Product Description

A unique training book containing over 100 culture awareness exercises, dialogues, stories incidents and simulations that bring to life Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of culture. These dimensions are: power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainly avoidance, and long-term versus short-term orientation. Exploring Culture also contains new material on Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions and the synthetic cultures. An excellent partner to Hofstede's popular Cultures & Organizations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109829 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 234 pages

About the Author
Geert Hofstede is an international authority in the field of cross-cultural social psychology and is cofounder of the Institute for Research and Intercultural cooperation at Tilburg University where he also serves as a Senior Fellow. Culture's Consequences and Cultures and Organizations are two of the books for which he is famous. Gert Jan Hofstede, son of Geert Hofstede, is a senior researcher and Assistant Professor in Information Technology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has authored four books and numerous articles. Paul B Pedersen is Professor Emeritus as Syracuse University's School of Education. He is a well-known author and authority in the field of cross-cultural counselling. He is the author of Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counselling and Therapy. He has taught at universities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Customer Reviews

Easy to read, easy to use
This is the one I've been looking for. Having read and enjoyed "Culture's Consequences", I was looking for exercises to make the subject more concrete. I am a management trainer and often work with international groups. A subject that envelopes them, yet eludes them, is how to deal with cultural differences. The book offers small warming-ups, larger instructive exercises, descriptions of easy-to-do simulations and also "where to buy" pages for more sophisiticated simulations.
One thing though: you might want to read up on Hofstede's other books to get more background in the subject. This book is really focused on training purposes. An improvement could have been to indicate times and needed material for each exercise, but the experienced trainer will have no problem envisioning the exercise.
Although the book holds Geert Hofstede's name, it appears to have been written mostly by his son Gert Jan et al. No criticism though; as said, this was really the book I was looking for.