Cultural values, sources of guidance, and their relevance to managerial behavior: A 47-nation study

Peter B. Smith; Mark F. Peterson; Shalom H. Schwartz; Abd Halim Ahmad; Debo Akande; Jon Aarum Andersen; Sabino Ayestaran; Stephen Bochner; Victor Callan; Carlos Davila; Bjorn Ekelund; Pierre Henri François; Gert Graversen; Charles Harb; Jorge Jesuino; Aristotle Kantas; Lyudmila Karamushka; Paul Koopman; Kwok Leung; Pavla Kruzela; Sigmar Malvezzi; Andrew Mogaji; Shahrenaz Mortazavi; John Munene; Ken Parry; Betty Jane Punnett; Mark Radford; Arja Ropo; Jose Saiz; Grant Savage; Bernadette Setiadi; Ritch Sorenson; Erna Szabo; Punyacha Teparakul; Aqeel Tirmizi; Sevda Tsvetanova; Conrad Viedge; Carolyn Wall; Vladimir Yanchuk

doi:10.1177/0022022102033002005

Cultural values, sources of guidance, and their relevance to managerial behavior: A 47-nation study

Peter B. Smith^*, Mark F. Peterson, Shalom H. Schwartz, Abd Halim Ahmad, Debo Akande, Jon Aarum Andersen, Sabino Ayestaran, Stephen Bochner, Victor Callan, Carlos Davila, Bjorn Ekelund, Pierre Henri François, Gert Graversen, Charles Harb, Jorge Jesuino, Aristotle Kantas, Lyudmila Karamushka, Paul Koopman, Kwok Leung, Pavla KruzelaSigmar Malvezzi, Andrew Mogaji, Shahrenaz Mortazavi, John Munene, Ken Parry, Betty Jane Punnett, Mark Radford, Arja Ropo, Jose Saiz, Grant Savage, Bernadette Setiadi, Ritch Sorenson, Erna Szabo, Punyacha Teparakul, Aqeel Tirmizi, Sevda Tsvetanova, Conrad Viedge, Carolyn Wall, Vladimir Yanchuk

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Data are presented showing how middle managers in 47 countries report handling eight specific work events. The data are used to test the ability of cultural value dimensions derived from the work of Hofstede, Trompenaars, and Schwartz to predict the specific sources of guidance on which managers rely. Focusing on sources of guidance is expected to provide a more precise basis than do generalized measures of values for understanding the behaviors that prevail within different cultures. Values are strongly predictive of reliance on those sources of guidance that are relevant to vertical relationships within organizations. However, values are less successful in predicting reliance on peers and on more tacit sources of guidance. Explaining national differences in these neglected aspects of organizational processes will require greater sensitivity to the culture-specific contexts within which they occur.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	188-208
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022102033002005
State	Published - Mar 2002

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Smith, P. B., Peterson, M. F., Schwartz, S. H., Ahmad, A. H., Akande, D., Andersen, J. A., Ayestaran, S., Bochner, S., Callan, V., Davila, C., Ekelund, B., François, P. H., Graversen, G., Harb, C., Jesuino, J., Kantas, A., Karamushka, L., Koopman, P., Leung, K., ... Yanchuk, V. (2002). Cultural values, sources of guidance, and their relevance to managerial behavior: A 47-nation study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33(2), 188-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022102033002005

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