ABSTRACT
Geert Hofstede is a Dutch social psychologist that conducted the first, and one of the most comprehensive studies, of how values in the workplace are influenced by the national culture. In the late 1980s and influenced by Geert Hofstede's culture study, Michael Harris Bond sought the help of Chinese colleagues to develop a list of basic values of Chinese people which became know as the Chinese Value Survey (CVS) questionnaire. To make sense of the information, researcher's grouped related behaviours under logical categories know as cultural dimensions', cultural orientations' or value orientations'. As anthropologists, social scientists and social psychologists explored the norms and behaviour of groups and nations, they came to identify certain commonalities in the way societies behave in a similar manner. These similarities of behaviour are driven by a set of values that the various societies have developed over generations.
