This activity is important because you are likely to work with people of different cultural backgrounds or have a foreign work experience. Culture affects how people work, and can impact job performance and citizenship behavior. The most well$-$known taxonomy of cultural values includes five dimensions: individualism$-$collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity$-$femininity, and short$-$term orientation vs$.$ long$-$term orientation.

The goal of this activity is to demonstrate your knowledge of Hofstede$$s cultural taxonomy by matching company descriptions to each cultural dimension.