Characteristics include:

• Anglo - competitive and result-oriented
• Confucian Asia - result-driven, encourage group working together over individual goals
• Eastern Europe - forceful, supportive of co-workers, treat women with equality
• Germanic Europe - value competition & aggressiveness and are more result-oriented
• Latin America - loyal & devoted to their families and similar groups
• Latin Europe - value individual autonomy
• Middle East - devoted & loyal to their own people, women afforded less status
• Nordic Europe - high priority on long-term success, women treated with greater equality
• Southern Asia - strong family & deep concern for their communities
• Sub-Sahara Africa - concerned & sensitive to others, demonstrate strong family loyalty (Northouse, 2007, p.309-313).