Hofstede Indices
Comparative Management Models
Isms
Potpourri
10-Letter Words
100
IDV is used to measure this, a synonym for independence.
What is Individualism (Hofstede)?
100
This comparative management model identified four dimensions based on attitude surveys of 117,000 employees who worked at IBM.
What is Hofstede's Model?
100
The eponym of this colloquial term is associated with Scientific Management.
What is Taylorism?
100
Using data collected over a period of 80 years, Hofstede discovered that countries' values for this index tend to go up during periods of war and economic crisis and down during periods of peace and economic stability.
What is UAI?
100
This ten-letter word refers to the study of people's efficiency and safety in their working environment.
What is ergonomics?
200
Don't confuse this measure of socially endorsed use of force with the Spanish word for "more."
What is MAS?
200
This comparative management model grouped human values into 10 groups called value type.
What is the Schwartz Value Survey?
200
The opposite of collectivism, this term refers to freedom of thought and action.
What is individualism?
200
SVS stands for this, a series of studies conducted by its eponym in the 1990s.
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What is the Schwartz Value Survey?
200
A person who lives outside their native country is referred to using this ten-letter word.
What is expatriate?
300
This Hofstede index measures Hofstede's equivalent for Confucian work dynamism, a dimension discovered in 1987 that was found to be important in Chinese culture.
What is LTO?
300
Named after two people, this comparative management model identified the following six dimensions along which societies can be categorized: relationships to nature, beliefs about human nature, relationships between people, nature of human activity, conception of space, and orientation to time.
What is the Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck Model?
300
This term refers to the principle that all of a country's land and industry should be owned and managed by a government or by all its citizens.
What is collectivism?
300
He is often associated with the Hawthorne studies.
Who is Elton Mayo?
300
These people are responsible for making decisions about businesses or organizations.
Group of people whose activities are to coordinate others in order to achieve specific objectives
400
Hofstede ranks Russia and Mexico very high on this, also referred to by the initialism PDI.
What is the Power Distance Index (Hofstede)?
400
The study associated with this comparative management model identified the following seven dimensions: universalism-particularism, individualism-collectivism, neutral-affective, specific-diffuse, achievement-ascription, time, and environment.
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What is Trompenaars's Model of National Culture Differences?
400
People who believe in this argue that some ideas can be applied everywhere and in every situation.
What is univeralism?
400
This researcher is associated with the theory of scientific management, also known as Taylorism.
Who is Frederick Winslow Taylor?
400
When someone bases a business or part of a business in a different country, they are doing this.
What is offshoring?
500
It measures the shorter of Hofstede's last two dimensions. In a society that ranks high on this index, one might say, "I am going to Disneyland tomorrow!"
What is Indulgence (Hofstede)?
500
A comparative management model that measures cultures using nine dimensions, the GLOBE study stands for this.
What is Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Study?
500
This refers to the belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Who is Geert Hofstede?
500
When combined, these two ten-letter words form a term that refers to a type of management in which the importance of relationships between management and workers is recognized.
What is Humanistic Management?