Question

Scenario: Frankfurter Friday Betty Cleveland is the vice president of Frankfurter Friday, a highly successful hot dog joint in Oceania. Her company decides to expand to Asia and identifies China as the ideal market. Before she leaves for China, she studies their culture extensively and discovers that the number four is considered extremely unlucky, that not everybody is fluent in China's official language—Mandarin—and that punctuality is a highly valued trait in the country. Betty notices that organizations in China tend to be hierarchical with power derived from prestige and force. Which of the following statements is consistent with her observation? Chinese society considers caste system and class system a myth. China owes its success to its individualistic society. China scores high on the power distance dimension. Chinese men are subordinate to Chinese women.

Answer 1

Betty’s observations are consistent with the cultural dimensions theory developed by Hofstede, which compared several cultures on their cultural values to come to a framework of cultural dimensions. China scores very high on this scale of power distance.

Question: Which of the following statements is consistent with her observation?

Answer: C. China scores high on the power distance dimension.