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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimNational cultures differ systematically along a small set of measurable value dimensions, originally including individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity-femininity. 1 Connections
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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's 1961 values-orientation framework was one of the earliest cross-cultural theories of values and shares conceptual ground with Hofstede's later cultural dimensions theory, including the individualism-collectivism dimension both frameworks address.
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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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Geert Hofstede created the cultural dimensions theory in 1980
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