Can Russia become America? Russian study of management culture using Geert Hofstede’s method
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Dubitskaya V.P., Tararukhina M.I. Can Russia become America? Russian study of management culture using Geert Hofstede’s method. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 2010. No. 4. P. С. 42-65. (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article examines G. Hofstede’s method of comparative analysis of national organizational cultures using the results of a Russian study, conducted in an electric grid company. The alternative interpretation of the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions is given. It is shown that one of the scales “measures” a labour-market condition rather than national culture differences. The other scale combines two oppositely directed dimensions.Russian indexes are calculated for every of the four cultural dimensions of Hofstede’s method. Russian organizational culture constants are validated and explained as well. It is concluded, that differences between American and Russian business cultures are so big that methods of management borrowed from American practice won’t work inRussia. The assertion that within one country Hofstede’s method can reveal intra-cultural regional differences produced by historical ways of settlement is not out of interest.
Keywords:
Hofstede, organizational anthropology, organizational culture, management, methods of comparative study
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Hofstede G. Culture’s consequences. International differences in work-related values. Newbury Park, California: SAGE Publication, Inc., 1984.
Hofstede G. Cultures and organizations. Software of the mind. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Hofstede G. Cultures and organizations. Software of the Mind. New York – San Francisco – Washington, D.C.: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Hofstede G. Culture's consequence: comparing values, behaviours, institutions and organizations across nations. New York: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003.
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Dubitskaya, V.P. and Tararukhina, M.I. 2010. Can Russia become America? Russian study of management culture using Geert Hofstede’s method. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 4 (Mar. 2010), С. 42-65.
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