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McMahan, Ethan A. "Values and mortality salience the moderating effects of value orientation on cultural worldview defense /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1400968231&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Qian, Xiang [Verfasser]. "Cultural Value Orientation and Conflict Management Style of Chinese Companies in Germany / Xiang Qian." Düren : Shaker, 2019. http://d-nb.info/120221889X/34.
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Prasongsukarn, Kriengsin Marketing Australian School of Business UNSW. "The impact of cultural value orientation on customer perceptions of post-recovery service satisfaction in an Eastern context." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Marketing, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20837.
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It is now well recognised that an effective service recovery program is an essential part of firms??? service quality programs and critical to generating customer satisfaction and loyalty. A number of studies have investigated the impact of service recovery efforts (compensation, speed of response, etc.) on post-recovery satisfaction, mostly in Western countries. However, despite the importance of global markets, very few have examined how Eastern consumers react to service recovery efforts. Furthermore, none have examined the impact of cultural value orientation (cultural values measured at the individual level) in implementing effective service recovery programs. This is one of the few studies that have attempted to avoid the ecological fallacy, i.e., assume all consumers within a country are culturally homogeneous. Based on Justice Theory, this research conducted in Thailand, employed an experimental design to investigate how customer evaluations of service recovery efforts are influenced by interplay of the consumer???s cultural value orientation and service recovery attributes (apology, compensation, cognitive control, recovery initiation, and formality). The results reveal that cultural values of power distance, uncertainty avoidance and collectivism do indeed interact with a firm???s recovery tactics to influence perceptions of justice. In other words, the impact of a firm???s tactics is culturally dependent, and consumer expectations and perceptions of service recovery efforts vary, depending on customers??? cultural value orientation. Finally, all three forms of justice (distributive, procedural, interactional) along with disconfirmation of expectations, positively impact on overall service recovery satisfaction. Unlike previous studies, we found evidence to indicate that there is a temporal sequence associated with the three justice dimensions i.e., interactional and procedural justice precede and thus impact perception of distributive (outcome) justice. The results have implication for marketing theory as well as managerial action.
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Wilder, Rose. "An examination of Ugandan and U.S. American communication styles and value orientations." Scholarly Commons, 2015. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/204.
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This study describes cultural values and communication patterns that are attributable to Ugandans and U.S. Americans in Kampala, Uganda. Value patterns are described within this paper, a mixture of self-attributed and ascripted based on survey and interview data. This information was examined to better understand degrees of variations of communication styles and value orientations and how they contribute to intercultural misunderstanding and potential conflict in a professional setting. The purpose of the study is not merely to contrast Ugandan and U.S. American culture, but to create knowledge to allow better adaption for cross-cultural encounters and add to the scant communication based literature within the African context.
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Reid, Veronica. "A study of the influence of individual-level cultural value orientation on the formation of service quality expectations." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12008/.
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The service industry accounts for an ever-growing share of the global economy, and service aspects have become increasingly important for all goods. Since service expectations play a key role in the quality perceptions that consumers ultimately develop, it is important for service marketers to understand the nature of consumer expectations and the influences upon these expectations. Current research indicates that national culture affects service expectations, especially the information sources that consumers use and their opinion seeking propensity. However, cross-cultural expectation formation is a particularly under-researched area and researchers using national culture as an explanatory variable tend not to develop rigorous conceptual models clearly explicating how culture is meant to affect the consumer behaviour being examined. This research examines cross-cultural expectation formation and thus contributes to increasing academic understanding and improving marketers’ ability to manage the expectation formation process across cultures. Specifically, this research sought to empirically test the influence of individual-level cultural dimensions on the relative importance of the key antecedents of consumers’ expectations of service quality. A conceptual framework linking cultural factors to the formation of expectations was developed and empirically tested in a multicultural setting to explore similarities and differences between customers with significantly different cultural values. An experimental design was used in which five sets of 1x2 manipulations were developed for the manipulated independent variables (past experience, advertising, price, firm image, and word-of-mouth). Existing scales from the literature were used to measure predicted service quality expectations (the dependent variables) and individual-level cultural values (the measured independent variables). Data were collected in English via the Web from university students of different nationalities across three countries (UK, Malaysia, and China) and the final sample size was 486 respondents. To test the hypotheses and propositions five separate 2x2 between-subjects MANCOVAs were performed on the dependent measure in aggregate as well as on the three decomposed elements of predicted service quality expectations identified in this research: Tangibles, Customer Care, and Empathy. The findings indicate that service quality expectations are significantly influenced by the five antecedents of expectations investigated and that word-of-mouth communications and past personal experience explained a greater proportion of the variance in service quality expectations than explicit and implicit service promises. Adding to previous studies, findings show that advertising was significant only as an antecedent of Tangible expectations, word-of-mouth communications was particularly important in developing Empathy expectations, and price was most important for developing Customer Care expectations. The findings also supported the proposed conceptualisation, indicating that individual-level cultural factors moderate the relationship between the antecedents of expectations and predicted expectations. Long-term Orientation and Power Distance moderated the relationship between the antecedents and predicted expectations the most. Long-term Orientation and Masculinity have tended to be overlooked in the research stream but this research indicates that all five individual-level variables moderate the relationship between the antecedents of expectation and predicted expectations and also that these dimensions may explain consumer behaviour best when used in tandem. This information is also important for managers, who need to recognise that customers’ usage of various information sources in forming service quality expectations is partially culturally determined. Finally, the examination of cultural values at the individual level allows academics to develop a ‘cultural service personality’ at this level and allows practitioners, with the use of their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, to collect this information from consumers and use it to inform the type of information directed at consumers’ with different cultural service profiles.
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Schmidt, Donald. "The impact of cultural orientation on the perceived value of IT mediated customer service in an e-business context." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32510.
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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has not only opened up new and lucrative markets globally, it has generated novel business models and a new birthplace for innovation in customer service. Historically customers have been won or lost at times based not on products themselves but rather on the perceived value of ancillary services that are provided before, during, and after the actual product purchase. Because, in the case of E-commerce, these services are provided without direct human intervention, e-commerce websites designers have a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of their organization by providing services (usually information related), that automate the functions for attending to potential customers' needs during the E-commerce purchase process, like providing product information or handling a credit card transaction. Cenfetelli, Benbasat, & AI-Natour (2005) have called these functions 'Information Technology Mediated Customer Services or ITMCS. Because the literature supports the position that providing services has a high social component even when conducted via IT, there is reason to expect culture to influence the users' appreciation of the value of these automated services. The current study found some evidence that Internet users distinguish differences in the cultural relevance of the various kinds of website service offerings in a predictable and measurable way. The Internet users reported preferences for functions or features in a pattern that related to their cultural orientation. The conclusion from this research is that further research might capture the kinds of findings that website designers could use to make 'either/or' decisions about which customer service functions to provide in their website to best appeal to the key cultural traits of their target market audiences.Business, Sauder School of
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Foroudi, P., R. Marvi, and Hatice Kizgin. "THE OTHERS: the role of individual personality, cultural acculturation, and perceived value on towards firm's social media and acculturation orientation." Elsevier, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17597.
