Behavoral

Cultural Differences in Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction

Rachelle Dorsainvil

MT302/Organizational Behavior

December 3, 2012

Keith Wade

The countries I have selected are: Brazil, Japan, and the Netherlands, let’s first begin with the country Brazil.

According to Cultural Dimensions Explained website (2012), the Hofstede Graph for Brazil signifies that Uncertainty Avoidance or UAI dimension is at higher levels, which in tells that the population is less liberal to uncertainty in order to lower it they adopt laws and policies which are very strict. The Individualism or IDV dimension is only 38 and these people are collectivist comparative to other individualist countries. These two dimensions seem to be more relevant regarding the Brazilian people.

In Regards to the economy, Brazil is the top player from South America and the 9th globally. Its economy has been improved very much lately. Their inflation rate is in the normal standard, their exports have been increased, and the economy is slowly but surely growing. However, they have to improve their infrastructure, and lower the big difference in income for many people, because there are people that earn a lot of money and there are people that earn very few, so basically there’s no middle class.

Now let’s look at Japan. Japan, can be said that the dimensions with the highest levels for the Hofstede Graph are MAS, UAI, and LTO. The high level for MAS dimension denotes the fact that male people are the ones with the most important roles regarding the work environment and also the fact that there is a higher discrimination among genders. The IDV level is higher than for Brazil meaning the people are more individualist than Brazilians. The LTO dimension or the Long-Term Orientation deals with virtues no matter the truth, and focuses on thrift and perseverance.

Japan’s economic aspect expose the fact that in 2010 it was the world’s third largest economy, after US and China, regarding GDP and...