V S M 2013 VALUES SURVEY MODULE 2013 MANUAL by Geert Hofstede and Michael Minkov NOT TO BE COPIED IN WHOLE OR IN PARTS WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER Release May 2013 Copyright @ Geert Hofstede BV rights@geerthofstede.nl ; www.geerthofstede.eu Contents Page 1. Purpose of the VSM 2013: comparing national samples 2 2. The VSM 2013 is not for comparing individuals 3 3. The VSM 2013 is not for
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difference between cultures that you have witnessed. Use the Geert Hofstede website links below to compare the two cultures in your example and describe the relative merits of the different approaches in an organizational situation. Main Hofstede Web site: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/ (page down for descriptions of the cultural dimensions) Compare two cultures: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php (If the Hofstede website is not working this week‚ then please do your best with
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Gerard Hendrik Hofstede (born October 2‚ 1928 in Haarlem) is a Dutch expert in cultural studies [GHW]. Hofstede (1980) surveyed 88‚000 IBM employees working in 66 countries and then ranked the countries on different cultural dimensions. His research resulted in four dimensions (power distance; individualism versus collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; and masculinity and femininity). In the beginning‚ China was not included in this study but later Bond and Hofstede looked at Chinese values. From this
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Hofstede’s Five Aspects of Culture Hofstede ’s cultural factors Explanations > Culture > Hofstede ’s cultural factors Power | Self | Gender | Predictability | Time | So what? Geert Hofstede‚ a Dutch cultural anthropologist‚ analyzed cultures along five dimensions. He rated 58 countries on each dimension on a scale from 1 to 100. Power Hofstede named this Power Distance (PD or PDI). It is the extent to which less powerful members expect and accept unequal power distribution.
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though there is no available data for the future‚ one can study current major findings of reputable academic sources within the cross-cultural field. To better understand the cross-cultural field‚ one must first define culture as a term. Geert Hofstede defined culture as “the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those of another. Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values.” Gesteland and Gesteland (2010) made a more relevant
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1108/02756660710746256 Hall‚ E Hofstede‚ G. (1984). Culture’s consequences: international differences in work-related values. Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage Publications. Hofstede‚ G. (1991). Cultures and organizations – software of the mind. New York‚ NY: Mcgraw-Hill. Hofstede‚ G. (2001). Cultures Consequences: Comparing Values‚ Behaviours‚ Institutions & Organizations Across Nations. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Hofstede‚ G. (2014). China. Retrieved from http://geert-hofstede.com/china.html Hofstede‚ G Hofstede‚ G. (2014). United
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[Accessed 3 July 2013]. Cameron‚ Kim S. Quinn‚ Robert E.‚ (2005). Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture. [Online]. Wiley. Available from: [Accessed 10 July 2013]. Hofstede G‚ Hofstede G.J. and Minkov M. (2010). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Revised and Expanded 3rd Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. Hofstede G. (2001). Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values‚ Behaviors‚ Institutions‚ and Organizations Across Nations. Second Edition‚ Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. Seymour
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Hofstede‚ G. (1984). Culture ’s Consequences – International Differences in Work-Related Values. Newbury Park: Sage Publications Inc. Hofstede‚ G. (n.a.). ’Cultural Dimensions Japan ’ [online]. Available at: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_japan.shtml [Accessed 7 May 2009]. Hofstede‚ G. (n.a.). ’Cultural Dimensions Sweden ’ [online]. Available at: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_sweden.shtml [Accessed 7 May 2009]. Hofstede‚ G. (1991). Cultures and organizations
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ambitions and local identities: An Israeli-American high-tech merger Ailon-Souday‚ G.‚ & Kunda‚ G. 2003. The local selves of global workers: The social construction of national identity in the face of organizational globalization Baskerville‚ R. F. 2003. Hofstede never studied culture. Accounting‚ Organizations and Society‚ 28: 1–14. Bhagat‚ R. S. 2002. Book review of Culture’s consequences: Comparing values‚ behaviors‚ institutions‚ and organizations across nations (second edition) Bing‚ J. W. 2004. Hofstede’s
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particular things different from one human group to another and therefore culture separates groups of people (Geert Hofstede). This applies to all kind of groups‚ such as national‚ but also organizational. In this assignment I will investigate to what extent the results of my personal cultural profile match the profile of my domestic culture (Dutch) using the 5 dimensions model (Hofstede‚ Hofstede and Minkov‚ 2010). Next to that I will discuss if the results of my cultural profile present me well‚ according
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