POWER DISTANCE

- less powerful members accept that power is distributed unequally
- highly negative for organizational progress, 
- participation and empowerment of employees and overall organizational health
-  is highly correlated to collectivism 

HIGH POWER DISTANCE

-people are blindly obey the superiors.
-  superiors are given the rights to control over their subordinates.
- employees does not able to give the chance to suggest any decisions about the progression of an organization.

- communication : vertically downward with no horizontal communication.
- it gives more gap of communication between superiors and employees.

DISADVANTAGE OF HIGH POWER DISTANCE

- The quality of decisions become poorer because of lower input from employees -
-  can lead to unethical behaviour among the superiors. 
- The effect is very high especially to the employees 
- The superiors tend to micromanage and even minor decisions go to the top. -
- They tend to control every facet of human life including HRM practises 

 LOW POWER DISTANCE

- It is in flatter structure (employees are independent from the superiors). 
- They does not have to obey 100% on superiors. 
-The power are distributed equally among the superiors and employees. 
-Decentralized authority (less care about the status and the employees can take part in decision making.)
 -Can be called as open door policy (power is distributed equally among the superiors and employees.

ADVANTAGES OF LOW POWER DISTANCE

- the employees can work with the superiors in comfortable environment  
- less stress among the employees as the superiors
- unethical behaviour will be less 
-the quality of the decisions is higher

HIGH POWER DISTANCE IN RUSSIA

- power holders are very distant

- scoring 93%

- extremely centralized

- 2/3 of foreign investor go into Moscow

- 80% financial concentration is being focused

- behaviour reflect on the status role in all real of business

- more powerful people are more important in status symbol

- approach in top down and provide  clear mandates of any task

LOW POWER DISTANCE IN UK

- Society beliefs that inequalities among people should be minimized

- PD index lower in high class rather than in working class

- PDI score is incongruent with well established and historical British class system

- Expose on inherent tension in British culture

- Fair play drives whereby people shoud be treated equally