Scheduling
スケジューリング
Whether plans are fixed and sequential or adapted as things come up.
Scheduling: DE −3, JP −2, NORD −2 (DK −2, SE −2, NO −2), NL −2, US −1, UK −1, FR 0, PL 0, IL† +1, IN +2, BR +2.
No source: South Korea, China, Ukraine
NORD is drawn as a span over its members: DK −2, SE −2, NO −2.
† Placed from reviews and summaries of Meyer's work, not from her own chart.
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) |
|---|---|
| Germany DE | −3 |
| Japan JP | −2 |
| The Nordics NORD | −2 (DK −2, SE −2, NO −2) |
| Netherlands NL | −2 |
| United States US | −1 |
| United Kingdom UK | −1 |
| France FR | 0 |
| Poland PL | 0 |
| Israel IL † | +1 |
| India IN | +2 |
| Brazil BR | +2 |
The two ends
- Left end Linear time
- Work runs in steps, one task at a time, without interruption. Deadlines and the plan come first; organisation beats flexibility.
- Right end Flexible time
- Work is fluid, many things are handled at once, and interruptions are accepted. Adapting beats sticking to the plan.
What it is built from
Whether deadlines, agendas and plans are fixed and worked through in order (linear time), or treated as a starting point that adapts to people and events (flexible time).
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