Dysfunctional working environments are found everywhere, but they are not alike. You'd find quite different approaches in US, Japan, Italy and Sweden, for example. In all these countries, the operating environments of corporations are essentially similar on paper, but the praxis is totally different due to local factors and history (e.g. the state of the society when modernization began).

I agree with other commenters that "Europe" is not such a culturally homogenous region that this generalization would be warranted, though.