| Because of a lack of empirical research there has been a paucity of information about the extent to which Puerto Rican work-related dimensions of national culture have been impacted by U.S. cultural values. In the present study, Puerto Rican work-related values were quantified by utilizing Hofstede's 1994 Values Survey Module (Power Distance, Individualism-Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Masculinity-Femininity, and Long-Term Orientation). Samples were matched on demographic variables from 103 employees working for the same multinational finance company with similar operations in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Cultural dimensional scores obtained from Mexico were used to calibrate the results from Puerto Rico with Hofstede's findings for comparability. Results indicated that there are significant differences in cultural dimensional indices between Puerto Rico and the U.S. The indices of Puerto Rican respondents more closely resembled those of Latin American countries than of the U.S. Despite over a century of U.S. rule and government-led initiatives to culturally assimilate Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans continue to see themselves, as depicted through Hofstede's cultural dimensional indices, as a culture rather distinct from the U.S. |
