hofstede map of world cultures
I've been reading a book that attempts to explain how to navigate different national cultures at the workplace. So, if you're from one country that's in a certain cultural area but working in a country from another culture, what do you have to pay attention to when it comes to managing staff, projects, and meetings. I put together the map below to show the different regions, based on the content in the book. The title is "The Seven Mental Images of National Culture" by Huib Wursten.
The regions
- Contest
- Network
- Well-oiled machine
- Solar system
- Pyramid
- Family
- Japan
I made this map on mapchart.net. If you would like to recreate it, you can save the text below to a .txt file and upload that.
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