Poor performance may not result in loss of a job, but may include reassignment of tasks. In group and out-group can be important in business relations, with freinds getting better treatment. In addition, private life is subject to the group, opinions are predetermined by group membership, laws and rights differ by group, low GNP percapita, role of state in dominant in economic system, press controlled by state, imported economic teories are irrelevant, harmony and concensus are ultimate goals. They are characterized by individual and personal characteristics rather than group. The index for this dimension is based on the amount of time available from the job for personal-family development, freedom to adopt individual approaches to the job, and challenge from the job contributing to sense of personal accomplishment.
Individualist countries tend to be rich.
In individualist countries there is more regard for assertiveness, confrontation, truth, and conflict. Social conversation is mandatory compared to collectivist cultures where simple presence is sufficient. Individualist cultures may regulate behavior through guilt by individual conscience. In addition politically, privacy is important, laws emphasize equality, there is high GNP per capita, the role of the state is restrained, economy is based on individual interests, individual freedom prevails over equity, and self actualization is the goal. Cultures can also be described along a gender dimension that is learned.