Critical managerial motivational factors: A cross cultural analysis of four culturally divergent countries

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 251-267

  Mathur, Anil ^a,b   Zhang, Yong ^a,b   Neelankavil, James P ^a,b  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural influences; Human resource strategies in international companies; International managerial issues; Issues of cultural diversity; Managerial motivational factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346114790     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147059580113001     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Adler, N.J. (1983) 'Cross-cultural Management Research; The Ostrich and the Trend', Academy of Management Review 8: 226-32.
2. Adler, N.J. and Jelinek, M. (1986) 'Is Organization Culture Bound?', Human Resource Management 25: 73-90.
3. Alderfer, C.P. (1969) 'An Empirical Test of a New Theory of Human Needs', Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 4: 142-75.
4. Alpander, G.G. (1984) 'Comparative Study of the Motivational Environment Surrounding First-line supervisors in Three Countries', Columbia Journal of World Business 19: 95-103.
5. Alpander, G.G. and Carter, K.D. (1991) 'Strategic Multinational Intra-company Differences in Employee Motivation', Journal of Managerial Psychology 6(2): 25-32.
6. Atkinson, J.S. (1964) An Introduction to Motivation. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.
7. Aycan, Z., Kanungo, R.N., Mendonca, M., Yu, K., Deller, J., Stahl, G. and Kurshid, A. (2000) 'Impact of Culture on Human Resource Management Practices: A 10-country Comparison', Applied Psychology: An International Review 49(1): 192-221.
8. Badawy, M.K. (1979) 'Managerial Attitudes and Need Orientations of Mid-Eastern Executives: An Empirical Cross-cultural Analysis', Proceedings of the Academy of Management 293-7.
9. Berger, K.A., Stern, B.B. and Johansson, J.K. (1983) 'Strategic Implications of Cross-cultural Comparison of Attribute Importance: Automobiles in Japan and the United States', in Proceedings of the American Marketing Association Educators' Conference, pp. 327-32. Chicago: American Marketing Association.
10. Bhagwati, J. and Desai, P. (1970) India: Planning for Industrialization. London: Oxford University Press.
11. Bigoness, W.J. and Blakely, G.L. (1996) 'A Cross-national Study of Managerial Values', Journal of International Business Studies 27(4): 739-52.
12. Black, J.S. and Porter, L.W. (1991) 'Managerial Behaviors and Job Performance: A Successful Manager in Los Angeles may not Succeed in Hong Kong', Journal of International Business Studies 22(1): 99-113.
13. Chakraborty, S.K. (1991) Management by Values - Towards Cultural Congruence. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
14. Earley, P.C. and Gibson, B.C. (1998) 'Taking Stock in our Progress on Individualism & Collectivism: 100 Years of Solidarity and Community', Journal of Management 24(3): 265-305.
15. England, G.W. and Lee, R. (1974) 'The Relationship Between Managerial Values and Managerial Success in the United States, Japan, India, and Australia', Journal of Applied Psychology 59: 411-19.
16. Erez, M. and Earley, P.C. (1987) Culture, Self-identity, and Work. New York: Oxford University Press.
17. Farh, J.L., Earley, P.C. and Liu, S. (1997) 'Impetus for Action: A Cultural Analysis of Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Chinese Society', Administrative Science Quarterly 42(3): 421-45.
18. Garg, P.K. and Parikh, I.J. (1986) 'Managers and Corporate Cultures: The Case of Indian Organizations', Management International Review 26(3): 50-66.
19. Heiskanen, Tuula A. (1985) 'How Steel Workers in Different Countries See Their Work', Journal of Occupational Behavior 6: 273-92.
20. Ho, D. (1979) 'Psychological Implications of Collectivism: with Special Reference to the Chinese Case and Maoist Dialectics', in L. Eckensberger, W. Lonner and Y. Poortinga (eds) Cross-cultural Contributions to Psychology. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.
21. Hofstede, Geert (1980) 'Motivation, Leadership, and Organization: Do American Theories Apply Abroad?', Organizational Dynamics 9: 42-63.
22. Hofstede, Geert (1983) 'The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories', Journal of International Business Studies 14(2): 75-89.
23. Hofstede, Geert (1994) 'Management Scientists Are Human', Management Science 40(1): 4-13.
24. Howard, A., Shudo, K. and Umeshima, M. (1983) 'Motivation and Values among Japanese and American Managers', Personnel Psychology 36(Winter): 883-98.
25. Hsu, F.L.K. (1981) American and Chinese: Passage to Differences. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
26. Hudson, D.R. and Ruiz, J.Q. (1983) 'A Personal Values Assessment of Mexican MBAs', Academy of International Business Mexico City, April.
27. Johnson, R.A., Neelankavil, J.P. and Jadhav, A. (1986) 'Developing the Executive Resource', Business Horizons 29(6): 29-33.
28. Jones, S. (1989) 'Merchants of the Raj', Management Accounting - London 67(8): 32-5.
29. Laurent, A. (1983) 'The Cultural Diversity of Western Management Conceptions', International Studies of Management and Organizations 8: 75-96.
30. Laurent, A. (1986) 'The Cross-cultural Puzzle of International Human Resource Management', Human Resources Management 25(1): 91-102.
31. Leung, K. (1989) 'Cross-cultural Differences: Individual-level and Cultural-level Analysis', International Journal of Psychology 24: 703-19.
32. Li, D.J. (1978) The Ageless Chinese. New York: Charles Scribners.
33. Locke, E.A., Shaw, K.N., Saari, L.M. and Latham, G.P. (1981) 'Goal Setting and Task Performance: 1969-1980', Psychological Bulletin 90:125-52.
34. Loevinger, J. (1976) Ego Development: Conceptions and Theories. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
35. Maslow, Abraham H. (1943) 'A Theory of Human Motivations', Psychological Review 50: 370-96.
36. Newman, K.L. and Nollen, S.D. (1996) 'Culture and Congruence: The Fit between Management Practice and National Culture', Journal of International Business Studies 27(4): 753-79.
37. Oh, T.K. (1976) 'Theory Y in the People's Republic of China', California Management Review (19): 77-84.
38. Reitz, H.J. (1975) 'The Relative Importance of Five Categories of Needs Among Industrial Workers in Eight Countries', Proceedings of the Academy of Management 270-2.
39. Sinha, Jai B.P. and Kanungo, R.N. (1997) 'Context Sensitivity and Balancing in Indian Organizational Behavior', International Journal of Psychology 32(2): 93-105
40. Spence, J. (1985) 'Achievement American Style: The Rewards and Costs of Individualism', American Psychologist 40(12): 1285-95.
41. Tiglao, R. (1992) 'Focus: Philippines - New, Upwardly Mobile Tycoons', Far Eastern Economic Review 155(35): 44-5.
42. Triandis, H.C. (1989) 'The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts', Psychological Review 96(3): 506-20.
43. Triandis, H.C. (1990) 'Cross-cultural Studies of Individualism and Collectivism', in J. Berman (ed) Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
44. Triandis, H.C. (1995) Individualism and Collectivism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
45. Van de Vijver, F. and Kwok Leung (1997) Methods and Data Analysis for Cross-cultural Research, Thomas Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
46. Wagner, J. and Moch, M.K. (1986) 'Individualism-Collectivism: Concept and Measure', Group & Organization Studies 11(3): 280-304.
47. Welge, M.K. (1994) 'A Comparison of Managerial Structures of German Subsidiaries in France, India, and the United States', Management International Review 34(Special Issue): 33-49.