Disagreeing
見解の相違
Whether open disagreement is seen as productive or as damaging to the relationship.
Disagreeing: IL −3, DE −2, FR −2, NL −2, NORD −1 (DK −1, SE +1), PL −1, US 0, UK 0, IN +1, BR +1, KR +2, CN +2, JP +3.
No source: Ukraine
NORD is drawn as a span over its members: DK −1, SE +1.
Source: Erin Meyer, The Culture Map (2014) and her country mapping charts. Positions are approximate, read off her charts onto a seven-step grid.
Positions as text
| Country or region | Step (−3 to +3) |
|---|---|
| Israel IL | −3 |
| Germany DE | −2 |
| France FR | −2 |
| Netherlands NL | −2 |
| The Nordics NORD | −1 (DK −1, SE +1) |
| Poland PL | −1 |
| United States US | 0 |
| United Kingdom UK | 0 |
| India IN | +1 |
| Brazil BR | +1 |
| South Korea KR | +2 |
| China CN | +2 |
| Japan JP | +3 |
The two ends
- Left end Confrontational
- Disagreement and debate are good for the team. Open confrontation is fine and does not harm the relationship.
- Right end Avoids confrontation
- Disagreement and debate are bad for the team and the relationship. Open confrontation breaks group harmony.
What it is built from
Whether open disagreement is good for the team or damages the relationship, and whether disagreeing with an idea is taken as an attack on the person who proposed it.
Eight scales from Erin Meyer's The Culture Map (2014), built from her interviews and teaching with international managers. She publishes charts, not numbers, so each country is read off her chart onto a coarse seven-step grid. The positions are relative: a country is direct or indirect compared with the others on the line.
Limits: the scales are not a validated survey instrument, the source population is mostly managers in multinational companies, and neighbouring steps are not meaningfully different. How to read these scales