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YesThis paper systematically examines (i) how individual personality can influence on cultural acculturation which can impact on the higher level of perceived value in LGBTs, and (ii) how the higher level of perceived value towards social media can result in being more satisfied, (iii) consequently having a better working life at workplace and performance proficiency. The generated framework was validated through a survey from multinational corporations in multi-industries such as higher education (with more than two campuses around the world), global fashion, global retailing, tourism, hospitality, food, and electronics and information technology. Key results, implications for managers and researchers are highlighted.
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Sisler, Aiden [Verfasser], Angela [Akademischer Betreuer] Ittel, Itziar [Gutachter] Alonso-Arbiol, Sabine [Gutachter] Hark, and Angela [Gutachter] Ittel. "Adolescents' value orientation development in light of socio-cultural influences / Aiden Sisler ; Gutachter: Itziar Alonso-Arbiol, Sabine Hark, Angela Ittel ; Betreuer: Angela Ittel." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156017815/34.
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Scott, Lionel D. Jr. "Living in a complex social world: the influence of cultural value orientation, perceived control, and racism-related stress on coping among African-American adolescents." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302110168.
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Scott, Lionel D. "Living in a complex social world : the influence of cultural value orientation, perceived control, and racism-related stress on coping among African-American adolescents /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488205318509485.
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Strydom, Booyens Danna. "Ethical leadership across cultural value orientations." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64825.
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Over the past few decades many serious ethical problems have been reported in both business and public organisations. In response there has been increasing scholarly research interest in the construct of ethical leadership. At the same time, a growing body of scholarly knowledge dealing with cross-cultural leadership suggests that cultural factors influence the relationship between leadership and outcomes. This has highlighted a need to understand the relation between individual culture orientations and leadership. Moreover, since ethical leadership is a relatively new construct, the effect of culture on ethical leadership specifically has to date received little attention. This study undertakes to address this gap by evaluating the effect of cultural value orientations at the individual level of analysis on the relationship between ethical leadership at the middle management level and selected employee behavioural outcomes. A cross-sectional survey study is done using a multinational emerging market data sample embodying cultural diversity. Social cognitive theory is used to elucidate how cultural orientations of individuals change the social learning process through which ethical leadership influences employee outcomes. Structural equation modelling is used to test hypotheses derived from theory, including moderation of relationships by cultural value orientations. The research findings contribute an empirically validated theoretical explanation of how the cultural value orientations of individualism-collectivism and power distance, measured at the individual level of analysis, influence the relationship between ethical leadership and employee outcomes such as organisational citizenship behaviour, ethical climate, and performance. The findings of the study advance our understanding of the effect of cultural value orientations on the relationship between ethical leadership and employee outcomes and should prove useful for multinational enterprises wishing to create an ethical climate and instil effective ethical leadership practices across different nationalities and cultural groups. The study empirically confirms that ethical leadership does not only relate positively to the ethical climate of an organisation but also relates positively to actual employee performance. Further research is recommended to determine the causal direction of such relationships.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Danuta, Diskienė. "Vadovų vadybinės kompetencijos: būklė ir perspektyvos." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090408_085113-11467.
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Habilitacijos procedūrai teikiamų mokslo darbų apžvalgoje nagrinėjami svarbiausi Danutos
Diskienės atliktų 1997–2008 m. mokslinių tyrimų rezultatai. Autorės tyrimai yra susiję su
vadovų vaidmens šiuolaikinėje organizacijoje pokyčiais bei verslo ir viešojo sektoriaus
skirtingo lygio vadovų vadybinėmis nuostatomis, įgyvendinant valdymo funkcijas.
Pagrindinis tyrimų tikslas - įvertinti vadovų vadybines kompetencijas
pagal pagrindines valdymo funkcijas bei atskleisti kompetencijų pokyčių turinį ir kryptis,
atsižvelgiant į besikeičiančios aplinkos iššūkius. Tikslui atskleisti buvo iškelti tokie uždaviniai:
• atlikti, remiantis teoriniu vadovų kompetencijų modeliu, verslo ir viešojo sektorių
skirtingo lygio vadovų kompetencijų lyginamąją analizę ir identifikuoti kritines
pozicijas;
• nustatyti, atsižvelgiant į kultūros orientacijos modelį, Lietuvos kultūros vertybių
orientacijas ir atskleisti jų įtaką vadybinės elgsenos raiškai organizacijose;
• išnagrinėti ir apibendrinti teorines valdymo funkcijų turinį atskleidžiančias koncepcijas
vadovų kompetencijų ugdymo kontekste, pabrėžiant jų pritaikomumo lygį skirtinguose
veiklos sektoriuose (verslo ir viešajame sektoriuje);
• įvertinti skirtingo lygio vadovų vadybinių kompetencijų būklę, įgyvendinant
pagrindines valdymo funkcijas ir atskleisti galimas kompetencijų pokyčių kryptis.
Savo darbuose autorė remiasi teorinės minties ir vadybinės praktikos integravimu.
Empiriniai iškeltų vadybinių problemų tyrimai buvo atliekami dviem etapais: I... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This overview of research work done by Danuta Diskiene includes the most important research issues and results obtained in the period of 1997–2008. The principal research points and issues are summarized below. Author’s research is related to the changes of leader’s role in the modern organization, as well as with different managerial attitudes of business and public sector leaders needed in the realization of managerial functions. The main aim of this research is to evaluate the managerial competencies of leaders according to the main managerial functions and to reveal the contents and directions of the competencies’ changes in respect to the challenges of the changing environment. The following tasks were formed to disclose the aim: • To perform a comparative analysis and indentify critical positions of the managers representing different levels in business and public sectors, invoking theoretical module of managerial competencies; • To determine Lithuanian cultural values and to reveal their influence on the managerial behavior in the organizations in consideration of cultural orientation model; • To analyze and summarize theoretical concepts which reveal the content of managerial functions in the context of managerial competencies’ cultivation, stressing their adaptability level for different sectors (business and public sector); • To evaluate the condition of leaders’ managerial competencies on different levels, through implementation of main managerial functions and to... [to full text]
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Warnock, Linda Sue. "Changing Values: A Study of the Shift in Cultural Values and Perceptions of U.S. High School Students Following Orientation and Exposure to Russian Culture." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4882.
