National Culture Dimension: A review of precepts affecting the Nigerian management context
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2016
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Department of Business Administration, College of Management Sciences, Al-Hikmah University Ilorin, Kwara State
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With the recent advocacy for intensified foreign investments in the country's economy by the current democratic administration, the need for the understanding of the differences in workforce according to the vast contexts that organizations operate within and the influence of the various levels of the national culture on their activities is pertinent for the survival of these businesses in Nigeria. The recent development among organizational behaviorists have shown that the notion of "one size fits all" in management practices may not be true for everybody. Because, every organization has its own culture, however, they cannot be devoid from the fact that they are still the products of the national culture of the context they exist within. This paper explores the influence of national culture on management practices, with a review of precepts from Hofstede's research on national culture as a basis for a conceptual discussion of the Nigerian business context in relation to three precepts from Hofstede's five national culture precepts on Nigeria i.e. power distance (PD), collectivism-individualism, gender egalitarianism (masculinity), uncertainty avoidance and future orientation.
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Diversity, National Culture, Human Resource practices, Globalization
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Isiaka, S. B., Abdullahi A. S. & Omolabi, I. (2016). National culture dimension. A Review of Precepts Affecting the Nigerian Management context. 1(1) 82–94. Published by Department of Business Administration, College of Management Sciences, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State. Available online at https://www.alhikmah.edu.ng/amr/index.php/amr/article/view/1