Lower-level employees in host countries often feel uncomfortable with expatriate managers from the United States who attempt to establish more participative and egalitarian management practices. This is an example of which of the following cultural dimensions at work?

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Power distance is the extent to which less powerful members of organizations or institutions within a country or society expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. Host country employees may feel uncomfortable with expatriate managers who try to establish more egalitarian management practices because they may perceive it as a challenge to their traditional power structure and expect their superiors to maintain a greater distance from them in terms of status and authority.

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