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When cultural values differ, it is difficult for people not to judge one another's behavior on the basis of their own individual and/or cultural values. Given the profound differences in Russian and American culture, the question of what happens when these two cultures interact comes to mind. The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship of culture specific orientation, coupled with a two week sojourn in Russia on the sojourners' perceptions of cultural values. The sojourners were high school athletes participating in the first part of a Russian - American Track and Field Exchange. In order to ascertain the students' value orientations, each student completed six Value Orientation Worksheets. Before the pre-departure orientation the students' completed two worksheets composed of fifteen questions, one according to their own cultural values, and one for their perception of Russian cultural values. The students completed two additional worksheets after the pre-departure orientation sessions, and two worksheets ten months after the sojourn. Analysis of the post-orientation worksheets suggests that the orientation sessions had a greater impact on the students' reported perceptions of their own cultural values than in changing their reported perceptions of Russian values. Unlike the post-orientation responses, an analysis of post-sojourn responses indicated that the sojourn experience appears to have had a comparable affect on the students' reported perceptions of their own cultural values and their reported perceptions of Russian cultural values. Post-sojourn worksheets revealed that agreement among the students after the shared orientation sessions was not a reliable predictor of agreement after the sojourn. In many cases, the individuality of the sojourn experience appears to have overcome the shared informational orientation training. Continued research in this field is needed to determine whether or not the tendencies uncovered in this study can be generalized to include a wider population, specifically - American high school student/athletes traveling abroad for a short term sojourn.
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Dalgar, Ilker. "Relational Models Theory And Their Associations With Cultural Orientations And Personal Value Priorities In The Turkish Cultural Context." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614770/index.pdf.
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This study aims to investigate elementary models of social relations in Turkish cultural context and to link these models with horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism and personal value priorities. Fiske (1992) suggested that four elementary relationship models: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing motivate, organize, generate, coordinate, and evaluate almost all social relations. First, the Modes of Relationship Questionnaire (MORQ) asessing the four relational models was adopted to Turkish. Second, systematical associations of relational models with horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism and personal value priorities were examined. It was expected that horizontal cultural dimensions would predict equality matching and vertical dimensions would predict authority ranking, individualism would be linked to market pricing and collectivism would be linked to communal sharing. For personal value priorities, self-trancendence values would be associatedwith communal sharing, self-enhancement with authority ranking and market pricing, and conservation with authority ranking. Participants (N = 214) completed the MORQ, the Individualism and Collectivism Scale (INDCOL), and the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ). The four factor-structure of the relational models was supported in comfirmatory factor analyses. The hypothesized associations between relaitonal models, cultural orientations, and personal priorities were mostly supported. The results indicated that collectivism predicted communal sharing, vertical dimensions predicted authority ranking, horizontal collectivism predicted equality matching, and vertical individualism predicted market pricing. It was also found that self-trancendence predicted communal sharing and equality matching, self-enhancement predicted authority ranking and market pricing, and conservation predicted authority ranking.Theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of the findings were discussed considering previous work and cultural context.
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Leonard, Pauline E. "Understanding the dimensions of school culture, an investigation into educators' value orientations and value conflicts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0014/NQ28290.pdf.
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Wu, Pei Chuan. "National culture value orientations, human resource management preferences and commitment in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624604.
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This thesis seeks to examine the linkage between national culture value orientations, Human Resource Management (HRM) preferences and commitment in Taiwan. Specifically, the purposes of this study are fourfold: • To identify variations in value orientations in individual employees. • To explore the relationship between value orientations and HRM preferences at both individual and organisational levels. • To evaluate the consequences of value orientation on levels of commitment and satisfaction. • To make a theoretical and practical contribution to the field of HRM, especially its relevance to value orientations. The analysis is based on a dual research methodology combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. Two questionnaires and one in-depth interview schedule are used. The first instrument measures cultural values using the cultural perspective questionnaire (CPQ4) based upon the conceptualisation of value orientations by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck. The second instrument measures: HRM preferences which were designed by the researcher based on Schuler and Jackson's typology; satisfaction and work values using Warr, Cook and Wall's scale; and commitment using Cook and Wall's measure. The interview schedule was developed by the researcher in an attempt to postulate the HRM preferences and actual policies and practices at the organisational level. In all, two sets of questionnaires were administered to a sample of 700 employees from shop floor to senior managers in seven Taiwanese organisations. 452 usable questionnaires were returned, representing a response rate of 64.6%. Additionally, at least four in-depth interviews were conducted in each company with HR managers and line managers.
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Nyambegera, S. M. "The relationship between cultural value orientations, human resource management preferences, person-organisation fit and job involvement in Kenya." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10294/.
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The main purpose of the research was to establish existing cultural value orientations and the extent of their influence on HRM preferences in the Kenyan context. The study undertook analyses of value orientations at the individual level to enable a better understanding of the role of cultural values in predicting HRM preferences. Essentially, the study determined how much variance in individual preference for HR system design can be attributed to the influence of value orientations and examined which values influence which work-related preferences in Kenya. Further, the study explored the extent to which fit between HRM preferences and actual policy practice impact levels of job involvement in a developing country context. The study also focused on the fit of individual values with organisational culture, as represented by the value orientations of others in the organisation. A survey was administered to 500 employees in eight Kenyan organisations. The analyses are based on 274 responses. The questionnaire assessed: a) cultural values using the Cultural Perspectives Questionnaire (CPQ4) based on the conceptualisation of value orientations by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961); b) HRM policy practice preferences and organisation actual policy practice based on items proposed by Schuler and Jackson (1987); and c) job involvement based on the scale developed by Kanungo (1982). I found evidence that on average, the sample held the following cultural value orientations: activity thinking and doing values characterising Kenyans as rational and goal oriented; relationship values emphasised both collateral and individual values and also to some extent hierarchical values. For HRM preferences Kenyans prefer high involvement/participation, high predictable rewards, performance E RM practices, and high empowerment. Three of these preferences were linked to cultural values. By identifying which HRM preferences are value-free or value-linked, researchers can gain insights into both the efficiency of a local HRM process and the transferability of the process. Ethnicity was also seen to play a role in cultural values as the sample reported significant differences between values such as subjugation and human nature good-evil. V The pervasive value-linked nature of the HRM process was also evident. This study shows one way in which employee preferences for HRM policies and practices could be predicted from cultural value orientations. Further, the study has shown that focusing on individual cultural value orientations can enable more subtle understanding of national cultural values and variance within national cultures. There is a link between job involvement and cultural values and fit. HRM preferencepolicy fit in this sample has a partial impact on job involvement. Also, the interaction between individual values and the values of others in an organisation (person-culture fit) may impact levels of job involvement.
