Question

​Robert, a marketing manager in a global exporting firm, prefers to strictly follow the work schedule designed by the top management team. Despite the flexibility given to him to reschedule certain functions in the marketing department, Robert favors a standardized and structured approach to work. In the context of Geert Hofstede's cultural dimension model, Robert is more likely to score high on:

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Uncertainty avoidance.

Step-by-step explanation:

Social psychologist Geert Hofstede (born in 1928) proposed the Uncertainty Avoidance Index to gauge uncertainty avoidance which is the behavior of an individual that leads to avoiding all risk to the unknown. One of the characteristics in Hofstede's cultural dimensions is that they are not rated as good or bad but high (mostly possible) or low (unlikely to happen).