Cultural efficiencies : exploring the main differences in cultural dimensions that drive performance

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to explore which behaviors, norms and acts in culture of organizations are related with characteristics of national culture of countries and how these are linked with macroeconomic performance. This research has adopted an exploratory approach to explore which different characteristics of national culture have an impact on macroeconomic performance. It includes as well a qualitative relationship between national culture and organizational culture. In Section III of the present paper work the lecturer will be introduced to a macroeconomic comparison among countries. The conclusion through this comparison is that countries of North America have more stable institutions, have a steadily growth in GDP per capita and a more distributed income compared with Latin American countries. In this section is also included an analysis at a company level that shows a big concentration of high performance companies in North America. Section IV of the present study includes an explanation of the most known authors that studied national and organizational culture and made frameworks of it. It is also included a qualitative comparison of various authors and it is concluded that some of the dimensions of organizational culture of Human Synergistics have a parallelism with Hofstede’s National Culture Dimensions. In Section V results are shown at a national level and at an organizational level. Correlation analysis has been made using scores of Hofstede’s National Culture and GDP per capita among several countries. The results from these statistical analyses are that GDP per capita appear to be linked in a negative way with Hofstede’s dimensions of power distance and in a positive way to Individualism. At an organizational level, are shown the results of a survey that has been made through three assessments of Human Synergistics from 17 employees in an argentine company. Similarly, the results of the data collected from the assessments shows that the company in Argentina has low average scores in the power distance and individualism styles.