Scenario: Global Trading, Inc.
Global Trading, Inc. (GTI) is a company that manufactures and markets in over 40 countries and has 75,000 employees. GTI is concerned about understanding and managing not only its employees abroad, but also its suppliers and customers. Jamie, a consultant with Diversity Training International, is supervising a cross-cultural project for GTI and proposes using the Hofstede framework for analyzing cultures. Executives with GTI are interested in the framework, but have many questions.
-Jamie presents GTI managers with the following list of Hofstede dimensions to test their understanding of the framework. Which dimension should the managers identify as the one that does not belong?

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The Hofstede framework does not include a dimension comparing caste systems to class systems. The other four dimensions are commonly used in cross-cultural analysis and are part of Hofstede's original framework.