Question

What are the prevailing attitudes toward time, change, material factors, and individualism for Mexico?

Answer 1

Mexico’s cultural dimensions based on Hofstede’s Insights:

• Power Distance: With a score of 81, Mexico is a staunch believer of power distance and inequality. Stringent differentiation exists between the white collar and the blue-collar employees. Also the organization design of most companies is functional or hierarchical structure.
• Masculinity: Mexico scores a moderate 69 in masculinity. This means it is an evident Masculine society with fewer traits of the feminine side. The dominant feature of its society is about competition. Conflict resolution is done by fighting it out.
• Individualism: Mexico is a collectivistic society with a score of 30 in this dimension. Family and personal tie-ups are most valued in Mexico. Most businesses in Mexico run simply on mutual trust.
• Uncertainty Avoidance (Change): Mexico scores very high in this dimension. A score of 82 means that acceptance to change is minimum in this society. They are very less prone to take risks.
• Long Term Orientation (Time): Mexico has a low score of 24 in this dimension. The culture is mostly normative. People are very traditional and orthodox.
• Indulgence (Material factors): The people of Mexico are high on indulgence with a very high score of 97. They like indulging in social pleasures. They party all night, enjoy life to the fullest.