The effect of organisational culture and leadership style on job satisfaction and organisational commitment: A cross-national comparison

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-338

  Lok, Peter ^a   Crawford, John ^b  

^a Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Job commitment; Job satisfaction; Leadership; National cultures; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 23644432021     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621710410529785     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Angle, H. (1981), "An empirical assessment of organisational commitment and organisational effectiveness", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 1-14.
2. Bass, B. (1990), Bass and Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership, Free Press, New York, NY.
3. Benkhoff, B. (1997), "Disentangling organisational commitment: The changes of the OCQ for research and policy", Personnel Review, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 114-20.
4. Chen, M. (2001), Asian Management Systems, Thomson, London.
5. Chen, Z.X. and Francesco, A.M. (2000), "Employee demography, organizational commitment, and turnover intentions in China: Do cultural differences matter?", Human Relations, Vol. 3 No. 6, pp. 869-87.
6. Cheng, B.S. (1995), "'Chaxugeju' (differential mode of association) and Chinese organizational behaviour", in Yang, K.S. (Ed.), Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Society, Vol. 3, pp. 142-219.
7. Collins, J. and Porras, J. (1996), Built to Last, Random House, London.
8. Conger, J. and Kanungo, R. (1988), Charismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA.
9. Deal, T. and Kennedy, A. (1982), A Corporate Culture, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
10. El Kahal, S. (2001), Business in Asia Pacific, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
11. Goffee, R. and Jones, G. (1998), The Character of a Corporation, Harper Business, London.
12. Hansen, G. and Wernerfelt, B. (1989), "Determinants of firm performance: The relative impact of economic and organizational factors", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 399-411.
13. Hofstede, G. (1980), Culture's Consequences, Newbury, New York, NY.
14. Hofstede, G. (1991), Culture and Organizations: Software of the Mind, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
15. Iverson, R. and Roy, P. (1994), "A causal model of behavioural commitment: Evidence from a study of Australian blue-collar employees", Journal of Management, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 15-41.
16. Knight, J. and Shi, L. (1996), "Educational attainment and the rural-urban divide in China", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 58 No. 1, pp. 83-117.
17. Laschinger, H. (2001), "The impact of workplace commitment, organizational trust on staff nurses' work satisfaction and organizational commitment", Health Care Management Review, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 7-24.
18. Lok, P. and Crawford, J. (1999), "The relationship between commitment and organizational culture, subcultures, leadership styles, job satisfaction in organizational change and development", Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, Vol. 20 No. 7, pp. 365-73.
19. Lok, P. and Crawford, J. (2001), "Antecedents of organizational commitment and the mediating role of job satisfaction", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 16 No. 8, pp. 594-613.
20. Malone, T. (1997), "Is empowerment just a fad? control decision making and IT", Sloan Management Review, pp. 23-35.
21. Manz, C. and Sims, H. (1991), "Superleadership: Beyond the myth of heroic leadership", Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 2, pp. 18-35.
22. Martin, J. (1992), Cultures in Organizations - Three Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
23. Mathieu, J. and Zajac, D. (1990), "A review of met-analysis of the antecedents, correlates and consequences of organizational commitment", Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 108 No. 2, pp. 171-94.
24. Michael, P. (1994), "An expanded conceptual framework of organizational commitment and job satisfaction for salesforce management", Journal of Business and Society, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 42-67.
25. Miller, D. (1978), "Career planning and management in organizations", Advance Management Journal, Vol. 43 No. 2, pp. 33-43.
26. Miroshnik, V. (2002), "Culture and international management: A review", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 21 No. 7, pp. 521-44.
27. Mowday, R., Steers, R. and Porter, L. (1979), "The measurement of organizational commitment", Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Vol. 14, pp. 224-7.
28. Peters, T. and Waterman, R. (1982), In Search of Excellence, Harper and Row, London.
29. Phatak, A. (1986), International Dimensions of Management, PWS-Kent, Boston, MA.
30. Pye, L. (1985), Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
31. Redding, G. (1990), The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism, Walter de Gruyter, New York, NY.
32. Riketta, M. (2002), "Attitudinal organizational commitment and job performance: A meta-analysis", Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 23, pp. 257-66.
33. Salancik, G. (1977), "Commitment and the control of organizational behaviour and belief", in Shaw, B.M. and Salancik, G.R. (Eds), New Directions in Organizational Behaviour, St Clare Press, Chicago, IL, pp. 123-35.
34. Sarros, J. and Woodman, D. (1993), "Leadership in Australia and its organizational outcomes", Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 3-9.
35. Schein, E. (1990), "Organizational culture", American Psychologist, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 109-19.
36. Sergiovanni, T. and Corbally, J. (1984), Leadership and Organizational Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
37. Smith, P. and Peterson, M. (1988), Leadership, Organizations and Culture: An Event Management Model, Sage, London.
38. Somers, M. (1995), "Organizational commitment, turnover and absenteeism: An examination of direct and indirect effects", Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Vol. 16, pp. 49-58.
39. Sommer, S., Bae, S. and Luthans, F. (1996), "Organizational commitment across cultures: The impact of antecedents on Korean employees", Human Relations, Vol. 49 No. 7, pp. 977-93.
40. Stogdill, R. (1974), Handbook of Leadership: A Survey of Theory and Research, Free Press, New York, NY.
41. Trice, H. and Beyer, J. (1993), The Culture of Work Organization, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
42. Trompenaars, F. and Hampden-Turner, C. (1998), Riding the Waves of Culture, McGraw Hill, New York, NY.
43. Walder, S. (1995), "China's transitional economy, interpreting its significance", The China Quarterly, Vol. 144, pp. 963-80.
44. Wallach, E. (1983), "Individuals and organization: The cultural match", Training and Development Journal, Vol. 12, pp. 28-36.
45. Warr, P., Cook, J. and Wall, T. (1979), "Scales for the measurement of some work attitude and aspects of psychological well-being", Journal of Occupational Psychology, Vol. 52, pp. 129-48.
46. Westwood, R. and Posner, B. (1997), "Managerial values across cultures: Australia, Hong Kong and the United States", Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol. 14, pp. 31-66.
47. Whitley, R. (1997), European Business Systems, Sage, London.
48. Williams, L. and Hazer, J. (1986), "Antecedents and consequences of satisfaction and commitment in turnover modes: A re-analysis using latent variables structural equation methods", Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 71 No. 2, pp. 219-31.