6 dimensiones culturales de geert hofstede biography

Framework for cross-cultural communication

Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede.

It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis.^[1]

Hofstede developed his original model as a result of using factor analysis to examine the results of a worldwide survey of employee values by International Business Machines between 1967 and 1973.

It has been refined since. The original theory proposed four dimensions along which cultural values could be analyzed: individualism-collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; power distance (strength of social hierarchy) and masculinity-femininity (task-orientation versus person-orientation).

The Hofstede Cultural Dimensions factor analysis^[2] is based on extensive cultural preferences research conducted by Gert