Study week Dubai 2015: Hofstede and the Masculinity Index
In intercultural studies, Hofstede’s Indexes of Culture provide an empirical way to compare countries. Based on the Power-Distance Index, for example, all major airlines around the world have created guidelines to overcome deference to authority: In a cockpit, where the lives of passengers and crew are potentially at stake, bowing and scraping is inappropriate behavior. You have to be able to criticize the captain regardless of their social standing. The implementation of low-context communication and low power-distance is now industry …