Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures truly brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life.This unique training book contains an abundance of exercises, dialogues, stories and simulations that put the five dimensions of culture (power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long term versus short term orientation) into action. Derived from these five dimensions are what Hofstede calls synthetic cultures: ten pure cultural types.Exploring Culture is arranged to follow the classic culture learning sequence of gaining awareness, knowledge and skills. Part light, part serious, but always thought-provoking, the book provides more than seventy-five activities, dialogues and stories for readers to explore and discuss. Exploring Culture is an outstanding resource for trainers and educators and the perfect complement to Hofstede's popular Cultures and Organizations.

探索文化：练习、故事和综合文化真正将Geert Hofstede的民族文化的五个维度带入生活。这本独特的培训书包含丰富的练习、对话、故事和模拟，将文化的五个维度（权力距离、集体主义与个人主义、，女性气质与男性气质、避免不确定因素以及长期与短期取向）的对比。从这五个维度衍生出霍夫斯泰德所说的综合文化：十种纯文化类型。探索文化的安排遵循了获得意识、知识和技能的经典文化学习顺序。这本书一部分轻松，一部分严肃，但总是发人深省，它为读者提供了七十五种活动、对话和故事供读者探索和讨论。探索文化对于培训师和教育工作者来说是一种杰出的资源，也是霍夫斯泰德流行文化和组织的完美补充。