Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Management

Publication Date

10-2008

Abstract

This paper examines the differences in the conception of the Positive Organizational Behavioral construct of hope between a strongly individualistic culture like the United States, and strongly collectivistic cultures like China, the Philippines and Vietnam. The differences are explained by the varying conceptualizations of autonomy, interconnectedness and self between the two cultures. The insight from this comparison should serve both to help accommodate cultural level differences among employees as well as offer a further step in the refinement of the application of individualist/collectivist interpretations to western based managerial and psychological models as well as practices.

Comments

This article was originally published in Economics & Business Journal: Inquiries & Perspectives. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Journal

Economics and Business Journal: Inquiries and Perspectives

Rights

Copyright © 2008 Bill Provaznik

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