Hofstede´s Dimensions of Culture Applied to Forty Countries

The theoretical model HOFSTEDE Greet The cultural aspect of Hofstede Cultural Dimensions was developed on the basis of collecting data from IBM and its subsidiaries covering more than 70 countries from 1967 to 1973. Hofstede's framework discusses national culture. 116,000 workers from IBM from 40 countries participated in the dimension survey. This survey was conducted in 1970 to clarify the differences between employees and managers (Stephen P.

Both Hofstede (1980, 1984), Hofstede and Bond (1988) and Trompenaars (1994) proposes cultural aspects that can evaluate different ethnic cultural patterns. In this article I will explain the cultural aspect of Hofstede in detail. Because they are widely cited in the literature. The cultural aspect simplifies judgment and practice by emphasizing the central elements that can compare national cultures. These "elements" are common to all national cultures. The national culture contains the culture of the sovereign state and does not include the different subcultures that exist within each sovereign state.

2) To explore the theme of Hofstede's cultural aspect by exploring the six cultural aspects of Hofstede framework and to use these aspects to better understand culture and people 3) Case study of cultural differences; urgency of managing cultural differences as part of four human resource management 5) Conclusion. The original theory proposed by Hofstede includes four dimensions, force distance, avoidance of uncertainty, individualism and collectivism, and masculinity and femininity. After doing independent research in Hong Kong, Hofstede includes 5-dimensional, long-term and short-term direction to explain the value aspect not part of its first theory. Also in 2010, Hofstede designed another dimension of "Culture and Organization: Mind Software" version co-authored by Michael Cinkov.