scholarly journals Perceptions of a Glass Ceiling: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Mexican and American Employees

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley J. Bennington ◽  
George R. Wagman ◽  
Michelle N. Stallone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
American Employees

This study asks employees in the United States and Mexico if they believe there is workplace discrimination based on gender, age, or ethnicity. As members of international organizations, the United States and Mexico have agreed to strive for the elimination of employment discrimination. Hypotheses based on Hofstedes Power Distance Index (PDI) predicted cultural differences in the two countries would result in a higher perception of workplace discrimination from employees in the United States than those in Mexico. The results support the hypotheses; directions are offered for future research.

scholarly journals A Conspectus Of Job Satisfaction: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Mexican And American Employees

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Wagman ◽  
Joseph R. Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Workplace Satisfaction ◽  
American Employees ◽  
Employee Responses ◽  
Cross Cultural Analysis

This study asks employees in the United States and Mexico their perceived feeling of job satisfaction with their employment across service and production industries. The results show unexpected dissimilarities and similarities in the employee responses. Hypotheses based on Hofstedes Individualism (IDV) predicted cultural differences in the two countries would result in a higher perception of workplace satisfaction from employees in the United States than those in Mexico.

Cultural Differences in the Perception of Personal Growth Among Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-442
Author(s):  
Whitney Dominick ◽  
Kanako Taku
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Stressful Life Event ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Japanese Adolescents

Research shows that some adolescents experience positive psychological changes resulting from highly stressful life events. Because “positive change” is a value-laden concept, there may be cross-cultural differences in this conception of growth. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively and quantitatively assess different perceptions of personal growth across cultures. Adolescents from Japan ( n = 288, Mage = 16.16) and the United States ( n = 155, Mage = 16.21) completed demographic information and wrote three words describing their perception of personal growth. Results showed 443 different words generated, which were condensed into 12 categories. The types of words generated differed between nationalities, with Japanese adolescents generating more words related to social connection, and adolescents in the United States generating words related to change. Gender differences were found in physical change and age differences in the knowledge categories. Results demonstrate cross-cultural differences as well as similarities in the conceptualization of personal growth. Future research may examine how adolescents change the meaning of personal growth after experiencing personal growth resulting from a stressful life event.

scholarly journals The emotion-valuation constellation: multiple emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Sznycer ◽  
Aaron Lukaszewski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Emotions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Valuation ◽  
Common Architecture ◽  
Substantial Degree

Social emotions are hypothesized to be adaptations designed by selection to solve adaptiveproblems pertaining to social valuation—the disposition to attend to, associate with, and aid atarget individual based on her probable contributions to the fitness of the valuer. To steerbetween effectiveness and economy, social emotions need to activate in precise proportion to the local evaluations of the various acts and characteristics that dictate the social value of self and others. Supporting this hypothesis, experiments conducted in the United States and India indicate that five different social emotions all track a common set of valuations. The extent to which people value each of 25 positive characteristics in others predicts the intensities of: pride (if you had those characteristics), anger (if someone failed to acknowledge that you have thosecharacteristics), gratitude (if someone convinced others that you have those characteristics), guilt (if you harmed someone who has those characteristics), and sadness (if someone died who had those characteristics). The five emotions track local valuations (mean r = +.72) and even foreign valuations (mean r = +.70). In addition, cultural differences in emotion are patterned: They follow cultural differences in valuation. These findings suggest that multiple social emotions are governed (in part) by a common architecture of social valuation, that the valuation architecture operates with a substantial degree of universality in its content, and that a unified theoretical framework may explain cross-cultural invariances and cultural differences in emotion.

Cross Cultural Perceptions on Privacy in the United States, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Taiwan

2009 ◽  
pp. 284-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Chiou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Single System ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Different Cultures

In this chapter, the authors will briefly discuss some cross cultural concerns regarding Internet privacy. The authors believe that due to the cross cultural nature of the Internet itself, different cultures will tend to result in different concerns regarding Internet privacy. As such, there is no single system of protecting Internet privacy that may be suitable for all cultures. The authors also utilize focus groups from various countries spanning Asia and the United States to discover the differences between cultures. Hopefully an understanding of such differences will aid in future research on Internet privacy to take a more culture sensitive approach.

Cultural Communications of Mainland United States-Based Organizations and Their Hawaiian Workforces

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Erik S. Wright ◽  
Rose Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Doing Business

The Hawaiian Islands are a diverse melting pot of people, cultures, and languages that make doing business in the state a unique challenge for organizations based on the mainland United States. While Hawaii is indeed the 50th state in the union, culturally they are more closely aligned with Asia and other Polynesian cultures than the United States as a whole. Doing business in Hawaii can often feel as though one is doing business in a foreign country, a place where one only partially speaks the language. Understanding these cultural differences and shaping communication styles to align with the cultural values of the Hawaiian sub-culture is essential to success for any organization planning to start operations in Hawaii. Through a process of cultural analysis, organizations can more effectively manage change within their operations and engage their Hawaiian workforces with great success.

scholarly journals Factors underlying cross-cultural differences in stigma toward autism among college students in Lebanon and the United States

Autism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1993-2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Gillespie-Lynch ◽  
Nidal Daou ◽  
Maria-Jose Sanchez-Ruiz ◽  
Steven K Kapp ◽  
Rita Obeid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Knowledge Quality ◽  
Autistic People

Although stigma negatively impacts autistic people globally, the degree of stigma varies across cultures. Prior research suggests that stigma may be higher in cultures with more collectivistic orientations. This study aimed to identify cultural values and other individual differences that contribute to cross-cultural differences in autism stigma (assessed with a social distance scale) between college students in Lebanon ( n = 556) and those in the United States ( n = 520). Replicating prior work, stigma was lower in women than men and in the United States relative to Lebanon. Heightened autism knowledge, quality of contact with autistic people, openness to experience, and reduced acceptance of inequality predicted lower stigma. Collectivism was not associated with heightened stigma. Findings highlight the need to address structural inequalities, combat harmful misconceptions, and foster positive contact to combat stigma.

How Contemporary Publics Understand and Experience Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOH CHULL SHIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
China And India ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The People ◽  
Culturally Different

AbstractHow do contemporary publics understand happiness? What makes them experience it? Do conceptions and sources of their happiness vary across culturally different societies? This paper addresses these questions, utilizing the 2008 round of the AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in six countries scattered over four different continents. Analyses of these surveys, conducted in Japan, China, and India from the East; and the United States, Russia, and Australia from the West, reveal a number of interesting cross-cultural differences and similarities in the way the people of the East and West understand and experience happiness. Specifically, the former are much less multidimensional than the latter in their conceptions of happiness. Yet, they are alike in that their sense of relative achievement or deprivation is the most pervasive and powerful influence on happiness.

Argumentativeness and Political Participation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in the United States and Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Michael Croucher ◽  
Rand Otten ◽  
Meghan Ball ◽  
Tamara Grimes ◽  
Brett Ainsworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Analysis
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