International Management and Managing Expectations

What is International Management? Checking the online encyclopedia Wikipedia does not give an answer (the page does not exist!). Still, in Cultural Awareness Training, it is a real important issue. How do you manage internationally and/or how do you manage the...

Compliance Risk Management In Different Cultures

It is well known that different cultures deal differently with Compliance Risk Management. But why is this? How do different cultures deal with rules and regulations in general? Is it true that Germans always stick to the rules? And that Americans only look at the...

Examples of Uncertainty Avoidance

What are Good Examples of Uncertainty Avoidance? Since this is (or at least I think it is) one of the most difficult dimensions of Professor Geert Hofstede to explain, it makes sense to give some extra context and examples of Uncertainty Avoidance. If you’re not...

Power Distance: An Illustration/Story

One of the Characteristics of Power Distance is respect for the elderly. In other words, in countries that score high on Power Distance people, who are older (and greyer) get (and deserve) more respect than the young ones. A Story I was sitting on the couch a couple...