The power value orientation is to do with the extent to which the less powerful members of a society expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. As Mead indicates (1994:66) it is in this area that a culture shows the extent to which it tolerates and fosters pecking orders, and how actively members try to reduce them
The some cultures, inequality is a given and no attempt is made to make any compensation on a socio-economic level for intellectual or physical inequalities. In other cultures, inequality is regarded as undesirable, necessitating some form of correction through legal, political and economic means.
At work, the level of power and authority are strictly marked out by cultures oriented to hierarchy. There, the employees do their work according to the directives of their boss In their eyes, the role of the manager is to allocate tasks and to take decisions