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A multinational finds that employees in one country prefer detailed written rules, clear procedures and predictable career paths, and become anxious when instructions are ambiguous. According to Hofstede, this country most likely scores high on which dimension?
The country most likely scores high on uncertainty avoidance. Employees who want detailed rules, clear procedures and predictable careers, and who feel anxious with ambiguity, are showing low tolerance for uncertainty, which Hofstede identified as a distinct cultural dimension.
- AUncertainty avoidanceCorrect
- BIndividualism
- CLow power distance
- DLong-term orientation
Explanation
A preference for rules, structure and predictability, and discomfort with ambiguity, is the hallmark of high uncertainty avoidance. Individualism relates to self-reliance versus group loyalty, and low power distance relates to flatter authority, neither of which describes this behaviour.
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