Choose one of the frameworks for categorizing and comparing cultures from your reading. Summarize the framework and its main components for categorizing culture. Explain how you may implement this framework in a current or future professional setting. Explain the potential strengths and pitfalls of using this framework within your professional setting.

The Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck framework identifies six dimensions of culture, problems that all societies face. The framework then offers three ways in which the society can handle that problem. By determining how a society handles each problem, you can learn a lot about their culture. This framework allows you to see where the society is coming from, so you can respond to their worldview, and not commit an intercultural mistake. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s framework was revolutionary since it conceptualized the idea of cultural variation. The framework also allows all solutions to be present in a society, but ranks them in order of preference.

Take the “Relationships Among People” problem as an example of the framework’s application. The framework offers the following three options for dealing with this problem: (1) The greatest concern and responsibility is for one’s self and immediate family (individualist), (2) for one’s own group that is defined in different ways (collateral), or (3) for one’s groups that are arranged in a rigid hierarchy (hierarchal). If you are interviewing to work at a firm that puts an emphasis on group work, you can assume the firm adheres to the collateral solution. Knowing this, you can tailor your interview responses to the firm’s worldview: You should focus on talking about your work on teams, as opposed to your individual work (which would be the individualist solution).

A potential strength of this framework is that there are limited solutions to choose from, which makes it