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Societal Culture (societal + culture)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	100%

Selected Abstracts

Individualism,Collectivism and Co-operation: A Cross-Society and Cross-Level Examination

NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010
Hannah-Hanh D. Nguyen
Abstract We examined the influence of Individualism and Collectivism (I,C) on co-operation in workgroups at three levels (societal, organizational, and personal). Data were from 153 American business students representing an individualistic society and 207 Vietnamese counterparts (a collectivistic society). Participants role-played managers for a simulated company with either a collectivistic or individualistic organizational culture in a computerized social-dilemma game. Societal cultures did not moderate the interaction effect between organization-level I,C and person-level Individualism. Those high on individualism pursued their own gains in a dominantly individualistic organizational culture, yet behaving co-operatively in a collectivistic organizational culture. Interestingly, societal cultures moderated the effect of organizational culture on co-operation, such that the positive relationship between organization-level I,C and co-operation was weaker in a collectivistic society (Vietnam) than in an individualistic society (the United States). The results indicate the need for an integrative, cross-level approach to better understand the determinants of co-operation across societies, organizations, and individuals. [source]

International and Cultural Variations in Employee Assistance Programmes: Implications for Managerial Health and Effectiveness*

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 2 2007
Rabi S. Bhagat
abstract While employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are becoming commonplace in large Western organizations, little is known regarding their prevalence in non-Western cultures. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the prevalence of EAPs in four distinct cells of societal culture-based variations. A cultural matrix for analysing the relative emphases of styles of coping, social support systems, rites and rituals, and the prevalence of EAPs is developed. The implications for managerial health and effectiveness in the global context are discussed. [source]

Organization and Management in the Third Sector: Toward a Cross-Cultural Research Agenda

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, Issue 1 2002
David Lewis
Third sector organizations in the industrialized and the developing world,and particularly the subset of third sector organizations known as development nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),are becoming more culturally diverse in internal staff composition, management styles, and working environments. Although cultural issues have been largely absent from the nonprofit and the NGO research literatures, the organizational implications of societal culture and organizational culture are widely debated within other research fields. This article proposes a closer engagement between third sector management research and the wider study of cross-cultural organizational issues within anthropology, development studies, and management theory. It argues that such an exchange is necessary if third sector organizational research agendas are to include changing organizational landscapes effectively, and the article concludes with some ideas for future research. [source]