May 2025
- May 22, 2025CultureCultural Dimensions ExplainedA working guide to Hofstede's six dimensions, from power distance to indulgence, built from his IBM surveys of more than 116,000 employees across 72 countries. It carries the limits too: the 2010 Taras, Kirkman and Steel meta-analysis of 598 studies found the dimensions do predict real outcomes but account for only 5 to 15 percent of the variance in individual behavior, with within-country variation often exceeding the gap between countries.
- May 19, 2025CultureIndividualism vs CollectivismIn a 2003 study in Psychological Science, Kitayama and colleagues asked Americans and Japanese participants to redraw a line inside a resized square. Americans were better at reproducing its absolute length; Japanese participants were better at reproducing its proportion to the frame. The difference was perceptual habit, not ability. The article traces that split through Hofstede's Individualism Index and Markus and Kitayama's independent versus interdependent self.
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