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Measuring Russian Culture using Hofstede's Dimensions

This article reports results of Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions for 250 Russian respondents. Scores are reported for subgroups according to age, work experience, occupation, number of subordinates, and geographical region. On average, responses showed that Russian culture in the mid‐1990s appear...

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Published in:Applied psychology 2000-10, Vol.49 (4), p.709-718
Main Authors: Naumov, Alexander, Puffer, Sheila
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Language:English
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Summary:This article reports results of Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions for 250 Russian respondents. Scores are reported for subgroups according to age, work experience, occupation, number of subordinates, and geographical region. On average, responses showed that Russian culture in the mid‐1990s appeared to be moderate in individualism, masculinity, and power distance, and fairly high in paternalism and uncertainty avoidance. The younger generation that came of age during the perestroika of the late 1980s and early 1990s had the highest scores in masculinity and the lowest scores in paternalism. Individuals employed in business had higher uncertainty avoidance than people in the university sector. On analyse dans cet article les re´ponses de 250 Russes sur les cinq dimensions culturelles d’Hofstede. Les scores sont ventile´s par sous‐groupes selon l’âge, l’expe´rience professionnelle, le me´tier, le nombre de subordonne´s et la re´gion. En moyenne, il apparaït que la culture russe du milieu des anne´es 90 est mode´re´e en individualisme, masculinite´ et distance hie´rarchique, et assez haute en paternalisme et contrôle de l’incertitude. La jeune ge´ne´ration qui parvint à l’adolescence lors de la perestroïka (autour de 1990) a les plus hauts scores en masculinite´ et les plus faibles en paternalisme. Les individus du monde des affaires pre´sentent un plus fort contrôle de l’incertitude que ceux du secteur universitaire.
ISSN:0269-994X
1464-0597
DOI:10.1111/1464-0597.00041