The Impact of National Culture on Employees' Attitudes Toward Heavy Work Investment: Comparative Approach Romania vs. Japan

The national culture is a system of assumptions, values, norms and traditions shared by one national group; the corporate culture is a system of rituals, behavior patters, norms and values shared by majority of employees in a company. Both cultures influence the style of management and communication with employees. The national culture influences the corporate culture, but in a long term, a corporate culture can also influence the national culture. Strong corporate cultures can suppress the national culture through the system of standardization of business operations, which in international companies is an element of brand identification and a competitive advantage. Global hotel companies which manage the hotels all over the world, face problems which derive from differences between their own corporate culture and national cultures of local staff. The efficiency of operations will depend on the way and skills in handling those problems. The influence of national and sometimes local cultures might have positive impact on creation of very successful hotel system of hotel service which often is well accepted on tourist market, but might also result with potential misunderstandings and even opposite effects. The paper surveys the elements of national cultures which might have impact on corporate cultures. The paper assumes that global hotel companies often face big cultural and social differences in certain destinations of their business interest. The model of survey are hotel corporate cultures in Croatian, European and world hotels and their corporations.

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“THE ROOM WAS QUITE SMALL BY AMERICAN STANDARDS” – ARE ONLINE HOTEL REVIEWS CULTURE-SPECIFIC?

Tourism Culture & Communication ◽

10.3727/109830421x16345418234001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Nielsen ◽

Karen K. Zethsen

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

National Culture ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Personal Service ◽

Great Relevance ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Physical Comfort ◽

Hotel Managers ◽

The Impact

Hotel bookings are increasingly made online, and many travellers rely on eWOM in the form of peer hotel reviews. These reviews potentially contain information of great relevance to the tourism industry and offer a unique and ever-expanding corpus of unsolicited data. If this data is investigated systematically, it may provide insights that would enable hotel managers to be proactive in their marketing. The present study focuses on the under-researched area of the potential impact of nationality on the reviews. Using a corpus of authentic American and German hotel reviews and the qualitative, phenomenologically-inspired method of Systematic Text Condensation, this study investigates the impact of national culture on review comments in order to establish whether nationality makes a difference for the themes and attitudes expressed. The data indicate that Americans are more likely to focus on old-world charm, romance, physical comfort, personal service/relations and problem-solving than Germans are. The overall results of this qualitative study allow us to conclude that there are indeed differences between the German and the American reviews to a degree that is worth pursuing in future mixed-methods research and that may have practice implications for hotel managers.

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The gender gap in sport event attendance in Europe: The impact of macro-level gender equality

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/1012690216671019 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 53 (5) ◽

pp. 533-549 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Susan Lagaert ◽

Henk Roose

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Macro Level ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Gender Inequalities ◽

Gender Gaps ◽

Sport Event ◽

Individual Level ◽

Eu Countries ◽

The Impact

This paper studies the gender gap in sport event attendance – characterized by higher male and lower female participation – using a macro-sociological and cross-national comparative approach. We argue that because gender is produced and justified in the realm of sport, gender gaps in sport event attendance may be more pronounced in some societies than others, depending on the position women and men have in the particular context in which someone ‘does’ his/her gender. So, in addition to individual attributes, one has to consider the societal, macro-level gender equality in order to understand the individual-level gender inequalities in sport event attendance. Using multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data (2007), we evaluate whether the size of the gender gap in sport event attendance varies across European Union (EU) countries and how this variation relates to societal gender equality, as measured by the Gender Equality Index of the European Institute for Gender Equality. We find higher male than female attendance in all EU countries, but also conclude that higher levels of macro-level gender equality are associated with smaller gender gaps in sport event attendance.

