power distance

This approach has been particularly successful in Sweden where the power distance between manager and team is small.

In cultures where people are (supposed to be) equal, the power distance is low.

Power distance is the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in a particular society.

The lower the power distance of a country, the more dominant individuality and individual rights are.

Less powerful individuals try to decrease the power distance between themselves and their superiors.

On the one hand, the level of power distance does have an influence over a society's reaction towards controllable needs.

Moreover, both of the two factors are expected to place similar impacts on narrowing power distance.

Face orientation also involves the concept of power distance.

When power distance is low, society does not emphasize people's status, power, or wealth.

It can also be defined using the power distance defined from a set of circles.

"The culture does not have a power distance.

Conversely, people in low power distance countries are more sensitive towards any unequal phenomena.

"Low power distance" cultures give carefully circumscribed authority to leaders accountable to those they serve.

In high power distance cultures, it is uncommon for subordinates to to question their superiors.

Highly individualistic cultures tend to be low in power distance, and vice versa.

In societies with a low power distance, individuals tend to try to distribute power equally.

The smaller the power distance, the more likely is the occurrence of less powerful individuals trying to reduce that distance.

Her position supports the hypothesis that mentoring programmes would be more successful in societies/situations where there is less power distance.

More privileged individuals tend to try to preserve or to broaden their power distance from subordinates.

Generally, countries with high power distance cultures hold that there is nothing wrong with inequality and thus, everyone could be in specific positions.

It came up 1C: dueling by guns, lasers, and similar powered distance weapons.

If you have a Power Distance culture, they are more reluctant to share information, or they would limit access.

The consequence is high power distance enlarging the gap between human beings in terms of relations and wealth conditions.

Hence in countries with higher power distance, innovative manufacturing companies are somewhat more bound to resort to process innovations.

The questionnaire reflects a large power distance: its questions were explicitly designed to resolve the normative concerns of researchers.