National culture, human sociality, software of the mind, unwritten rules about how to be a good member of the group
A much-awaited event is the appearance of the official Chinese translation of the bestselling ‘Cultures and Organizations, software of the mind’, 3rd edition by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede and Michael Minkov. A launch event is foreseen for May 10th 2019. We’ll try to keep you posted. Meanwhile, you can keep an eye on your … Read more
Gert Jan took this seven-minute interview when he accepted his extraordinary professorship at North-West University (NWU), he a distributed university in South Africa (previous post at www.geerthofstede.com). He answers questions about his work on artificial sociality and about safety culture. This latter topic is one of the spearheads of the centre for risk management of … Read more
Risk culture The Centre for Applied Risk Management at North-West University in Johannesburg supports the industry in South Africa. It investigates both the technical and the social aspects of risk management, as well as their interactions. This implies a focus on risk culture, and a systems perspective. Gert Jan’s role Gert Jan’s focus on agent-based … Read more
Hello all of you cross-cultural researchers that want to include Slovenia in your studies. Here is the Slovenian translation of the VSM 2013, thanks to Andreja Terpotec . Thank you Andreja! Some methodological advice Reader, since you are reading this, will you please, please spread the message that no, the VSM is *not* an individual-level questionnaire … Read more
A worthwhile read Here is a worthwhile article By Rosalie Tung and Günther Stahl, for those of you interested in research methodology. Unfortunately, it is not Open Access. I (Gert Jan Hofstede) do not normally quote articles at this place, but this one nicely summarizes where the field is at. Rigour and relevance at odds, … Read more
If you want to model culture in virtual agents, you first need to give them a motivational system. This is what we, a set of researchers in EU-project eCute, did in the study reported here. We created the virtual world of TRAVELLER. The agents in this world have an emotional life driven by status worthiness … Read more
Gert Jan Hofstede is pleased to invite anyone interested to his inaugural address. He will deliver it in the Aula (Auditorium) of Wageningen University on 17 January 2019 at 4PM. This talk marks his appointment as a personal professor of ‘Artificial Sociality’ at the Information Technology group, Social Sciences, Wageningen University. The lecture will be … Read more
As of 17 May 2018, Gert Jan was appointed personal professor of Artificial Sociality at Wageningen University. A ‘personal professor’ at Wageningen is a full professor academically, without management role. This appointment is an acknowledgement of the scientific value of Gert Jan’s work on modelling social life. To know more, read his vision on artificial sociality here: … Read more
Social life from a distance If you look at social life from a distance, humans are like huge colonies of ants following rather simple rules. These rules are about status and power. Our social world is a status-power arena: people give status to those they love, repect, or fear, and they use power on those … Read more