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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"power distance"”.
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Process Innovation in Colombia: Engaging Front-Line Employees in a High Power Distance National Culture
… American nation that demonstrates high levels of power distance. However, even in nations with high power distance, innovative firms exist that overcome this challenge. This existence raises the question, how do firms succeed at process innovation under conditions of a national culture of high …
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The impact of knowledge, skills, and attitude on organisational performance among Kuwaiti employees within the private oil and gas sector in Kuwait : the moderating effect of power distance
… within private gas and oil sector. Moreover, power distance has a moderation effect between attitude and organisational performance, while it did not have any moderation effect between knowledge, skills and the organisational performance. The variance explained through the theoretical model is …
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Multi-National Project Team Communications and Cultural Influences
… by the project team's cultural attribute of power distance. Utilizing a exploratory case study, semi-guided interview research approach, ordinal scale data and open-ended contextual based question responses was obtained. This data was gathered from United States---Russia and Canada---Angola …
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Impact of culture on stock market development and corporate governance
… which consists of five dimensions, which are: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity and time horizon. Stock market developmenti s representedb y four indicators, which are: stock market activity, size, liquidity and concentration. Empirical results, using structural …
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Fairness in Chinese Organizations
… level was found to have a significant but less powerful effect on one of the attitudinal outcomes, affective commitment. None of the three procedural justice variables had a significantly positive impact on contextual performance. Contrary to the hypothesis, participation at company level was …
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The Role of Power Paradigms in Organizational Bullying
… shared by the participants: I) the greater the power distance, the more frequently supervisor-to-employee bullying occurred; II) the smaller the power distance the more frequently peer-to-peer and employee-to-supervisor/manager bullying occurred; III) work environments were seen as more …
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Extraversion and Positive Affect
… (individualism versus collectivism, and power distance) influence the size of the extraversion-happiness relation. It was found that the relation between extraversion and pleasant affect replicated across diverse cultures, and one of culture dimensions--individualism (not power …
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The effects of culture on attorney preservation of the confidentiality of client information
… of culture: individualism-collectivism and power distance. The content analysis of the three ethics codes studied supported the research hypothesis that ethics codes in countries with greater power distance were more concerned with the preservation of the status of the legal profession than …
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The Relations Among Cultural Values, Ethnicity, And Job Choice Trade-off Preferences
… among individuals' (a) cultural values (power distance, Protestant Ethic-earnings, Protestant Ethic-upward striving), (b) ethnicity (European-American, Hispanic-American), and (c) their job choice trade-off preferences for organizational prestige over pay using Thurstone's (1927, 1931) …
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How Message Framing and Activating Constructs Reduce Psychological Distance: Strengthening Connections Between Supporters and Beneficiaries
… pre-existing personal preferences? Psychological distance theory suggests that people are more likely to support social initiatives when they perceive them as psychologically close. If that is the case, then reducing psychological distance should encourage greater engagement. However, despite the …
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An investigation of Organizational Justice in Pakistan’s higher educational institutes
… justice. Organizational Communication, Power Distance, Organizational Structure, Reward Allocation are drawn out key influencing factors contributing to the Organizational Justice. However, Organizational Trust has been explored as a moderator to see how it affects the relationship of …
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Management Accounting Control and Managerial Bullying: Economic, Social, and Political Dynamics in Bangladesh RMG Sector
… privately owned RMG factories located in a high-power distance emerging economy. Drawing on Max Weber’s ‘social stratification’ (i.e. class, status and party), this study has revealed that to maximise organisations’ profit and secure their personal gains, managers and supervisors frequently use …
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Are U.S. and French Cultural Differences Reflected in Advertising Appeals?
<p>Using 2 of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (power distance and uncertainty avoidance) associated by the research of Albers-Millers and Gelb with some of Pollay's value appeals used in advertising, this study successfully replicated 3 of 8 dependant relationships when analyzing the content of …
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A tale of two countries: adapting Chinese leadership styles to a South African context
… the distinct differences of cultural dimensions: Power Distance (PDI), Individualism (IDV), Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI), Masculinity (MAS) and Long-Term versus ShortTerm Orientation (LTO) between Chinese and Zulu people. Additionally, no significant difference between the two groups was found on …
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Making public relations personal : an exploratory study of the implications of palanca and guanxi on international public relations
… dimensions of individualism-collectivism and power distance; both are high collectivist and high power distance. They exhibited similarities related to uncertainty avoidance, though Latin America is high in uncertainty avoidance and China is medium. The two cultures differed along the …
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Evaluation of a Scientifically Developed Anesthesiology Handoff Protocol
… between providers including transactive memory, power distance, and conversational noise; however, literature suggests that the use of handoff protocols assist in improving communication and efficiency during handoffs. Studies regarding handoffs have typically centered on the content or delivery …
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The Impact of Westernization on Tongan Cultural Values Related to Business
… values (Collectivism I, Collectivism II, Power Distance, Future Orientation, and Uncertainty Avoidance) related to business. A Tongan version of the Project GLOBE Beta Questionnaire measuring cultural dimensions at the societal level was completed by 222 Tongans from the island groups of …
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Pushing the limits of performance. is it really mind over matter? an investigation into the effects of menthol mouth rinsing and the capacity for fatigue amelioration in trained adolescent male cyclists under heat stress
… male athletes during a modified variable power cycle test (M-VCT). Participants (n=11) cycled for 30-min in hot conditions (31.4±0.9 °C, 23.4±3.7% RH) on two occasions. In a randomized crossover design, (1) menthol MR (0.01%) or (2) placebo (PLA) MR, was administered at 6-min intervals. …
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Exploring the Impact of National Culture on Logistics Performance
… was explored. Statistical results showed Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance dimensions were found to have a negative correlation with the LPI while Individualism as well as Long Term Orientation were both positively correlated to the LPI. This cultural understanding adds to the …
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Institutional Determinants of Fair Value Disclosure: Evidence from Bangladeshi-Listed Companies
… These factors were tested using firm size, power distance, political representation and enforcement, respectively. A majority of these variables have never been tested in mandatory disclosure studies before and, thus, the current study provides new insights into corporate mandatory …
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