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- Zander, Lena, et al.
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Cultural Mythology and Global Leadership in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Cultural Mythology and Global Leadership. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781847204035 ; , s. 166-186
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Butler, Christina, et al.
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The business of teaching and learning through multicultural teams
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Teaching in International Business. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0897-5930 .- 1528-6991. ; 19:2, s. 192-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Team working is a key skill students need in this era of global complexity. Here we combine research with practice to develop a model for working in multicultural teams which can be used in International Business curricula. We formulate the 4 Cs model focusing on two areas: composition and communication. These two Cs have been chosen because they are active research areas and because they are the areas that have presented our own student groups with the biggest challenges. Getting these wrong can lead to the third C: conflict. Getting these right can lead to that illusive: fourth C: creativity. We then illustrate how using multicultural teams in international business courses can facilitate the development of inter- and intrapersonal capabilities through conceptual, experiential, experimental, and reflective student learning.
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- Harzing, Anne-Wil, et al.
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Rating versus ranking : What is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research?
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Business Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0969-5931 .- 1873-6149. ; 18:4, s. 417-432
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose solutions to two recurring problems in cross-national research: response style differences and language bias. In order to do so, we conduct a methodological comparison of two different response formats-rating and ranking. For rating, we assess the effect of changing the commonly used 5-point Likert scales to 7-point Likert scales. For ranking, we evaluate the validity of presenting respondents with short scenarios for which they need to rank their top 3 solutions. Our results - based on two studies of 1965 undergraduate and 1714 MBA students in 16 different countries - confirm our hypotheses that both solutions reduce response and language bias, but show that ranking generally is a superior solution. These findings allow researchers to have greater confidence in the validity of cross-national differences if these response formats are used, instead of the more traditional 5-point Likert scales. In addition, our findings have several practical implications for multinational corporations, relating to issues such as selection interviews, performance appraisals, and cross-cultural training.
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- Zander, Lena
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Communication and Country Clusters: A Study of Language and Leadership Preferences
- 2005
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Ingår i: International Studies of Management and Organization. - 0020-8825 .- 1558-0911. ; 35:1, s. 84-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This area of leadership-related communication is underresearched from the employees’ perspective. In earlier research, leadership similarities across groups of countries generated a country cluster taxonomy argued to be based on country commonalities such as language similarities. The assumption is that employees in countries with similar languages will display similar preferences regarding leadership. This study examines whether these clusters can predict employees’ interpersonal leadership communication preferences. Using a database of 15,000 employees in 16 countries across four country clusters, the analysis reveals that the country cluster taxonomy can be used to predict leadership preferences regarding empowering, coaching, and supervising, but not regarding general and personal communication, review of achievement, and positive feedback in the form of making people proud. Instead, six re-configured interpersonal communication clusters are presented. The results challenge an unreflected use of country clusters in international management and specifically indicate that language similarities do not imply similar communication preferences.
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