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| Author: | Thomas, D. C. Ravlin, E. C. |
| Title: | Responses of employees to cultural adaptation by a foreign manager |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Psychology
1995 : FEB, VOL. 80:1, p. 133-146 |
| Index terms: | INTERNATIONAL TRADE MANAGEMENT STYLES EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examined how an often advocated strategy for briding cultural distance in international business relationships affected participants' responses and behavioral intentions. Participants were employees (N=223) in the U.S. subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturing firms. The context was simulated by having participants respond to videotapes of a Japanese manager interacting with American subordinates. Cultural adaption by the foreign manager was positively related to perceptions of similarity and managerial effectiveness and was negatively related to internal causal attributions for the manager's behavior. Attributions were directly related to participants' intentions to trust and perceptions of managerial effectiveness and moderated the relationship between perceptions of similarity and intentions to associate. |
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