What is the remote index?

The Power-Distance Index (PDI) is a concept invented by Geert Hofstede, a prominent Dutch social psychologist of the 21st century. The central idea may apply to any organizational structure for human activity, whether in business or society overall, and is designed to measure the effects that occur if the wealth and power are unevenly distributed. The illustrations on which the power index focuses on remotely is how many subordinate groups are given to authority data as a direct result of how the group's authoritarian leaders are in managing their activities. The PDI has been applied to social behavior in many modern countries and tends to be a much lower number in countries where there is extensive cooperation between authorities and everyday citizens concerning important decision -making activities. Companies that support individual values ​​such as the US and Western European nations haveHigher PDI cultural levels than collective values, such as Tai -Wan and other Asian nations. These trends towards equality views in culture also relate to the national level where Denmark is a company to share power with a very low PDI 18, and the US is one of the more stratification of PDI 40.

In the corporate hierarchy, lower remote index reflects the fact that lower -level employees feel that they have the right to approach the head of society in informal situations and expect to be treated equally, which is common in many Western companies. A country with more autocratic or feudalist structures such as Thailand or Pakistans, but if a manager is considered outside the limits in all respects to everyday workers. The leader of the company in the nation where there is a high index of power can also find that he is immune to questioning the daily government officeEdles like the police, because there is a feeling that the company's manager is above the law, and this can contribute to the rooted level of corruption of society.

National level is considered to be a relatively average index of distance in distance 35, which has been quite average and represents a society where the gap between rich and poor is modest and cultural beliefs in equality for all are strong. Nations in which the index shows a high level of difference in wealth levels and power among author's characters and lack of representation for the needs of an ordinary man or woman are Mexico, with rating 81 and India, with an assessment of 77. The 70 power index, and the Netherlands, where Hofstede is alone, has a PDI 38 since 2009.