Hofstede terms
MAS
What is masculinity?
A comparative management model that scores countries based on certain criteria including indulgence, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
What is the Hofstede model?
Using resources from outside the organisation for work that was previously performed internally.
What is outsourcing?
The loss of employees due to any reason.
What is turnover?
The empirical model of science.
What is the scientific method?
What is LTO?
A comparative management model organising ten "universal human values" according to motivational similarities and dissimilarities.
What is the Schwartz value survey?
A worker with a citizenship of a differing country.
Activities and incentives by the organisation to encourage employees to act in the best interest of the organisation.
What is employee engagement?
The study of worker safety and efficiency in the workplace.
What is ergonomics?
IDV
What is individualism?
A comparative management model that focuses on five orientations of cultures and their variations.
What is the Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck model?
The belief that one's own culture is superiour to any / all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A colloquial term for scientific management.
What is Taylorism?
An in-depth description of a study to explore management principles.
UAI
What is the uncertainty avoidance index?
A study that compares cultures along nine different dimensions, including humane orientation, assertiveness, and power distance.
What is the GLOBE study?
A person's ability to understand how cultural background influences their behaviour?
Completing work while considerating the future impact of the workplace, supply-chain, environment, and community.
What are sustainable business practices?
Popular management theories that aren't backed by the scientific method.
What are informercial theories?
What is PDI?
A comparative management model that uses nine dimensions to describe differences among cultures. Competitive advantages in creativity and innovation are acknowledged with cross-cultural differences.
What is Trompenaars model of national culture differences?
The study of culture and values for the understanding of similarities and differences in global workplace and organisations.
What is comparative management?
Principles and practices that recognise the important relationship between employer and employee.
What is humanistic management?
Analysing a collection of works to find statistical correlations to find concurrence and themes.
What is meta-analysis?