Uncertainty Avoidance Analysis

Thuy Nim Uncertainty Avoidance

• The Avoidance of Uncertainty
- According to the IBM study, Britain and Germany scored 35 on PDI, 66 on MAS. However, Britain’s IDV is higher than Germany’s, which is 89 versus 67.
- They have a big difference in UA results.
- March, American organization sociology, once said: “All human beings have to face the fact that we do not know what will happen tomorrow: the future is uncertain, but we have to live with it anyway.”
- Ways to relieve the worry in societies:
• Technology “helps to avoid uncertainties caused by nature.”
• Laws and rules “prevent uncertainties in the behavior of other people.”
• Religion “helps to accept the uncertainties one cannot defend oneself against.”
- The nature

It could be “a need for written and unwritten rules.”
- Countries with very high UA score are Latin American, Latin Europe, and the Mediterranean.
- Countries with medium-high UA score are German-speaking countries, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.
- Countries with medium to low UA score happen in all Asian countries (except Korean and Japan), Africa, the Anglo, Nordic countries, and the Netherlands.

• Uncertainty Avoidance and Anxiety
- Anxiety is “being uneasy or worried about what may happen.”
- Anxiety differs than fear.
- Anxiety doesn’t have an object, but fear does.
- Countries with low UA, the rate of anxiety is low.
- According to Lynn study, more people live in low UA countries died from coronary heart disease. Because anxiety is an expressive culture; so, people in these countries tend not to show much aggression and emotions in activities; it has to keep internally. From time to time, it might cause heart disease.
- There is a low alcohol consumption rate in these countries with low UA.
- In high UA, people ten to be “ busy, fidget, emotional, aggressive, suspicious.”
- In low UA, people tend to be “dull, quiet, easy going, indolent, controlled,

- A risk is “a percentage of probability that a particular event may happen.”
- High avoiding uncertainties countries tend to search for structures in their societies, relations for events to understand and expectable.
- High UA, people tend to drive faster (with a sense of stress and urgency).

• Uncertainty Avoidance According to Occupation, Gender, and Age.
- We can't apply UAI to measure an aspect of occupations and Gender.
- However, there is a relationship between UAI and average age.
- In countries where employees are elders, there are more rules in organizations, stress, and people intend to stay for a more extended period.

• Uncertainty Avoidance in the Family
- For high UAI countries, a classification for “what is dirty and dangerous are tight and absolute.”
- In high UAI countries, the strict systems of rules and norms make children feel more guilty.
- The families in high UA countries are more stressful than low UA families.
- For low UAI countries, there is a less precise classification of dirt and danger. "Rules are more flexible, superegos weaker." And, the experience is encouraged.
- The families in low UA countries are more relaxed than high