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The author conducts an empirical research on Chinese performance on Hofstede’s five dimensions in this thesis.Hofstede’s Values Survey Module 1994(VSM94)survey instrument is adopted by a sample of 200 Chinese employees of two international companies,Intel and EY to measure personal values.The author compares the personal values of global company employees in China today with Chinese national culture dimensions which were first identified by Hofstede and the results are very different from Hofstede’s conclusions whose data was collected from 1984 to 1996.According to Hofstede,China is a strongly collectivist,“above average”masculine,high power distance,low uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation country while the findings of this study is that China has changed to strongly individualistic,strongly feminine,low power distance,high uncertainty avoidance and short-term oriented.The result can to some extent reflect the changed Chinese culture and can serve as the guidance in human resource management.
The author conducts an empirical research on Chinese performance on Hofstede’s five dimensions in its thesis. Hoffstede’s Values Survey Module 1994 (VSM94) survey instrument is adopted by a sample of 200 Chinese employees of two international companies, Intel and EY to measure personal values. author comparable the personal values of global company employees in China today with Chinese national culture dimensions which were first identified by Hofstede and the results are very different from Hofstede’s conclusions whose data was collected from 1984 to 1996.According to Hofstede, China is a strongly collectivist , “above average ” masculine, high power distance, low power avoid, long-term orientation country while the findings of this study is that China has changed to strongly individualistic, strongly feminine, low power distance, high uncertainty avoidance and short- term oriented.The result can to some extent reflect the changed Chinese culture and can serve as the guidance in human resource management.