http://via-web.de Mon, 02 May 2016 08:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 http://via-web.de/power-distance/#comment-100 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:10:12 +0000 http://via-web.de/?page_id=45#comment-100 […] Power distance is the degree to which less powerful members of an organization tolerate unequal distribution of power. So in a high power distance culture, people tend to accept the inequalities between employers and employees, or parents and children. In the opposite, people from a low power culture cannot easily tolerate the unfairness. Uncertainty avoidance is the tendency to behave so as to arrange things in a way that minimizes unforeseen consequences. In a high uncertainty avoidance culture, people value traditions and routines, whereas in a low uncertainty avoidance culture, people have a propensity to change. It is easier for them to adapt to new things. […]

]]> http://via-web.de/power-distance/#comment-99 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:41:13 +0000 http://via-web.de/?page_id=45#comment-99 […] politics, seniority, age, and education were revered; work ethic and talent were not. The large power distance between staff and bosses in the Hanoi office made it impossible to have a frank discussion with […]

]]> http://via-web.de/power-distance/#comment-98 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:05:00 +0000 http://via-web.de/?page_id=45#comment-98 Very helpful thanks. We have a business in India and confront issues of high and low content and power-distance frequently. It’s one thing to understand these concepts, it’s another to confront it day to day.

]]> http://via-web.de/power-distance/#comment-97 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:07:52 +0000 http://via-web.de/?page_id=45#comment-97 Power is dependency and distance is ultimately rejection. Dependent rejection can be very bad when good people are wronged. That happens when cultural paradigms shift, such as in the 1960s, when moral bankruptcy set in with postmodernism. The minds that were hit the hardest were the same that tried to stop it and they deserve a life. Promoting power-distance therefore should be reversed. Mauk Mulder who coined it, meant to describe how lower echelons try to close- and higher echelons try to widen the power-distance gap between them. It has even spilled into comedy, such as Keeping Up Appearances. I believe we need independent confirmation to heal those beautiful souls now, for they deserve it. That means no power and no distance anymore. Social media are making this possible, but people are also hitting the brakes and that must really, really end now.

]]> http://via-web.de/power-distance/#comment-96 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:54:37 +0000 http://via-web.de/?page_id=45#comment-96 great insight

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