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Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory

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A framework describing how a society's culture affects the values of its members and how those values relate to behavior, developed by Geert Hofstede from a survey of IBM employees across dozens of countries.

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National cultures differ systematically along a small set of measurable value dimensions, originally including individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity-femininity. 1
Origin Year
1980 1
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1. Wikipedia: Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory
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individualism-collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; power distance (strength of social hierarchy) and masculinity-femininity
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1. Wikipedia: Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory
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Geert Hofstede created the cultural dimensions theory in 1980
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