HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

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.

Self-aware 52

Self-aware Hofstede Mentor Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

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?

Power 20

Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Cross-cultural analysts like Geert Hofstede have said that the biggest difference between the Nordics and other countries are their highly 'feminine' vs 'masculine' values. The Nordic executive team (mostly men) I worked with this week were fascinated by the Hofstede research. Pragmatic indeed.

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Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Geert Hofstede, in Cultures and Organizations , discusses five dimensions of national culture. Hofstede also points out that cultures vary in their acceptances of differences in power. One of them is whether a culture is more individualistic or collectivistic. Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.

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Hofstede Objective Retail Resistance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

To measure the short-term orientation of a country, we gathered information on the cultural dimensions of the sample countries using information from Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture.

Short-term 13

Short-term Company Hofstede Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Hofstede Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

In particular, we looked at how different countries compared on 16 cultural values developed by psychologists Geert Hofstede and Shalom Schwartz, the GLOBE Project , and the World Values Survey. We tried to answer this by identifying the cultural values that prevailed in these ancestral countries.

Banking 13

Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Geert Hofstede, the author of the pioneering book Culture’s Consequences , makes that point when he talks about how his Dutch modesty failed to win him the job he wanted with an American firm.)

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Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

For example, the Dutch social psychologist, Geert Hofstede outlined a number of dimensions that highlight ways that cultures differ. This information was valuable when having conversations with people so I didn’t assume people were disagreeing with me when in fact they were agreeing.

Globalization 8

Globalization Team Hofstede Meyer 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 13, 2013

In the 1970’s the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede developed a way of looking at cultural differences. The Colombians had simply been unable to explain exactly how dire their predicament was. How could trained professionals miscommunicate so badly? He produced a set of dimensions to explain how cultures vary from one another.

Skills 263

Skills Hofstede Leadership Charisma 263