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41. Assume that you are visiting Mexico for a business meeting and you call your host by his first name rather than his title. He seems offended. Your offense most likely stemmed from a difference between the U.S. culture and Mexico’s culture on which dimension? 
A. Individualism/collectivism
B. Uncertainty avoidance
C. Power distance
D. Long-term/short-term orientation

Power distance, concerns how a culture deals with hierarchical power relationships—particularly the unequal distribution of power.

42. Values such as success, performance, assertiveness, and competition are associated with 
A. short-term oriented cultures.
B. masculine cultures.
C. high power distance cultures.
D. low uncertainty avoidance.

Masculine societies stress assertiveness, performance, success, and competition.

43. Which one of the following countries has the most masculine culture according to Hofstede’s masculinity/femininity dimension? 
A. Japan
B. Russia
C. Sweden
D. Norway

In “masculine” cultures, such as those of Germany and Japan, what are considered traditionally masculine values—showing off, achieving something visible, and making money—permeate the society. “Feminine” cultures, such as those of Sweden and Norway, promote values that have been traditionally regarded as feminine, such as putting relationships before money, helping others, and preserving the environment.

44. According to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, a culture that is characterized by easygoing and flexible people regarding different views and taking each day as it comes is one that is 
A. low in uncertainty avoidance.
B. high in femininity.
C. low in power distance.
D. high in long-term orientation.

People from cultures with weak uncertainty avoidance tend to be rather easygoing and flexible regarding different views.

45. The Hofstede’s dimension that deals with the degree to which a culture prefers structured over unstructured conditions is 
A. power distance.
B. individualism.
C. risk aversion.
D. uncertainty avoidance.

Uncertainty avoidance is defined as the degree to which people in a culture prefer structured over unstructured situations.

46. The Japanese criticism of management practices in the United States illustrates the differences in 
A. uncertainty avoidance.
B. power distance.
C. long-/short-term orientation.
D. masculinity-femininity values.

The current Japanese criticism of management practices in the United States illustrates the differences in long-term-short-term orientation.

47. According to Hofstede’s research, a country’s economic health is most positively correlated with a high 
A. masculinity.
B. uncertainty avoidance.
C. power distance.
D. individualism.

Hofstede found that countries with individualist cultures were more wealthy.

48. Individualistic cultures often exhibit 
A. increased use of profit-sharing plans.
B. greater differences between the highest- and lowest-paid individuals in the organization.
C. flatter salary structures.
D. smaller differences between the highest- and lowest-paid individuals in the organization.

Individualistic cultures such as those found in the United States often exhibit great differences between the highest- and lowest-paid individuals in an organization, with the highest-paid individual often receiving 200 times the salary of the lowest.

49. Countries with which kind of cultural dimension tend to have the flattest salary structures? 
A. Long-term oriented
B. Short-term oriented
C. Individualistic
D. Collectivist

Collectivist cultures tend to have much flatter salary structures, with the top-paid individual receiving only about 20 times the overall pay of the lowest-paid one.

50. The trend for U.S. companies to relocate their currently unionized low-skill-high-wage manufacturing and assembly jobs to Mexico is explained in part by Mexico’s 
A. strong political-legal system.
B. low level of human capital.
C. strong economic system.
D. low power distance culture.

Countries with low human capital attract facilities that require low skills and low wage levels. This explains why U.S. companies desire to move their currently unionized low-skill-high-wage manufacturing and assembly jobs to Mexico, where they can obtain low-skilled workers for substantially lower wages.