Open AccessE-working: Country Versus Culture Dimension
Author(s) -
Michal Beňo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
agris on-line papers in economics and informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1804-1930
DOI - 10.7160/aol.2021.130202
Subject(s) - hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , index (typography) , cultural diversity , diversity (politics) , creativity , uncertainty avoidance , globalization , dimension (graph theory) , indulgence , sociology , demographic economics , psychology , social psychology , political science , economics , collectivism , anthropology , computer science , individualism , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , world wide web
Globalisation and increasing digitisation mean that companies must increasingly orientate themselves internationally in order to become (more) competitive or to remain competitive. Promoting e-working can revitalise rural development. The issue involved is always interaction between people from different cultures, between people who, according to their cultural backgrounds, feel, think and act differently. When cultural diversity and differences are taken into account, greater creativity, more diverse ideas and faster problem solving are achieved. The cultural dimensions, according to Geert Hofstede, offer a comprehensive model for capturing the various expressions of intercultural values. This paper examines the motives for applying e-working in selected European countries in 2018 according to Hofstede’s six dimensions of national culture. Twenty-eight countries from the Eurostat database were analysed (Finland and the Netherlands were excluded, and software detected them in the e-working variable as outliers). Correlation with e-working is statistically significant at PDI (power distance index - negative: the lower the PDI index, the higher the proportion of e-working) and IVR index (indulgence versus restraint - positive: the higher the IVR index, the higher the proportion of e-working).