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1. In countries on the opposite side of the power distance scale, where employees are seen as frequently afraid of disagreeing with their bosses and bosses as autocratic or paternalistic, employees in similar jobs are less likely to prefer a consultative boss.

1. Status symbols are suspect, and subordinates will be most likely to comment negatively to their neighbors if their boss spends company money on an excessive car.

1. Privileges for higher-ups being basically undesirable, all should use the same parking lot, toilets, and cafeteria.

1. Organizations are supposed to have structured ways of dealing with employee about alleged power abuse.
2. Some packaged leadership methods may work if given sufficient management attention.

1. Subordinates expect to be consulted before a decision is made that affects their work, but they accept that the boss is the one who finally decides.

1. Given an extreme diversity of feeling towards superiors, relationships between subordinates and superiors in a large power distance organizations are frequently loaded with emotions.

1. Being a victim of power abuse by one’s boss is just bad luck; there is no assumption that there should be a means of redress against such a situation.

1. Organizations are fairly decentralized, with flat hierarchical pyramids and limited numbers of supervisory personnel operating.

1. Subordinates are expected to be told what to do.

1. In the classroom there is supposed to be a strict order with the teacher initiating all communication.

1. Classes differ in their access to and their opportunities for benefiting from the advantages of society, one of them being education.

1. How frequently, in your experience, does the following problem occur: employees being afraid to express disagreement with their managers?'

1. In fact one country scored above l00, because it was added to the list after the formula had been fixed and it would have been cumbersome to keep changing the formula.

1. They tell something about the mental software that comes with having one nationality as compared to another.

1. Most people start their working lives as young adults, after having gone through learning experiences in the family and at school.

1. When a child misbehaves teachers involve its parents and expect them to help in putting the child in order.

1. The entire system is based on the students' well-developed need for independence; the quality of learning is to a considerable extent determined by the excellence of the students.

1. Differences in social status leading to inequality are also the prime criterion by which occupations can be distinguished.

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Date: 2015-01-02; view: 947