Job design aimed at empowerment is likely to be difficult in cultures with high power distance.

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Power distance concerns the way the culture deals with unequal distribution of power and defines the amount of inequality that is normal. In countries with large power distances, the culture defines it as normal to maintain large differences in power. Job design aimed at employee empowerment can be problematic in cultures with high "power distance."

Job Design Aimed at Empowerment Is Likely to Be Difficult