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Hofstede Culture Dimensions

Leadership and Change

I’ve introduced Geert Hofstede a couple of posts ago, so I’ll share a bit more about his work as an “in-between post” in my Personal Positive Power blog series. The post Hofstede Culture Dimensions appeared first on Leadership & Change Magazine. He researched national cultures and I admire his work.

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Why People Stay Quiet At Work

The Horizons Tracker

There are parallels here with Geert Hofstede’s work on power distance, with countries with a high power distance more likely to have such hierarchical barriers to speaking up as they support and accept strict status differences.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

It brings to mind the groundbreaking work of Dutch sociologist Geert Hofstede. His work analyzing the values within and across nations identified striking similarities between residents of large cities across nations, such that Londoners and Parisians have more in common than Londoners do with residents of Rochdale.

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The Need To Get Better At Supporting International Workers

The Horizons Tracker

“Using Hofstede’s classification, countries can be categorized as individualistic vs. collectivistic, short-term oriented vs. long-term oriented, etc. In the analyzed articles, individual factors were the most researched (155), followed by organizational (95) and country-related (78) factors.

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Are you aware of culture?

Leadership and Change

Geert Hofstede, the Dutch culture researcher and one of my true gurus (I love his work) says: Culture reproduces itself. Lately, I discussed communication in my Personal Positive Power series to make a positive difference. But are you aware of how your communication is influenced by the culture you’re part of?

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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

The second is to dial up their listening behaviors: by listening directly to the people you work with; and indirectly by reading as much as you can—try a simple Google (“Business Customs in X country”) or learn from cross-cultural experts like Geert Hofstede or Miriam Spering.

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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure. What makes it particularly relevant in Asia?

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