In our last post we provided a report discussing definitions of culture for purposes of cross-cultural studies.  In this post we begin a short series of reports on various attempts to suggest cultural dimensions that researchers believe can be used as an effective means for comparing and distinguishing characteristics of societal or national cultures.  This report introduces the "Seven Dimensions of Culture" defined by Trompenaars and hampden-Turner based on an extensive database with over 30,000 survey results collected during the course of multiple studies involving questionnaires sent to thousands of managers in 28 countries.