National Culture - IHRM

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  • Created on: 14-01-23 12:02

1. What were the findings of Ybema and Byum on Japanese workers thoughts on Dutch

  • made rash decisions, were rude and didn't listen to management
  • made decisions too quickly in open discussions, were harsh and rash
  • made decisions too slowly in open discussions, were too soft and easily manipulated
  • made decisions fast and efficiently, didn't think of consequences
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2. 3 views of culture

  • Critique, Positive, Middle
  • Positivist, Interpretive, Critical
  • Positive, Interpretive, Negative
  • Large, Medium, Small

3. Gersten and Zolner on Interpretivist view

  • emphasis on local contexts and individual meanings comes at cost of prescriptions generalisability and predictability
  • encourages organisations to see culture for what it actually is, and work around this
  • encourages managers to attend to national cultures as processes not facts: more sensitive and reflexive HRM
  • allows more understanding of HRM practices to tailor to culture and ones to keep to self

4. What were the findings of Ybema and Byum on Dutch workers thoughts on Japanese

  • made decisions too quickly in open discussions
  • made decisions too quick, open and didn't consult managers
  • made decisions too slowly and were secretive, aways needing managerial approval
  • required reassurance from managers, made poor decisions that were slow

5. Individualism/collectivism

  • focus on immediate gratification/future
  • look after yourself/look after the group
  • distribution of emotional roles between gender
  • less powerful members of organisations accept power distributed unequally
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