... optimal performance from workers in Sub-Sahara Africa. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on employee/industrial relations by showing that a high-power-distance national culture and a high unemployment rate affect employee voice and silence, which brings to the fore...

... – The study showed different work values and attitudes in the workplace between Chinese and the US samples, and indicated the specifics influences that national culture has on them. Culture affects generational changes; generational differences in the US sample are bigger than in Chinese sample; work values...

...Douglas Renwick; Pramila Rao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of national cultural dimensions on staffing practices in Mexico – a major player in Latin America. US multinationals are increasing their presence in Mexico and staffing practices seem to be a great challenge...

... . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Cross‐cultural management Japan National cultures Organizational behaviour Expatriates Foreign business operations in Japan have increased substantially due to the market and regulatory changes. Some indications of the accelerated business...

... and group mentoring. All these factors combine to create diverse understandings of what mentoring is: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Mentoring Japan Western hemisphere Leadership National cultures Human capital Research on mentoring from the business and management field...

... that do not satisfy the normality assumption. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Human resource management National cultures Every researcher looking into human resource management (HRM) practices on a comparative basis comes across a major question. This question has to do...

...Boyd Black This paper investigates the relationship between national culture and the main dimensions of employment flexibility. A cultural model of comparative labour market flexibility is developed. Using Hofstede’s indices for measuring national culture, hypotheses concerning the association...

...Boyd Black This paper examines the relationship between national culture and high commitment management (HCM). A model linking national culture and HCM is developed and hypotheses concerning the relationship between national culture and the take‐up of specific HCM practices are derived. Empirical...

...Paul Sparrow; Pei‐Chuan Wu Examines the relationships between cultural values and preferences for human resource management (HRM) policies and practices in a sample of Taiwanese employees. Specifically, seeks to examine patterns of Chinese national culture in Taiwan, to identify the preferences...

... hypotheses with the problem of ethical norms for HRM in theory and practice. The final judgement is that the high theoretical requirements of HRM as an academic discipline cannot be fulfilled. Ethics Germany Human resource management National cultures Standards After more than 25 years...

... their interrelationships with managerial style. Conclusions indicate some unexpected cultural clusters and point to future research directions. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Corporate culture Employee communications Innovation Interpersonal communications Management Styles National cultures Western Europe...

... at the technical, relational and strategic level. Future perspectives, like the introduction of new technologies,may impose a new ethical dimension for HRM against the “gospel of efficiency”. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Ethics France Human resource management National cultures New technology Human...