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.
-One manager indicates that her subsidiary experiences high turnover, people follow few rules in regulating their behavior, and this seems to be characteristic of the national culture. Which one of Hofstede's dimensions might measure these characteristics?

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Hofstede's dimension of uncertainty avoidance measures the extent to which people in a culture feel threatened by uncertain or unknown situations and how strongly they avoid uncertainty. High turnover and a lack of adherence to rules may indicate a culture with low uncertainty avoidance, where people are more comfortable taking risks and adapting to changing situations.