Article (Journal/Review)
Individualism-collectivism and business context as predictors of behaviors in cross-national work settings: incidence and outcomes
Fecha
2011-07Registro en:
0304-4076 / 1872-6895
10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.001
000293051200006
Yanchuk, Vladimir/0000-0002-4524-8371; Donoso-Maluf, Francisco/0000-0003-3984-721X
Yanchuk, Vladimir/I-1344-2017
Autor
Smith, Peter B.
Torres, Claudio V.
Hecker, Julia
Chua, Chei Hwee
Chudzikova, Alena
Degirmencioglu, Serdar
Donoso-Maluf, Francisco
Feng, Nancy Chen Yi
Harb, Charles
Jackson, Brad
Malvezzi, Sigmar
Mogaji, Andrew
Arnuncio Pastor, Juan Carlos
Perez-Floriano, Lorena
Srivastava, B. N.
Stahl, Guenter
Thomason, Stephanie
Yanchuk, Vladimir
Institución
Resumen
Brief descriptions of cross-national problem events by 1349 organizational employees from many nations were content analyzed. Contrasts between individualistic and collectivistic behaviors were much more strongly predicted by variations in business context (e.g., language spoken and hierarchical relations between the parties involved) than by a measure of nation-level in-group collectivism practices. Respondents from individualist nations emphasized performance goals and task focus, whereas those from collectivist nations emphasized personal aspects of work relations more strongly. Task-focused behavioral responses to problems were uniformly associated with positive outcome, whereas the outcome of emotional responses interacted significantly with individualism-collectivism practices. The results are interpreted in terms of collectivists' greater attention to context. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.