enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural...

    For example, a Japanese person can be very comfortable in changing situations whereas on average, Japanese people have high uncertainty avoidance. There are still exceptions to the rule. Hofstede's theory can be contrasted with its equivalence at individual level: the trait theory about human personality.

  3. Uncertainty avoidance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_avoidance

    In cross-cultural psychology, uncertainty avoidance is how cultures differ on the amount of tolerance they have of unpredictability. [1] Uncertainty avoidance is one of five key qualities or dimensions measured by the researchers who developed the Hofstede model of cultural dimensions to quantify cultural differences across international lines and better understand why some ideas and business ...

  4. Cross-cultural leadership - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_leadership

    They labeled this the Culturally Endorsed Implicit Leadership Theory (CLT). [3] The GLOBE study came up with the nine dimensions of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, collectivism I: societal collectivism, collectivism II: in-group collectivism, gender egalitarianism , assertiveness, future orientation , performance orientation and humane ...

  5. Global leadership - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_leadership

    Global leadership is the interdisciplinary study of the key elements that future leaders in all realms of the personal experience should acquire to effectively familiarize themselves with the psychological, physiological, geographical, geopolitical, anthropological and sociological effects of globalization.

  6. Power distance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance

    Hofstede's theory identified six dimensions of culture: power distance, individualism vs collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs femininity, short-term vs long-term orientation, and indulgence vs self-restraint.

  7. Geert Hofstede - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede

    Hofstede was a researcher in the fields of organizational studies and more concretely organizational culture, also cultural economics and management. [5] He was a well-known pioneer in his research of cross-cultural groups and organizations and played a major role in developing a systematic framework for assessing and differentiating national cultures and organizational cultures.

  8. Japanese management culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_management_culture

    Tony Kippenberger (2002) elaborates on the leadership values that are deeply rooted in the Japanese business culture. These values were created by the late Konosuke Matsushita, the prominent entrepreneur of Matsushita's Electric Company, who cared deeply for the employees of his company as if they were family.

  9. Organizational culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

    Uncertainty avoidance is a way of coping with uncertainty. Society copes using technology , law and religion /ritual, along either a rational (technology, law) or non-rational (religion/ritual). Hofstede cited rituals including memos and reports, some parts of accounting systems, parts of planning and control systems, and the invocation of experts.