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Impact of National Culture on International Human Resource Management

Economic Themes ◽

10.1515/ethemes-2016-0014 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 281-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Biljana Đorđević

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Human Resources ◽

Human Resource Management ◽

Human Resource ◽

National Culture ◽

Human Resources Management ◽

Resources Management ◽

Policies And Procedures ◽

Business Conditions ◽

The Impact

Abstract In today’s business conditions, the internationalisation of business becomes an almost inevitable precondition for future growth and development of organisations. However, internationalisation of business usually requires organisations to implement some changes in the way they operated in the previous period. One of the areas that require some changes is the area of human resource management, too. Factors which require modifications in this system are related primarily to the legal regulations of other countries, but also to the characteristics of their national culture. The former influence comes from the fact that national culture exerts a powerful influence on the system of values, attitudes and behaviour of people in a particular country and, among the other things, on the preferences for policies and procedures in the field of human resources management. Starting from the above, this paper analyses the impact of certain dimensions of national culture on the preferred content of human resources management in organisations in certain countries. The aim of the paper is to provide the theoretical basis for organisations that internationalised their business, or intend to do so, to create system of human resource management in the entities abroad which, at least, will represent the balance between the system that is applied at headquarter and one that is preferred in entities abroad, in order to be effective.

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The impact of organizational culture on business operations in the Republic of Srpska and Serbia

Социолошки дискурс ◽

10.7251/socen1712035v ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

Author(s):

Svetlana Vukotić ◽

Mirjana Čeko ◽

Dragana Gaćinović

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

National Culture ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Business Operations ◽

The Republic ◽

The Impact

This paper primarily provides relevant theoretical framework forexplaining the phenomenon of organizational culture, but also itanalyzes its impact on the business of an enterprise/company andworking atmosphere that occurs as a result of the impact of the organizationalclimate of a given company. Empirical studies on thissubject have been carried out in Serbia and the Republic of Srpska,which allowed us to compare the implementation and the impact ofthe organizational culture in these areas. In an integral part of thesestudies were included: types of organizational culture, the influenceof national culture on organizational culture and determination ofthe level of development of the same, all in order to improve businessoperations in Serbia and the Republic of Srpska.

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National and Organizational Culture, Performance Evaluation and Trust: Evidence from Multinational Company Subsidiary in Indonesia

Signifikan Jurnal Ilmu Ekonomi ◽

10.15408/sjie.v6i2.4733 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 319-344

Author(s):

Unggul Purwohedi

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Performance Evaluation ◽

National Culture ◽

Evaluation Process ◽

Objective Evaluation ◽

Trust Building ◽

Local Staff ◽

Mnc Subsidiary ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of national and organizational culture on the relationship between accounting and trust in a subsidiary of a Western Multi-National Company (MNC) in Indonesia. This study use a qualitative field study of one French MNC subsidiary and interview four expatriate directors, nine Indonesian managers and 10 Indonesian employees. Key themes were identified with the assistance of NVivo software. In this study, accounting, through formal performance evaluation, contributes to trust building between supervisors and their subordinates. Formal performance evaluation through transparent and objective evaluation increases trust in the supervisor. On the other hand, informal performance evaluation tends to decrease trustful behaviour due to secrecy in the evaluation process. It appears that Indonesian national culture does influence organizational culture preference in the local staff. Individuals share national culture as a result of values developed from family, religion, education, and experience.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v6i2.4733

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A call for comparative thinking: Crime, citizenship and security in the global South

South African Crime Quarterly ◽

10.17159/2413-3108/2009/v0i27a936 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa Barolsky ◽

Suren Pillay

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Violent Crime ◽

Crime Rates ◽

Democratic Governance ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Democratic Transitions ◽

The World ◽

Resource Poor ◽

International Comparative ◽

The Impact

This article argues for the importance of an international comparative perspective in terms of our analysis and response to violent crime. This is particularly important in the light of the fact that while an increasing number of countries in the global Southhave achieved formal democracy, they continue to be plagued by high levels of violent crime. In fact, transitions from authoritarian to democratic governance around the world, from Eastern Europe to Latin America and Africa, have been accompanied by escalating violent crime rates. In this context, we have much to learn from an international comparative approach in terms of understanding why democratic transitions are so often accompanied by increases in violence, what the impact of this violence is on the ability of these societies to deepen democracy, and what the most appropriate interventions are in relatively new and often resource poor democracies.

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