The Nature of Human Relationships This dimension distinguishes various assumptions about the right way ror people to relate to each other and distribute power and love. It resembles Parson's(1951) and Stewart's(1971) sell and group orientation. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck(1961) distinguished between individualistic and competitive(US). collateral and group cooperative(japan), and linear, hierarchical and authoritarian(Latin countries) cultures. Hofstede's(1980) dimensions of power distance' identified a related variable. Stewart also referred to hierarchical rclationships. Schein(1992) referred to a number of ways authority can be used and what level of participation is expected: autocrative, paternalistic, consultative or democratic, participative and power sharing, delegative and abdicative.