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Cassini, Mark. "An examination of Kenyan and U.S. American communication styles and value orientations in a U.S. American organization in Nairobi, Kenya." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/834.
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This study describes cultural values and communication styles that are attributable to Kenyans and U.S. Americans. It examines how Kenyans and U.S. Americans experience these different cultural values and communication styles and how they contribute to intercultural misunderstanding and conflict while working together in an office setting. Ten Kenyans and ten U.S. Americans who work or worked together in Nairobi, Kenya were interviewed and surveyed. The goal of the study was to explore and identify the experiences of the participants relative to the following values: individualism and collectivism; power distance; time orientation; high and low context; and universalism and particularism. The methodology used for this study included phone interviews and an extensive survey, which provided anecdotal evidence on how individuals experience and interpret the differences in these values. The interpretation of the data offers insights into significant intercultural differences between these two groups. The need for effective intercultural communication is an everyday reality in Nairobi, whether at the office, in the market, or on the street. Recommendations are offered for both Kenyans and U.S. Americans to work through and manage the differences to enhance productivity and satisfaction in the workplace. Ultimately the findings from this study will facilitate a rich discussion for human resources and training departments of similar organizations whether in Kenya or elsewhere.
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Singh, Noopur. "Analysing the behavioural barriers to transparency in the upstream textile supply chain : A cultural orientation lens on behaviours." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23476.
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Transparency within the supply chain has become a key priority for textile brands in response to the growing stakeholder concerns around social and environmental impacts of the textile value chain. Textile industry is extremely labour dependent and adds massively to the environmental degradation, adding on to this the highly complex and scattered global supply chain network makes it more difficult for brands to implement transparency in their supply base. Due to the low-cost labour in developing countries, the majority of the textile suppliers is located in South Asia, where the cultural values have been found to be in sharp contrast to the Global West. Many prior studies have also highlighted the lack of supplier’s top management support as the linking barrier to sustainable initiatives. Hence, this research was designed to investigate the behaviour and attitude of top management executives towards various transparency dimensions, i.e., Traceability, Sustainability conditions (Social and environmental) and Purchasing practices, in order to understand the underlying behavioural barriers. The semi-structured interview with 9 top management executives across India and Sri Lanka revealed three major themes: (a) Transparency as business imperative, (b) Distrustful relationship with brand and (c) Tendency to externalise responsibility. The Schwartz theory of cultural orientation was used to examine the role of cultural value in explaining the identified behaviour of top management executives.
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Al-Hamadi, Abdul Basit Talib. "Impact of value orientations, ethical beliefs, national culture and national institutions on HRM policies and practices in Oman." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438917.
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Chang, Shih-Hua. "Codependency among College Students in the United States and Taiwan: A Cross-Cultural Study." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289834660.
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Bui, Ngoc Nhu Nguyet. "Proposition d'un modèle explicatif de la consommation socialement responsable : une application portant sur les consommatrices vietnamiennes." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAG011.
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Les consommateurs veulent, grâce à leur consommation, éliminer tout effet négatif et maximiser l'impact bénéfique à long terme sur la Société. Ce type de consommer est appelé la consommation socialement responsable. Des recherches sur ce concept ont été menées dans les pays occidentaux, mais relativement peu d'études ont porté sur les pays en Asie en général et au Vietnam en particulier. Notre volonté, dans ce travail doctoral, est de construire une échelle de mesure de la consommation socialement responsable dans le contexte du Vietnam et de modéliser la prise de décision du consommateur en matière de consommation socialement responsable dans lequel les orientations cultuelles, les valeurs personnelles, l'efficacité perçue et la valeur perçue influencent directement et indirectement sur le comportement du consommateur. Notre thèse met en évidence une structure de consommation socialement responsable en cinq facettes : orientation sociale, orientation éthique, sensibilité environnementale, consommation locale et souci d'économie avec 3 comportements vietnamiens typiques. La modélisation par les équations structurelles permet de valider partiellement le modèle proposé. En effet, le collectivisme vertical influence indirectement la consommation socialement responsable via les valeurs personnelles orientées vers les autres qui sont elles-mêmes influencent directement la consommation socialement responsable et indirectement celle-ci, via l'efficacité perçue et la valeur perçue. Cependant, le processus de décision du consommateur n'est pas identique entre les deux facettes de consommation socialement responsable étudiéesConsumer wants, through his or her consumption, to eliminate any negative effects and maximize the long-term beneficial impact on the society. This type of consume is known as socially responsible consumption. There exist a large body of literature on this concept in Western countries, but relatively few studies focused on countries in Asia in general and Vietnam in particular. This doctoral has two main aims. The first aim was to build a socially responsible consumption scale in the context of Vietnam. The second one was to propose and validate a consumer decision-making model regarding socially responsible consumption in a perspective of values in which cultural orientations, human values, perceived consumer effectiveness and perceived value directly and indirectly influence on consumer behavior. Our thesis highlights a socially responsible consumption structure in five facets: social orientation, ethical orientation, environmental awareness, local consumption and anxiety of economy with three Vietnamese typical behaviors. Modeling structural equations allows to partially validating the proposed model. Indeed, the vertical collectivism indirectly influences the socially responsible consumption via social-oriented values that are themselves directly influence the socially responsible consumption and indirectly influences the latter, via the perceived consumer effectiveness and perceived value. However, the consumer decision process is not the same between the two socially responsible consumer studied facets
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Lui-Lau, Icy. "Classroom structures, culturally-derived values and students' motivational orientations : a comparative study of two types of primary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3844/.
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At a time when policy-makers in Hong Kong are pushing for educational reforms, there seems to be an increasing interest for both the Government and parents to use success stories of our western counterparts as a point of reference in guiding reforms. The general purpose of this study was to examine the subtle interplay of factors (e.g. classroom structures, culturally-derived values, teachers' perceptions of 'what counts’ in education, students' perceptions of their learning, government policy and resources allocation etc) that might contribute to students' motivation orientations. Two primary classrooms, one from each education system (a local school and an international school in Hong Kong), were analysed. Subjects for this study were 80 students who completed a questionnaire and 20 students and 5 teachers who were interviewed individually by the researcher. They were chosen from two Key stage 2 classes in each of the two targeted schools. One specific focus of this investigation was to examine whether there were any significant differences in students' motivational orientations in the two classes of students (who came from two types of schools) studied. A second specific focus was to examine whether there were any differences in the classroom structures and practices between the two classes of students and, if so, to find out to what extent did they account for the differences in students' motivation orientation. The third specific focus was to examine the extent to which culturally derived values served to affect teachers’ interpretation of their professional values and definitions of good educational practices, which in turn defined how they structured their classroom. The last focus was to examine the extent to which culturally derived values served to affect students’ perceptions of the classroom instruction, and their definition of 'how learning should happen' in the classroom. Findings from this study could shed light on whether policy makers are heading for the right direction in education reforms.
