagreed upon in order to disdain the negative impact on the operations which are
been carried out at the organisation (Tekeş and et.al., 2018). This may cause the conflicts and
indifferences at the work place and thus, might influence the business operations of the
organisation. Thus in order to avoid any sort of negative influence on the operations of the
organisation, this can be said that power distance of gap on the executive level and ideology of
extreme individualism must be prevented. Besides this, it will also help in carrying out of
operations of a company regardless to country it operates.
Provide suggestion in these situations
In case of the power distance and individualism will create a self centric and autocratic
work environment within an organisation. It is required to be looked after the proper assessment
of the operations. Hence, there are few suggestions which will be carried out within the
organisation in order to carry out the operations:
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Suitable management of power distance or communication gap should be carried out. It
will help in developing positive understanding and thus will lead the firm to improve the overall
performance of a business enterprise.
In case of individualism, the extent of individualism is required to be managed in order to carry
out the business operations with suitable coordination and effectiveness (Favaretto and et.al.,
2016
). These measures are also important that will help in carrying out of the services and
improving the performance level of the organisation. This will lead to rise in carrying out of the
operations and thus will help in proper planning of business strategies.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of the operations that is been carried out at the organisation, this can be said that the
proper evaluation of the growth measures is required to be followed in order to have a good level
of cultural planning and setting up of strategies which will help in achieving the business goals
and objectives in an effective and significant manner. Besides this, the implementation of the
suggested measurers will assist in improving the performance of the organisation. This will help
in carrying out the operations in the most effective and significant manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bakir, A. And et. al., 2015. A preliminary investigation of the reliability and validity of
Hofstede’s cross cultural dimensions. In Proceedings of the 2000 Academy of Marketing
Science (AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 226-232). Springer, Cham.
Beugelsdijk, S., Kostova, T. and Roth, K., 2017. An overview of Hofstede-inspired country-level
culture research in international business since 2006. Journal of International Business
Studies. 48(1). pp.30-47.
Favaretto, R.M. and et.al., 2016, September. Using group behaviors to detect hofstede cultural
dimensions. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp.
2936-2940). IEEE.
Mazanec, J.A and et. al., 2015. Homogeneity versus heterogeneity of cultural values: An item-
response theoretical approach applying Hofstede's cultural dimensions in a single
nation. Tourism Management. 48. pp.299-304.
Tekeş, B. and et.al., 2018. The Relationship Between Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions,
Schwartz’s Cultural Values, and Obesity. Psychological reports. pp.0033294118777965.
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