A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF SELF‐DIRECTED LEARNING READINESS IN CHINA, HONG KONG AND THE UNITED STATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL COMPETITION

This paper examines the relationship of learning style and job performance in a sample of the workforce collected from a Commodity Driven Society (CDS), the PRC, and compares and contrasts the data to a sample collected from a more Market Driven Society (MDS), Hong Kong, and a highly developed nation, the United States.