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UNCERTAINTY LONG-TERM
AVOIDANCE ORIENTATION
POWER DISTANCE
HIGH LOW
Inequalities Inequalities
are existential are man-made
and natural and artificial
RUSSIA VS THE U.K
RUSSIA
Scoring: 93
Two-thirds of all
foreign investments
go to Moscow
THE U.K
Scoring: 35
- Flat team structures
- On first name terms
with managers
THE U.S VS CHINA
THE U.S
Scoring: 91
- Individualistic
- Specific
- Take care of
themselves
CHINA
Scoring: 20
- Interests of the group
- In-groups: cooperative
- Out-group: hostle
MASCULINITY/FEMININITY
MASCULINE FEMININE
Scoring: 100
- Strongly Masculine
- Work hard to achieve
a high living standard
SWEDEN
Scoring: 5
- Feminine society
- Life&work balance
- Compromise and
negotiation
“Lagom”: not too much, not too
little, not too noticeable,
everything in moderation.
The way that a society deals with
the fact that the future can never
be known
JAPAN VS THE U.S
JAPAN
Scoring: 92
- Uncertainty avoiding
countries
- Maximum predictability
THE U.S
Scoring: 46
- Fair degree of
acceptance
- More tolerant
LONG-TERM/SHORT-TERM ORIENTATION
LONG-TERM SHORT-TERM
Focused on Focused on
the future the present
and the past
SOUTH KOREA VS CANADA
SOUTH KOREA
Scoring: 100
- Pragmatic, long-term
oriented
- Serve at large for many
generations to come
CANADA
Scoring: 36
- Normative society
- Save for the future
- Achieving quick results
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