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Faifua, Denise Elizabeth. "Willing and Social Work Participation: Socio-Cultural Rationalisation in Industrial Organisation." Queensland University of Technology, 2001. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15824/.
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In this thesis I interrogate the possibility of 'willing and social' work participation in industrial organisation. I draw on Habermas's (1976, 1979, 1984 & 1987) work to synthesise marxist and weberian ideas, and to derive a socio -cultural or cultural Marxist perspective on Capitalism. From this position I highlight the limitations of social action in theories of organisation and work. Moreover, I theoretically derive a model of work participation that acknowledges broader orientations to work. I interrogate that model of work participation in a study of four dominant forms of industrial organisation. Those organisations are SEQEB the South East Queensland Energy Board, Eagle Boy Pizzas in Queensland, the New South Sugar Milling Cooperative Ltd, and Budge -Ellis Staff Co-operative. Gathering data for this study involved both primary and secondary research. I used a comparative and longitudinal field research approach, unstructured interviews with an interview guide, and the collection of documents recommended by interviewees. I interviewed people working in the organisations and relevant government agencies. My research involved travel in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Ultimately, I produce a sociologically informed model for the establishment of 'willing and social' work participation. I conclude work participation exists within the context of capitalism, and social relations - either formally free or free; that work participation is directly influenced by rational configurations of the world of work comprising economic, political and social worldviews; and I argue the dominance of a worldview depends on whether the political action premises of buffering and shoring successfully neutralise competing worldviews; and whether the moral dictums or espoused values of work are prescribed or invoked and result in the exploitation or deployment of internal values. My thesis points in the direction of further work on co-operative forms of organisation and work and their commonweal ideologies. In particular, my findings demonstrate a crowding out of co-operative forms and ideologies, not only by capitalist forms but also by trade union collectives. The type of research I suggest has the potential to increase the legitimation of co-operative forms of organisation. Although, the Australian co-operative movement has many achievements there remains the problem of establishing a socially progressive rationality that makes practical or operational sense to people at work. The emancipator ideal of willing and social work participation is intended to epitomise the goals of the enlightenment project, and to lead in that direction.
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Репин, В. П., and V. P. Repin. "Состояние и перспективы военно-патриотического воспитания российской молодежи в проектных технологиях : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/87650.
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Актуальность магистерского исследования детерминирована необходимостью решения на государственном уровне проблемы воспитания патриотизма как основы консолидации общества и укрепления государства. Проблема связана с необходимостью противодействия фальсификации российской истории, разрушению системы традиционно-нравственных ценностей российской молодежи. Достижение данной цели предполагает решение задач совершенствования системы воспитания детей и молодежи, формирования социально активной личности гражданина и патриота. Приоритетным направлением государственной молодежной политики является создание условий для повышения гражданской ответственности за судьбу страны, обеспечение национальной безопасности и устойчивого развития социума. С целью актуализации потенциала молодого поколения необходимо осуществлять поддержку молодежных проектных инициатив. Проектный подход в государственной молодежной политике рассматривается и как образовательная технология и как инструмент воспитательной деятельности. Целью работы является совершенствование технологий военно-патриотического воспитания. Задачи, решенные в диссертации: анализ концепций военно-патриотического воспитания, проблем и перспектив системы военно-патриотического воспитания; изучение потенциала проектной деятельности молодежных организаций и Федерального агентства по делам молодежи «Росмолодежь» в военно-патриотическом воспитании; Разработка социального проекта патриотического воспитания «Бал Героев Отечества». Объект исследования – военно-патриотическое воспитание «Росмолодежи», предмет – проектные технологии военно-патриотического воспитания. Методы исследования: теоретический анализ нормативной, правовой информации и научной литературы по теме патриотического исследования; количественно-качественный анализ проектных инициатив молодежи. Новизной диссертационного исследования является выделение в военно-патриотическом воспитании широкого, социально-педагогического компонента, обеспечивающего глубокое понимание каждым молодым человеком своей роли и места в служении Отечеству, и специфического, в большей степени нацеленного на подготовку к конкретной деятельности, определяемой спецификой военной службы. Актуализация потенциала современной российской молодежи осуществляется в рамках Всероссийского конкурса молодежных проектов и Всероссийской молодежной форумной кампании. Традиционный метод анализа, выявляющий суть проекта, иллюстрирует превалирование проектов военно-патриотического воспитания, разработанных на основе специфического компонента. Более широкий социально-педагогический компонент представлен минимально в выигравших проектах. Представляется перспективным и необходимым разработку проектов более широкой направленности в рамках военно-патриотического воспитания. Теоретические разработки могут быть использованы для научного обоснования программ военно-патриотического воспитания молодежи, подготовки проектных заявок на грантовые конкурсы социально значимых инициатив. Разработанный проект может быть использован для организации культурно-досуговой деятельности как технологии формирования ценностных ориентаций в военно-патриотическом воспитании в разных молодежных группах.The relevance of the master's study is determined by the need to solve at the state level the problem of the upbringing of patriotism as the basis for the consolidation of society and the strengthening of the state. The problem is related to the need to counter the falsification of Russian history, the destruction of the system of traditional moral values of Russian youth. Achieving this goal involves solving the problems of improving the system of upbringing of children and youth, forming a socially active personality of a citizen and patriot. The priority direction of state youth policy is to create conditions for increasing civil responsibility for the fate of the country, ensuring national security and sustainable development of society. In order to actualize the potential of the young generation, it is necessary to support youth project initiatives. The project approach in state youth policy is considered both as an educational technology and as an instrument of upbringing activity. The aim of the work is to improve the technology of military-patriotic upbringing. Tasks solved in the dissertation: analysis of the concepts of military-patriotic upbringing, problems and prospects of the system of military-patriotic upbringing; the study of the potential of the project activities of youth organizations and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs "Rosmolodezh" in military-patriotic upbringing; Development of a social project of patriotic upbringing "Ball of Heroes of the Fatherland". The object of study is the military-patriotic upbringing of Rosmolodezh, the subject is the project technology of military-patriotic upbringing Research methods: theoretical analysis of regulatory, legal information and scientific literature on the topic of patriotic research; quantitative and qualitative analysis of youth project initiatives. The novelty of the dissertation research is the allocation in the military-patriotic upbringing of a broad, socio-pedagogical component that provides each young man with a deep understanding of his role and place in serving the Fatherland, and a specific one, more aimed at preparing for a specific activity determined by the specifics of military service. The potential of modern Russian youth is actualized within the framework of the All-Russian contest of youth projects and the All-Russian youth forum campaign. The traditional method of analysis, revealing the essence of the project, illustrates the prevalence of military-patriotic education projects developed on the basis of a specific component. A wider socio-pedagogical component is represented minimally in the winning projects. It seems promising and necessary to develop projects of a broader orientation within the framework of military-patriotic upbringing. Theoretical developments can be used to scientifically substantiate military-patriotic youth upbringing programs, to prepare project applications for grant competitions for socially significant initiatives. The developed project can be used to organize cultural and leisure activities as a technology for the formation of value orientations in military-patriotic upbringing in different youth groups.
