Jennifer has been assigned to manage an operation in Venezuela. Upon her arrival she encouraged all of her employees (native Venezuelans) to feel free to individually approach her with ideas on improving operations. After many months, no employees had offered suggestions. Jennifer should have realized that Venezuelan culture not only has a _________ degree of collectivism but accepts a _________ power distance.

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Power distance is the extent to which a society accepts the fact that power in organizations is distributed unequally. Individualism/collectivism is the extent to which people act on their own or as a part of a group. Figure 6.7 shows that Venezuela has a large power distance and a high collectivism.

Jennifer Has Been Assigned to Manage an Operation in Venezuela