University of Sussex
Browse
__smbhome.uscs.susx.ac.uk_lh89_Desktop_Late Research activity sheets_Peter Smith_smithpetersonthomasonJCCP2011accepted.pdf (463 kB)

National culture as a moderator of the relationship between managers' use of guidance sources and how well work events are handled

Download (463 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 01:31 authored by Peter B Smith, Mark F Peterson, Stephanie J Thomason
Managerial leadership within 56 nations is examined in terms of the sources of guidance that managers use to handle work events. Correlations between the sources of guidance that managers use and the perceived effectiveness of how well these events are handled are employed to represent their schemas and attributional propensities for effectiveness. These correlations are predicted to vary in relation to dimensions of national culture. The hypotheses are tested using data from 7,701 managers. Reliance on one’s own experience and training, on formal rules and procedures, and on one’s subordinates are positively correlated with perceived effectiveness globally, whereas reliance on superiors, colleagues, and unwritten rules are negatively correlated with perceived effectiveness. Cross-level analyses revealed support for hypotheses specifying the ways in which each of these correlations is moderated by one or more of the dimensions of national culture first identified by Hofstede (1980). These results provide an advance on prior analyses that have tested only for main effect relationships between managerial leadership and national culture.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

ISSN

0022-0221

Publisher

Sage

Issue

6

Volume

42

Page range

1101-1121

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-06

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-06-06

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-06-06

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC