Cultural Values, Sources of Guidance, and their Relevance to Managerial Behavior
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Cross-national survey reveals cultural values predict reliance on vertical workplace guidance in middle managers across 47 countries, highlighting limits in modeling peer and tacit guidance.
Key Points
- Determine how well cultural value dimensions predict the specific sources of guidance managers rely on when handling workplace events.
- Surveyed middle managers across 47 countries reporting on how they handled eight specific work events.
- Evaluated the predictive capacity of cultural value frameworks established by Hofstede, Trompenaars, and Schwartz against managerial reliance on vertical, peer, and tacit guidance sources.
- Cultural values strongly predicted managerial reliance on sources of guidance governing vertical organizational relationships.
- Cultural values showed limited predictive power for reliance on peer guidance and tacit, informal sources of guidance, indicating a need to account for culture-specific contexts.
Cite This Study
Smith et al. (2002) studied this question.