Click HERE can link to Brooklyn College's Online Pedagogy Project.

Note: The idea of global management knowledge presented on this page can be found in the Professor Geert Hofstede's research  as presented in his paper "Cultural Constraints in Management Theories". Here is the static link to Professor Geert Hofstede's article.

Click HERE if you want to see his table of results for 6 countries.

The  Research Plan can be seen by clicking Management Culture Plan.

Power Distance - the degree of inequality between  people which the population of a country considers as normal: from  relatively equal (that is, small power distance) to extremely unequal (large power distance).

Individuality - the degree to which people in a country prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. The opposite notion to this is "Collectivism" in which there is low individualism (but no political notions are intended here). In collectivist societies children maintain a high degree of respect for the members of their group (usually the family) and children effectively distinguish between in group members an out-group members. When such (Collectivist Society) children group they tend to remain loyal to their groups throughout life. In contrast, in individualist societies, a child learns early on to think of himself/herself as "I" as opposed to "we". This is consistent with the child's expectation that one day it  will be on its own two feet, rather than relying on a group for support and protection.

Masculinity - and its opposite pole Femininity. It is the degree to which tough values like assertiveness, performance, success and competition, in which nearly all societies are associated with the role of men; prevalence over tender values like quality of life, maintaining warm personal relationships, service, care of weak, and solidarity, which in nearly all societies are more associated with women's roles.

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