Power distance Sample Clauses

Power distance. ‌ PD could be a troublesome problem when the people with low PD go into a new circumstance with high PD. It does not only exist in bureaus and firms, but also in schools. In lower PD culture, people are more relaxed in a comfortable environment and harmonious atmosphere, which is good for employees to improve efficiency. However, in the high PD culture, the high power hierarchy gives people much pressures and lots of complains. Workers are depressed by limited channels of communication and spaces for their emotions, they have relatively low efficiency. since you can image that the voices of the bottom has to go through a long distance and can hardly reach to the high management, this process takes time and is with low efficiency. The opinions and ideas of the lower level cannot be reflected to the top and thus the workers would not be satisfied with the current situations. When it comes to universities and educational cooperation cross borders, the problems become more serious. In Norwegian society, the hierarchy structure is quite flat and power distance is very low. The reason behind this is that people in Norway have strong sense of equality and in the organizations, they have enough freedom to express their ideas and feelings. In the work places Norwegians are not satisfied with the imbalance of power distribution and hate to be ignored. Even the smallest individuals should be heard by others, the top of the management also would like to listen to the bottom and make changes when necessary. They also believe that flat organizational structure is good for management and with high efficiency. As a member of this society, UiN definitely has low hierarchy, the management, professors and students enjoy a very casual relations and get used to it. People within the school like the equal distribution of power, no one is superior to others and everyone has equal right to others directly. However, China is on another end of teeterboard, the PD is very high. This has much to do with China’s traditions and history. Since China had been feudal society for more than 2400 years, during that period, our ancestors had built sound feudal hierarchy which was vertical and high. Even the new China has changed a lot of that kind system, it still exists in every corner of society. Bureaucratism and sense of hierarchy are still rooted deeply in people’s mind. The distribution of power within organizations are problematic, the bottom have very little power and huge responsibil...