Read your country's profile on Geert Hofstede - Cultural Dimensions. What do you think of modeling an entire culture on just four traits? Are there aspects of the culture that are not covered by these dimensions? What do you think of the mere concept of culture as a group of individuals having the same traits?
If you cannot find your country in the list provided, either use a geographically and culturally close country, or try to determine, based on your knowledge of your own culture, what the scores on each cultural dimension would be. You may also research other sources to find cultural dimensions data about your country.
You may use these additional resources to answer the above questions:
- Culture - GlobalEdge Multimedia lecture (34 min)
- What is Culture (FGCU multimedia presentation)
- National cultures and the values of Organizational Employees (Trompenaars, 1996)