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• 1 National Culture and Organisational culture

• 1.2 Dimensions of National Culture

• What does the dimensions of national culture represent?

  The six dimension represent independent preferences for one state of affairs over another that distinguish countries from each other?

• 1.2.1 Power Distance Index

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• What is Power Distance Index?

  This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful memmbers of a society accept and expect that power is distributed.

• Explain a high Power Distance Index

  A high power distance index accept a hierachical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justifications.

• Explain a low Power Distance Index

  In a low power distance index people stirve to equalise the distribution of power and demand justifications for unequalities of power.

• 1.2.3 Masculinity VS Feminity

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• What is the abbreviation for the dimension Femininty VS Masculinity?

  MAS

• 1.2.4 Uncentainty Avoidence Index

• What does the Uncertainty Avoidence Index expres?

  This dimension expresses the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.

• What is the fundamental issue in this dimension?

  The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known.

• What is a abbreviation for the dimension UNcentainty Avoidence Index?

  UAI

• What is a strong UAI

  Maintain rigid codes of beliefs and behavior, and are intolerant of unorthodox behabior and ideas.

• What is a weak UAI?

  Maintain a more relexed attitude in which practice counts more than principles .