Hofstede (1994) defined the cultural dimension of power distance as "the extent
to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country
expect and accept that power is distributed unequally" (p. 28). The dimension responds to
how a society deals with levels of status or social power. Areas of inequality include
physical characteristics, social prestige, position, wealth, power, and rights or rules. They
can manifest in places such as work, politics, social norms, or school (Hofstede, 1994). Hofstede and Hofstede (2005) developed a power distance index (PDI) from the mean
scores of Hofstede's IBM research and composed country PDI scores, which