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Барган, А. С., and A. S. Bargan. "Организационная культура социально ориентированных организаций : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/94607.
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В магистерской работе представлен анализ и типология организационной культуры социально ориентированных организаций с позиции действующих сотрудников социально ориентированной сферы, а также ожиданий от потенциальных участников деловых отношений социально ориентированной сферы. Нами было установлено, что основной трудовой ресурс в социально ориентированной сфере – это волонтеры – что требует значительного влияния со стороны руководителя, но также в значительной степени важен профессиональный и качественный рост навыков, способностей сотрудников социально ориентированной сфере.The master's work presents an analysis and typology of the organizational culture of socially oriented organizations from the perspective of existing employees of a socially-oriented sphere, as well as expectations from potential participants in business relations in a socially-oriented sphere. We found that the main labour resource in the socially-oriented sphere is volunteers, which requires significant influence from the head, but also the professional and qualitative growth of the skills and abilities of employees in the socially-oriented sphere is also very important.
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Guo, TIEYUAN. "Values of the past and the future: cultural differences in temporal value asymmetry." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1493.
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Past research has indicated that Chinese culture is more past oriented; whereas North American culture is more future oriented. Such cultural differences in temporal orientation may affect how people value future and past events. I predicted that the typical temporal asymmetry effect among European North Americans - placing more value on future events than on past ones - would be reversed among Chinese due to the cultural differences in temporal orientation.
I conducted four studies to examine how culture affects the values people attached to past and future events. Overall, the results supported my predictions. Across all four studies, I found that European Canadians attached more monetary value to an event in the future than to an identical event in the past with similar temporal distance; whereas Chinese people placed more monetary value on a past event than on an identical future event. In Study 3, I also investigated the underlying mechanisms that would account for such cultural differences. Among the three mediators believed to be affected by the past and future orientations, I found two that mediated the cultural influences on the temporal value asymmetry effect: (1) emotions associated with future and past events, and (2) mental simulations of future and past events. Specifically, European Canadians predicted stronger emotions for future events than what they recalled for past events, whereas Chinese showed an opposite trend. Emotions associated with future or past events, in turn, predicted the monetary values attached to the events. In addition, relative to Chinese Canadians, who showed clearer mental simulations for past than for future events, European Canadians had clearer mental simulations for future than for past events. Mental simulations, in turn, showed a positive association with the monetary value assigned to the events.Thesis (Ph.D, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2008-09-26 16:18:09.371
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Anum, Genevieve. "The influence of individual cultural value orientation on the evaluation of a retail store environment." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24087.
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The role of culture in consumer behaviour and the importance of service quality delivery as a differential factor among businesses have received much interest in recent times, especially within the retail environment. With similar products being offered, service quality is seen as a critical tool to ensure customer loyalty. This implies that building customer loyalty requires understanding the cultural dimension of the consumer. On the other hand, literature reviewed shows the danger in stereotyping individuals into a national culture since sub-cultures exist especially in the case of a multicultural society as South Africa. Thus, this study aims at examining the individual cultural value orientation of retail patrons and to investigate its influence on their perception of retail service quality. To achieve the research objective a structured questionnaire was administered to retail patrons in a mall intercept. The questionnaire was structured around attitudinal questions and the Retail Service Quaity Scale. The results showed a relationship between the individual cultural value orientation and the importance of the retail service quality dimension. Although some of the findings were not what was expected; the study provides a framework by which retailers can segment their market and allocate resources. It also contributes to the knowledge base and provides a platform for further research.CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Prasongsukarn, Kriengsin. "The impact of cultural value orientation on customer perceptions of post-recovery service satisfaction in an Eastern context /." 2005. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20050713.195323/index.html.
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Issarachaipisit, Kawin, and 楊鵬江. "The Cultural Value of Long-Term Orientation Influences on Notebook Computer Purchase Decision Making: Contrast between Taiwan and Thailand." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94378300348263019996.
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企業管理系
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Culture has great potential to affect consumers and consumer purchase behavior. This study examines the consumer purchase preference on notebook computer, as affected by cultural values, underlying consumer decision-making and compares the purchase preference between Taiwan and Thailand. The conceptual framework is based on the theory of consumer behavior which is emphasized on the effect of the cultural values of long-term orientation on the set of the key factors affecting the purchase of notebook computer. The main purpose of this study is to explore the purchase behavior and preferences when making the purchase of notebook computer, to examine whether the cultural value of long-term orientation, and lifestyle and personality have any influence on the key factors that affect the purchase of notebook computer of Taiwanese and Thais, and to compare the differences of the relevant constructs between Taiwanese and Thais. Data was mainly conducted in Tainan, Taiwan and Bangkok, Thailand during September to December 2007. The study sample consists of 407 Taiwanese and 404 Thai respondents. Factor analyses were conducted to extract the components in order to perform further analyses. T-tests were conducts to compare the differences of the relevant constructs between these two countries. Multiple regressions were used to explore the effects of the relevant constructs on the key factors affecting the purchase of notebook computer. Finally, ANOVAs were conducts to examine the demographic differences among the factors from the relevant constructs. . The findings present that the cultural value of long-term orientation, and lifestyle and personality have significant effects on the key factors that affect the purchase of notebook computer of Taiwanese while, in contrast, the cultural value does not have any effect on the key factors of Thais as the lifestyle and personality does. Moreover, the study also shows that the relevant constructs have significant differences among the demographic information of these two countries.
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Kumar, Venkatesh G. "A study of relationship between socio-cultural background and perceived stressful life events in relation to intelligence and value orientation in high school students." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1567.
