Culture′s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations

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SAGE Publications, 2001 M04 20 - 616 pages

"An important, sophisticated and complex monograph . . . Both the theoretical analysis and the empirical findings constitute major contributions to cross-cultural value analysis and the cross-cultural study of work motivations and organizational dynamics. This book is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in a historical or anthropological approach to cross-cultural comparisons."
--PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY

--PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY

The Second Edition of this classic work, first published in 1981 and an international best seller, explores the differences in thinking and social action that exist among members of more than 50 modern nations. Geert Hofstede argues that people carry "mental programs" which are developed in the family in early childhood and reinforced in schools and organizations, and that these programs contain components of national culture. They are expressed most clearly in the different values that predominate among people from different countries.

Geert Hofstede has completely rewritten, revised and updated Culture′s Consequences for the twenty-first century, he has broadened the book′s cross-disciplinary appeal, expanded the coverage of countries examined from 40 to more than 50, reformulated his arguments and a large amount of new literature has been included. The book is structured around five major dimensions: power distance; uncertainty avoidance; individualism versus collectivism; masculinity versus femininity; and long term versus short-term orientation.

 

Contents

From the Preface to the First Edition 1980
Values and Culture
Studying Culture
Dimensions of Culture
Data Collection Treatment and Validation
Validation
Inequality and Power Distance
Measuring National Differences in Power Distance in
or Two Dimensions
Origins and Implications of Country Individualism Differences
Statistical Analysis of Data Used in This Chapter
Notes
Masculinity and Femininity
Validating MAS Against Data From Other Sources
Notes
LongVersus ShortTerm Orientation

Validating PDI Against Data From Other Sources
Origins and Implications of Country Power Distance Differences
Uncertainty Avoidance
Power Distance
Statistical Analysis of Data Used in This Chapter
Notes
Origins and Implications of Country Uncertainty Avoidance Differences
Statistical Analysis of Data Used in This Chapter
Notes
Individualism and Collectivism
Cultures in Organizations
Intercultural Encounters
Using Culture Dimension Scores in Theory and Research
Appendixes
Appendix 2
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
References
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About the author (2001)

Geert Hofstede received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University at Delft and a doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Groningen, both in his native Netherlands. His professional career includes experience as a worker, foreman, plant manager, chief psychologist on the international staff of a multinational corporation, academic researcher, director of human resources of another multinational, and university professor. He has been affiliated with IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (Brussels, Belguim), IIASA (Laxenburg Castle, Austria), and the University of Hong Kong. He is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation (of which he was a founder) and of the Center for Economic Research, both at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has lectured at universities and consulted for institutions and companies around the world. Dr. Hofstede’s books have appeared in seventeen languages, and his articles have been published in social science journals around the world. He is among the top 100 most cited authors in the Social Science Citation Index.

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