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Geert Hofstede Quotes

1928–2020 Netherlands

Geert Hofstede (born 2 October 1928 – 12 February 2020) is a Dutch social psychologist, former IBM employee, and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, well-known for his pioneering research of cross-cultural groups and organizations.

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Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

Individualism implies a loosely knit social framework in which people are supposed to take care of themselves and of their immediate families only.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

Values are a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

All societies are unequal, but some are more unequal than others.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

Individualism pertains to societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after himself or herself and his or her immediate family.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

Collectivism stands for a society in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout people's lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.

Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

What Machiavelli did not write but what the association between political systems and citizens' mental software suggests is that which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geert Hofstede (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.