Dimensions
Remember the five big issues in societies nicknamed CHAOS. Here are the
corresponding names of five bipolar dimensions of values: |
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This stuff is well known
from:
If you
really want to know what these five dimensions are about, read the book. |
| C: collectivism versus individualism |
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| H: large vs small power distance |
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| A: masculinity versus femininity |
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| O: strong vs weak uncertainty avoidance |
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| S: short vs long-term orientation |
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| The rules of chess are simple, but how
many people can play well? By analogy, understanding what complexity is created by just these five
dimensions is a life's task. Most people have no clue. This leads to
consequences
that range from vexations to full-blown wars. |
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| You may wish to leave my site for a
US-based site affiliated to culture trainers and consultants ITIM that has
bar charts with
country
scores on the five dimensions, or another site created by I do not
know whom that shows coloured world
maps with some of the scores. Or check out
Luke Greer's smart graphs
with dimension scores across the world.
P.S. I get loads of emails that the book
"Cultures and Organizations" answers. Please consult it first before
emailing; that's what we wrote it for! Some frequent errors:
 | a country is mono-cultural (no, but we
often have no data about smaller regions. We have them for some, e.g.
Belgium, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia; and it shows variation) |
| individuals have culture scores (no, only
populations do) |
| it makes sense to come up with new
dimension scores for one population at a time (no, only comparing
matched samples works) |
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