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 they have many questions.
-One manager indicates that her subsidiary experiences high turnover,that there are few formal rules for regulating individual behaviour,and that these qualities seems to be characteristic of the national culture.Which one of Hofstede's dimensions would most likely measure these qualities?

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Uncertainty avoidance measures the extent to which people in a culture feel threatened by ambiguous situations and have created beliefs and institutions to try to avoid these. High turnover and few formal rules suggest a low uncertainty avoidance culture.

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