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    Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition

    By Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede and Michael Minkov

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    The revolutionary study of how the place where wegrew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act--with new dimensions and perspectives

    Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperationis so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from MichaelMinkov’s analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account ofthe evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, this revised and expanded edition:

    • Reveals the “moral circles” from which national societiesare built and the unexamined rules by which people think,feel, and act
    • Explores how national cultures differ in the areas of inequality,assertiveness versus modesty, and tolerance for ambiguity
    • Explains how organizational cultures differ from nationalcultures—and how they can be managed
    • Analyzes stereotyping, differences in language, cultural rootsof the 2008 economic crisis, and other intercultural dynamics
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateMay 24, 2010
    ISBN9780071770156
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    • 4/5
      "Cultures and Organizations" is a thoroughly worthwhile non-political and non-theoretical sociology text. The authors keep an open mind and allow social typologies to emerge statistically from international social surveys, such as the IBM survey of international employees, the World Values Survey and the Chinese Values Survey.They had to find words and phrases that best described the "poles" that they found and usefully selected 1) power distance 2) masculinity 3) individualism 4) uncertainty avoidance 5) long term orientation and 6) indulgence. Each term deals with its opposite and can be mapped on a chart showing for instance a low power distance between managers and employees in Scandinavia (they're all together working on a project) or a high power distance in France (they are part of a table of ranks, giving and receiving orders). The conclusions are very interesting, showing for example the historical tendency for individualism to grow in wealthy societies (a prediction for Asia?) and the clear link between long term orientation and economic development (most visible in the Chinese Value Survey).The authors admit to having a harder job explaining the origins of cultural differences. In the last chapter they search for origins of cultural differences in the early history of mankind, particularly the appearance of high power distances in the first populous settled agricultural societies. In the modern context, they see the dangers of a global marketplace that lacks a global village. They argue that it is essential to abandon tribalism and racism in favour of the global village "all together in one world" and that this would be the next triumphant step in human cultural evolution. The new evolutionary path would benefit everyone in the long run and importantly protect the natural world.
    • 4/5
      The author declares their political and worldview positions early in their book. There are loads of well-accomplished research and analysis presentations. The conclusions are where the book suffers, as the conclusions often do not match the analysis.
    • 5/5
      A detailed and fascinating review of Hofstede's dimensions, by the researcher himself, showing broad high-level insights into history and culture, although a bit tedious, as it often describes in detail relationships many of us implicitly understand.