Power distance index geert hofstede biography

Geert Hofstede, assisted by others, came up with six basic issues that society needs to come to term with in order to organize itself.

Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory pdf

These are called dimensions of culture. Each of them has been expressed on a scale that runs roughly from 0 to For interactive world maps and pick-your-own-countries 3-d graphs of Hofstede dimension scores, check Hofstede's Globe in the Geert Hofstede online exhibition " An engineer's Odyssey ". Each dimension has been derived by comparing many, but not all, countries in the world.

The findings can be summarized into six world maps of the distribution of that dimension. Of course, in reality there can be quite a bit of within-country variation; these maps should be seen as rough 'climate maps' of culture. The last two dimensions were found later, and in different studies, than the first four. This is why different countries appear on the world maps.

These maps are taken from the book "Why we are different and similar" by Michael Minkov. In our book they are re-scaled to a format. The scale is also reversed for Flexhumility long-term orientation, blue on the map versus monumentalism short-term orientation, orange on the map.