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Polesná, Helena. "Změny reprodukčního chování z pohledu druhého demografického přechodu ve vybraných evropských zemích." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321085.
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Changes in reproductive behaviour within the second demographic transition in the selected european countries Abstract The aim of this work is to analyze the changes in reproductive behavior within the second demographic transition in five countries of Europe. The Czech Republic, Estonia, The Netherlands, Finland and Portugal were selected. Each of them represents one of trajectories of the second demographic transition in the European region. Within theoretical concept of the second demographic transition the research of cultural factors was particularly stressed as they are considered to be the main factors of stimulation of the changes. Attention was focused on the analysis of value orientation of selected populations using data of the European Values Study (EVS) and the International Social Survey (ISSP). Analysis of reproductive behavior in those countries was included as well. It was found out, that changes in value orientation in the post-communistic countries couldn't have been the only determinant of changes in reproductive behavior. Moreover, the value change has been still taking place even in the countries where the second demographic transition started three or four decades ago. The European-wide mechanism of the differentiation in value orientations has been identified. The holders of liberal...
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Lock, Elizabeth. "The relationship between individualistic and collectivistic value orientations and early career indecision." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2690.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between early career indecision and individualistic and collectivistic cultural value orientations amongst new entrants to the workplace. The INDCOL (Triandis, 1995) was used to gather information on the vertical and horizontal scales of the individualism and collectivism of respondents, while the Career Decision Scale (CDS) (Osipow, 1987) was used to gather information on the levels of career certainty and career indecision. A sample of convenience of N=115 new entrants to the workplace in a typical South African governmental organisation was used. The results indicated that there is no relationship between individualistic and collectivistic cultural value orientations and career indecision and that biographical variables have no relationship with early career indecision. However, it was found that the biographical variables of race and gender may have a significant impact on the cultural value orientations of individuals in the South African work context.Industrial and Organisational Psychology
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陳音溫. "The influences of media popular culture on the value orientation of the junior high school studens udner globalization." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t3j9pk.
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未來學系
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Abstract The purpose of the research is to study the relationship between Media Popular Culture and the values of junior high school students. In this study, Media Popular Culture referred to “styles of popularity”, “idolatry”, “TV viewing time” and “types of favorite TV programs”. The researcher explored the influences of Media Popular Culture on the “values of body” and “values of money”. Furthermore, the researcher hoped to realize the junior high school students' attitudes towards not only foreign but also local cultures. The research utilized questionnaire as a research method. The researcher processed questionnaire with stratified random sampling. The total copies were 658, the valid ones were 609, and the research subjects involved the junior high school students in Yi-lan. The researcher constructed the questionnaire named as “Survey on the attitude toward TV viewing, idolatry, styles of popularity and value orientation”. The data was analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, x2 square, Independent Samples T-Test, One-Way ANOVA, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation. The conclusions were listed as follows: 1. Junior high school students in Yi-lan had no proper control of TV viewing time and TV program choices. Significant differences were found in TV viewing time according to the number of TV sets, the installation of cables, and the socio-economic status. 2. The primary idols included “movie star, singer, host” and “being talented” was the main reason for choosing the idols. Most of the subjects liked to dress up in their way. The information primarily came from TV. 3. Idolatry and styles of popularity were influenced by TV viewing time and types of favorite TV programs. 4. Idolatry was significantly related to (1)values of money involving “power and prestige”, “positive emotions”, “worrying about money”, and (2)values of body involving “the instruments of desires”, “thinness is beautiful”, and “appearance-orientation.” 5. Styles of popularity were significantly related to (1)values of money involving “power and prestige”, “positive emotions”, “worrying about money”, and (2)values of body involving “the instruments of desires”, “thinness is beauty”, and “appearance-orientation.” 6. Preference for children's programs, the dramas of the Japanese, the Korean, Hong-Kong, and the Chinese, as well as leisure or cosmetology programs enabled junior high school students to agree with Japanese cultures and to ignore Taiwan cultures. 7. “Values of body” and “values of money” were influenced by TV viewing time and types of favorite programs.
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Oelofse, Eriaan. "Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24724.
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Due to the changing demographics of South African organisations after the 1994 elections and the subsequent sub-cultural diversification, the working environment is becoming the primary place where the different South African sub-cultural groups, with their different value systems, are in interaction with each other. The consequent lifting of sanctions exposed South African organisations to globalisation and international competition. This forced managers to improve organisational processes and operations, not only to protect their own domestic markets, but also to become internationally competitive. At the same time, they had to adhere to newly created labour legislation, which dramatically changed the face of the South African labour market. The complex combination of several sub-cultures in the South African work environment can adversely affect organisational effectiveness if not properly understood and managed by effective transformational leaders. The concept of cultural values was used to explore the differences, as well as the similarities, between the various sub-cultural groups in the South African environment. This study examined cultural differences and similarities between 477 junior and middle managers in the financial services sector, who belonged to the four South African sub-cultural groups (Black, Coloured, White, and Indian), and between South African male and female managers. It also investigated whether cultural values change indiscriminately during the acculturation process, or whether certain cultural values, labelled peripheral values, change easier or before other cultural values, labelled core values. Due to the importance of transformational leadership in the work environment, this study also explored the differences and similarities of South African managers on Bass and Avolio’s Full Range Model of Leadership. (Avolio&Bass, 1999; Bass, 1985, 1997). A moderate social constructionist theory was used as a framework for this study, to analyse and describe quantitative results obtained with the various measuring instruments. Firstly, it was found that although there were statistically significant differences between most of the cultural value dimensions of the various sub-cultural groups, not all of these differences were practically significant. Results indicated that these groups could often be clustered together on specific cultural value dimensions, sometimes consisting of a Black, White, and Coloured cluster, sometimes as a Black, Coloured, and Indian cluster, and so forth. Secondly, independent variables other than sub-cultural group, gender, and age also showed practically significant relationships with some of the cultural value dimensions. Thirdly, the results indicated that the cultural values are very stable, even in the dynamic and multi-cultural South African environment, and as such, no core or peripheral values could be identified. Finally, the results also indicated that the transformational-transactional leadership model is cross-culturally endorsed within the South African financial services sector. It pointed out that irrespective of gender, junior or middle management level, age, educational level, number of years full-time work experience, number of years as manager, or having been exposed to formal Western management training, all managers evaluated themselves as more transformational than transactional.Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Chang, Shu Chun, and 張淑君. "Value orientations in parent-adolescent’s goal conflicts and post decision attitudes: a cross-culture study between Taiwan and the Netherlands." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80136326949659845856.
