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How Nationality Affects What We Think Good Leaders Look Like

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Dutch social scientist Geert Hofstede famously developed the Power Dimension Index, which compares a number of characteristics that allows us to compare different cultures. Hofstede argued that these cultural differences can explain around half of the differences observed in how we react to various situations as managers.

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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

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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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Have Democracies Been Less Effective At Tackling COVID-19?

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The researchers used Geert Hofstede’s invididualist-collectivist spectrum alongside data from the World Value Survey to gauge the response of countries to policy directives. Good examples are South Korean, Taiwan and New Zealand, which are flourishing democracies.” ” Cultural importance.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

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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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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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The Need To Get Better At Supporting International Workers

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“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.