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. 2012 Mar 5;367(1589):692–703. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0304

Table 3.

Global variation in collectivism from the global leadership and organizational behaviour effectiveness research project [23].

country collectivisma clusterb
Philippines 6.36 A
Georgia 6.19 A
Iran 6.03 A
India 5.92 A
Turkey 5.88 A
Morocco 5.87 A
Zambia 5.84 A
Ecuador 5.81 A
China 5.80 A
Kuwait 5.80 A
Albania 5.74 A
Colombia 5.73 A
Mexico 5.71 A
Thailand 5.70 A
Indonesia 5.68 A
Egypt 5.64 A
Singapore 5.64 A
Guatemala 5.63 A
Russia 5.63 A
Taiwan 5.59 A
Zimbabwe 5.57 A
Nigeria 5.55 A
South Korea 5.54 A
Venezuela 5.53 A
Poland 5.52 A
Malaysia 5.51 A
Portugal 5.51 A
Argentina 5.51 A
Bolivia 5.47 A
Spain 5.45 A
Slovenia 5.43 A
El Salvador 5.35 A
Costa Rica 5.32 B
Hong Kong 5.32 B
Greece 5.27 B
Kazakhstan 5.26 B
Hungary 5.25 B
Brazil 5.18 B
Ireland 5.14 B
South Africa (Black sample) 5.09 B
Italy 4.94 B
Austria 4.85 B
Qatar 4.71 B
Israel 4.70 B
Japan 4.63 B
Namibia 4.52 B
Germany (former German Democratic Republic (GDR)-East) 4.52 B
South Africa (White sample) 4.50 B
France 4.37 B
Canada (English-speaking) 4.26 C
USA 4.25 C
Australia 4.17 C
England 4.08 C
Finland 4.07 C
Germany (former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)-West) 4.02 C
Switzerland 3.97 C
French Switzerland 3.85 C
Netherlands 3.70 C
New Zealand 3.67 C
Sweden 3.66 C
Denmark 3.53 C

aHigher scores indicate more collectivism (GLOBE ingroup collectivism, practice scale). Countries are ranked according to mean scores.

bClusters are calculated according to the formula 2 × SED (standard error of difference), where SED is a function of the reliability of the scale of interest (see House et al. [24] for more information).