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The present study examined the culture influence on children’s perception on parent-adolescent goal conflict situations. 154 Taiwanese and 134 Dutch undergraduates participated in this study. After reading a scenario of parent-adolescent conflict, participants completed questionnaires assessing their value orientations and attitude after decision. In conditions when the protagonist refused father’s suggestion, participants from both group perceived more self-oriented values. However, in conditions when father’s suggestion was accepted, Dutch participants perceived more social-oriented values. On the contrary, Taiwanese participants perceived more self-oriented values. Results show that Taiwanese participants attend more to father-adolescent relationship and tend to accept father’s suggestion, whereas their Dutch counterparts attend more mutual consensus and self-interests. These results suggest that culture-beliefs about parent and adolescent relationship may influence how its people face and resolve goal conflicts between adolescent and their fathers.
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Chang, Tzu-Fen. "The Acculturation of Chinese-American Adolescents in Negotiating Autonomy and Connectedness: Comparison between Chinese- and European-Americans." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7112.
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Chinese-American adolescents were compared with the major group in the
United States (European-American adolescents) in negotiating self-concepts related with
autonomy and connectedness. Senses of autonomy and connectedness were evaluated by
examining adolescents' cultural value orientations (individualism and collectivism),
parent-adolescent relationships (decision-making styles and power perception), and
relations between the two constructs. Participants included 56 first- or second-generation
Chinese-American adolescents (18.5% of first-generation and 81.5% of secondgeneration)
and 45 European-American adolescents, accompanied with their mothers (47
Chinese-American mothers and 42 European-American mothers).
In terms of cultural value orientations, Chinese- and European-Americans' selfconcepts
were consistently oriented towards collectivism more than individualism in
adolescents and mothers. With regard to parent-adolescent relationships, Chinese-
American adolescents have identified with the dominant culture to show similar desires
of being autonomous as European-American adolescents. However, Chinese-American mothers adopted more authoritarian, conservative, and inflexible parenting styles than
European-American mothers. With regard to the relations between variables of cultural
value orientations and variables of parent-adolescent relationships, the pattern of
findings was consistent with the notion that Chinese-American adolescents who
internalize highly collectivistic cultural values displayed more collectivistic
communication styles in parent-adolescent relationships than European-American
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Hupková, Lenka. "Hodnotová orientace mládeže ze socio-kulturně znevýhodněného prostředí." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-344156.
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The goal of the thesis is describing the value orientation of young people from the socially and culturally disadvantaged surroundings. The thesis is theoretical and empirical and it has a qualitative character. The research pattern are young people who are visiting a low- threshold facility for children and teenagers. We are describing the issue of the age of young people, conception of values, evaluation process, classification of values, value orientation, education to values, moral development of human, socially and culturally disadvantaged surroundings, family, peer groups and the low-threshold facility for children and teenagers in the theoretical part. There was performed an analysis of the value orientation of the selected group of respondents based on the data from semi-structured interview in practical part. The results of research shows that the part of the value orientation of the young people is the family, life in prosperity, free time, education, friends, interest activities, love, surroundings, make own family and responsibility. These parts characterize what is important, valuable and necessary for the respondents.
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Syrůček, Petr. "Firemní kultura vs. hodnotová orientace jejích zaměstnanců." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321913.
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Global companies have to deal with cultural differences which may be source of misun-derstanding in the moment when company expands in to the new location and tries to introduce own organizational culture in different country. This diploma thesis tries to identify possible complications which might arise to an American company running business in the Czech milieu. At the beginning the thesis introduces main terminology and theoretical concepts related to the topic (labour market changes, globalization, culture, organizational culture etc.). The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the results of own survey made among the employees in the Czech office of an American company. Survey is based on the results of the analysis of documents about Czech and American values (mainly about values related to the work) and is trying to analyze how Czech employees accept American corporate culture. Survey tries also to confirm differences which are rising from cultural value orientation of Czech and American population.
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Wahler, Gloria. "The relationship of cultural values to coping styles, perceived stress, and emotional well-being of master’s level business students at a European University." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26960.
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The study examined the relationships between coping strategies, emotional well-being and
perceived stress under the aspect of cultural values among 226 university students. Participants
completed questionnaires relating to their cultural values, emotional well-being, perceived
stress, and their coping strategies. The main objective was to explore the effect of a potential
mediating effect of coping styles on cultural values and well-being. It was found that cultural
values had a significant effect on an individual’s preferred coping style and well-being, while
coping also showed to correlate with well-being. Especially long-term orientation showed to be
the strongest predictor for both coping styles and well-being. No mediating effect of coping on
cultural values and well-being using a mediation analysis could be found. Additionally, it was
examined whether the results for participants from Germanic European countries significantly
differed from participants of Latin European origin in regard to well-being, coping styles and
cultural values. It was found that uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation and task-oriented
coping differed among the two groups. Based on the study’s findings, it is suggested to
implement self-discipline interventions and/or tools to help students cope with stress.Este estudo examinou as relações entre estratégias de enfrentamento, bem-estar emocional e stresse percebido sob o aspeto de valores culturais entre 226 estudantes universitários. Os participantes completaram questionários referente aos seus valores culturais, bem-estar emocional e as suas estratégias de enfrentamento. O principal objetivo era explorar o efeito de um potencial efeito mediador de estilos de enfrentamento em valores culturais e bem-estar. Verificou-se que valores culturais tinham um efeito significativo no estilo preferencial de enfrentamento individual e de bem-estar, enquanto que o enfrentamento também demonstrou estar correlacionado com o bem-estar. Especialmente, a orientação a longo prazo demonstrou ser o preditor mais forte tanto para estilos de enfrentamento como para o bem-estar. Não foi encontrado nenhum efeito mediador de estilos de enfrentamento em valores culturais e bemestar utilizando uma análise de mediação. Adicionalmente, foi examinado se os resultados de participantes de países europeus germânicos se diferenciaram significativamente de participantes dos países europeus de origem latina no que se refere a bem-estar, estilos de enfrentamento e valores culturais. Constatou-se que a evitação de incerteza, a orientação de longo prazo e o enfrentamento orientado às tarefas diferenciaram-se entre os dois grupos. Com base nos resultados deste estudo, sugere-se a implementação de intervenções de autodisciplina e/ou ferramentas que ajudem o estudante a lidar com stresse.
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ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Jana. "Podniková kultura ve vybraných podnicích." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-153508.
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The aim of this diploma thesis which is called Corporate culture in chosen enterprises was to specify the deciding dimensions of corporate culture, analyze them and suggest changes in the chosen companies. The surveyed companies were Pleas, a.s. and TKZ Polná, spol. s r.o.