Exploring Uncertainty Avoidance as an Ethical Issue: Societal Stress

This essay examines uncertainty avoidance as a cross-cultural phenomenon and its ethical implications, specifically concerning stress levels in society related to an uncertain future. It defines uncertainty avoidance and explores its weak and strong aspects, highlighting how different societies cope with future anxieties. The essay references Hofstede's model and research data, including examples from the UK, to illustrate the impact of uncertainty avoidance on stress levels. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing this ethical issue to mitigate societal stress related to the unknown.

Assessment 1 — Essay on
ethical Issue [Uncertainty
Avoidance, related to the level
of stress in a society in the
face of an unknown future]

ESSAY
Uncertainty avoidance is the cross- cultural phenomenon which helps in describing
different cultures and societies to react and tolerate the uncertainties which has been addressed.
Therefore, the essay will introduce the ethical issue which is related to stress level in the society
for the unknown future.
According to Al-Okaily, Lutfi and et.al., (2020), Uncertainty avoidance is defined as the
analysis to which organization, society or group believes procedures, social norms and rules to
remove future events unpredictability. There are some high and low uncertainty avoidance
aspects which helps in addressing the points which are in consideration to society at large scale.
The uncertainty avoidance is concerned about the stress level for the future. This helps in
knowing the aspects of uncertainty avoidance which is an ethical issue within the society.
Unstructured situations are not known and creates the unusualness in the society. There
are strict behavioural codes, disapproval of opinions and belief in absolute truth which addresses
the aspects of how the uncertainty can be avoided (Caputo, Ayoko and et.al., 2018). The
unstructured situations which are denoted in the society helps in addressing the issue of
uncertainty avoidance at which informs about all the rich programs to its members who may feel
comfortable and uncomfortable in certain situations.
As per Jang, Shen and et.al., (2018), There are two aspects which is weak and strong
uncertainty avoidance. This helps in addressing the aspects as to how the society is feeling the
stress for unknown future. The weak uncertainty avoidance helps in addressing the key points
which are — tolerance of ideas as to what is curious and different, disliking of rules which are
written or unwritten, health and well-being achieving higher scores, in religion, philosophy and
science — empiricism and relativism, Uncertainty in life is accepted each day and believed as it
is coming. The uncertainty avoidance is strong which includes — performing jobs even if
dissatisfied, need of rules for emotions when they are not obeyed, in religion — science and
philosophy which is the belief in grand theories and the truth which are final, health and well-
being low scores achieved, higher stress, emotionality and anxiety, there is uncertainty in life
which must be fought and this creates serious threat.
Uncertainty avoidance is being addressed as how effectively and in appropriate manner
the major concerns are being known which is stress for unknown future in the society. This

helps in knowing that people living within the society are scared of future and the uncertainty
which might happen in the near future.
On the contrary, people who are feeling the uncertainty for future are being analysed
through the research which was conducted and this depicted that people in uncertainty avoiding
countries are motivated by the inner energies and are emotional. Uncertainty accepting cultures
helps in addressing that the stressing out their uncertainties which they are facing for the
uncertain future. This ethical issues is affecting the society at large scale.
As per Bozer and Delegach, (2019), there are certain characteristics which helps in
addressing as to how effectively the level of stress in the society is being solved for the uncertain
future. The society relates to the stress for the future which describes that the people living
within the society are facing many difficulties and aspects as to how effectively and in
appropriate manner the weak and strong uncertainty avoidance measures are noted down. The
communities and cultures cope with the uncertainties which the people are facing at large scale.
There are many aspects which address the uncertainties which might happen and this continues
to solve this ethical issue which is known ant large scale. The level of stress is increasing day by
day within the society and this creates the measures as to how effectively the people are
concerned about the future at large scale.
As denoted by Seo, Kim and et.al., (2018), the uncertainty avoidance helps in coping up
with the levels of stress which has been contained in the society and this helps in knowing the
aspects as to how the stress is being addressed at large scale. The uncertainty avoidance denotes
that people are trying to make the life predictable and controllable and these addresses the
aspects of people living under stress either over stressed or under stressed. If the people are
stressed and if they find that they are unable to control their lives, they may be tempted to stop
trying. There are certain societies which helps in addressing that how the levels of stress is
maintained by the society for the unpredictable future.
As per Hofstede's Model, there are people who belong to higher stress cultures which are
being denoted in the manner as to how they are managing their stress levels. The two countries
which are being facing the stress of uncertainty for future are being analysed as how effectively
the stress levels have been increasing and decreasing (De Meulenaer and et.al., 2018). 71% of
the individuals are facing the stress which has impacted the people living in the society and this
has been addressed as how effectively and in appropriate manner the increase in the levels of

stress regarding the future which is unpredictable and is uncertain is known and evaluated.
However, in UK, there are large number of people who are facing the levels of stress due to the
uncertainty in the near future and these addresses the reasons due to which the people are under
stress.
It has been analysed and evaluated with the help of research that the current position of
how UK is solving this ethical issue which is stress level in the society for unknown future.
Therefore, this is the ethical issue is being analysed and evaluated in appropriate manner
(Gholipour, 2019).
Thus, the ethical issue which was Uncertainty Avoidance which is similar to the stress
levels for the future which is unknown while living in the society was described and evaluated
with the details providing the aspects of how the society is facing is this issue. The weak and
strong uncertainties were also described.

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