Editing Power distance (section)

=== Mulder ===
Another major study of power distance was done by Mauk Mulder.<ref name="Mulder">{{Cite book|last1=Mulder|first1=Mauk |year=1977 |title=The Daily Power Game |series=International series on the quality of working life |publisher=Martinus Nihoff Social Sciences Division|location=Leiden, the Netherlands |isbn=978-1-4684-6953-0 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4684-6951-6}}</ref> It was based on the premise that as societies become weaker in power distance, the underprivileged will tend to reject their power dependency. Mulder's laboratory experiments in the social and organizational context of the Netherlands, a low power distance culture, concluded that people attempted to seek "power distance reduction".<ref name="Mulder" /> He found that:
* More privileged individuals tend to try to preserve or to broaden their power distance from subordinates.
* The larger their power distance is from a subordinate, the more the power holder tends to try to increase that distance.
* Less powerful individuals try to decrease the power distance between themselves and their superiors.
* The smaller the power distance, the more likely it is that less powerful individuals will try to reduce that distance.