National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions

In his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6 cultural dimensions.

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The Nature of Organizations
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This video is part of course module number 6.1.4
Program 6: Managing within Organizations
Course 1: The Nature of Organizations
Section 4: Organizational Culture


Other videos in this section include:
🎬 Introduction to Organizational Culture    • Introduction to Organizational Culture  
🎬 Cultural Web: Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates    • What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & S...  
🎬 Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture    • Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values M...  
🎬 Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture    • Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizati...  
🎬 How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions    • How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross...  


LESSON NOTES
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In the 1970s, Hofstede studied people working for IBM in more than 50 countries. Initially, he identified four dimensions that could distinguish one national culture from another. Later, he added 5th and 6th dimensions, in cooperation with Dr Michael Bond and Dr Michael Minkov. These are:

Power Distance Index
The degree to which people are likely to accept external hierarchical authority (high index) or to question whether it is fair and legitimate.

Individualism versus Collectivism
A social orientation where people prioritize the rights and interests of either themselves or the group.

Masculinity versus Femininity
About goal orientation, between a high degree of assertiveness towards achieving material success or quality or life, welfare, and social relevance. I think now, a term like assertive vs passive goal orientation would be better.

Uncertainty Avoidance Index
The extent to which a society will tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity (low index) or prefers structure and routine (high index).

Long- versus Short-Term Orientation
A time orientation towards either a long-term view or narrow focus on values, traditions, and social norms.

Indulgence versus Restraint
How much a society allows individual freedoms, or expects people to control their personal desires in favor of strict societal norms.

National cultural preferences manifest within organizations. To the extent that different national cultures exist within a single large organization, it can lead to challenges in creating and maintaining a strong organizational culture – which may be rooted in one particular HQ country and therefore clash with national cultural preferences in some of its subsidiary locations.

Do take a look at our series of videos on cross-cultural teams
🎬 Introduction to Cross-Cultural Teams    • Introduction to Cross-Cultural Teams  
🎬 Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness    • Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness: ...  
🎬 Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Differences    • Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Differen...  
🎬 Tips for Cross-Cultural Working    • Tips for Cross-Cultural Working: 10 +...  


RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. Assess each of the national cultures you have a STRONG understanding of, along Hofstede's 6 cultural dimensions (6 MC CPD Points per culture)
2. Look around your organization at colleagues from different cultures. What cultural differences can you see, between theirs and the prevailing organizational culture? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. What impacts do those cultural differences have on workplace relationships, performance, motivation, collaboration, etc (2 MC CPD Points)

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