HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL VALUES UK AND CHINA

Hofstede's Cultural Values UK and China

Hofstede's Cultural Values UK and China

Introduction

Modern development efforts and multinational enterprises business refer to the transfer of technological innovations in the industrially less developed industrially developed and developing countries. Tonnies and Durkheim If distinctions are applicable to societies characterized by the degree of industrial development, then international managers and economic development programs will benefit from consideration of the structural basis of social solidarity work, and exchange these may influence how workers respond to the alternative forms of management and rewards. The question then is whether there are values and work-related motivations that are associated with the level of industrial development of a society. Considerable monitoring has been paid to connecting national cultural standards of the skills of managers, management practices (Hofstede, 1975, 1980, 1991 and Schneider, 1989; Jaeger, 1990, Schneider and DeMeyer, 1991, Peterson et al, 1995) and industrial and business development (Franke, Hofstede and Bond, 1991, Hofstede and Bond, 1988, Shane, 1994, Yeh and Lawrence, 1995). Hofstede's work assessing the standards of equity affiliates in relation to authority, for the avoidance of doubt, individualism-collectivism, masculinity, femininity and guidance has been particularly influential (Hofstede, 1975, 1980, 1991, Hope, 1990). However, the study in this locality has not been integrated with the sociological literature on industrial development and changes in the values of the center. This study applies logistic regression analysis for responses from the UK and Chinese college graduates to test the ability of the cultural dimensions of Hofstede value of distinguishing between managerial workers in two nations with different levels of industrial development. The results have implications for management practices of multinational companies.

Theoretical background and research

The current interest in the meanings of the values of national heritage for the management to perform, and Hofstede's approach in specific, is rooted in two basic themes in recent years science community l9: Functionalism and the development of community. Influenced by Darwin's theories of biological evolution than intellectual ventures considered in the late 1800's, and exposure of the heritage of Western Europe to non-Western societies in Africa, South America and the Pacific Basin (through mercantilism, economic imperialism and colonial development), Western European sociologists and anthropologists developed the ideas of cultural and community development (Martindale, 1960).

Two influential common ideas of the last half of the 19 were the idea of Ferdinand Tonnies GemeinschaftGesellschaft (1887, Parsons et al 1961). And the idea of mechanical and organic solidarity Emile Durkheim (1893, Parsons et al 1961) .. Although now identify the communal systems are more complex and can not be clarified by simplistic notions of natural evolutionary development, yet these ideas can help managers around the world today to anticipate how the rules of conduct underlying assets individual may change with differences in community structures and industrialization in particular. Both the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft and mechanical solidarity-organic distinctions differentiate the companies in the cornerstone of the development of industry systems and reliable social infrastructure associated with the nature of work. Also, the prospects for environment and society based on ...