Reward allocations in the United States, Japan, and Korea: a comparison of individualistic and collectivist cultures

Article Abstract:

This study replicated earlier work comparing reward allocation preferences across countries. Results obtained from student groups from the United States, Japan, and South Korea supported the earlier findings. Most noteworthy was a strong universal reward allocation pattern that approximated the equity norm, according to which, rewards are distributed to group members based on their contributions. However, the groups from the United States and Japan, countries that previous research on culture has identified as respectively very individualistic and very masculine, exhibited a stronger preference for equity than the group from South Korea, a country that earlier data have shown to be neither individualistic nor masculine. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

United States, South Korea, Japan, Social policy, Korea, South

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Distinguishing the effects of functional and dysfunctional conflict on strategic decision making: resolving a paradox for top management teams

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Top management teams make strategic decisions, and the products of their decision making influence organizational performance. However, a subtle paradox is embedded in this relationship. This study focuses on conflict as the crux of this paradox and provides evidence from two different samples of conflict's consistent yet contradictory effects on decision quality, consensus, and affective acceptance. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Strategic planning (Business), Conflict management, Decision-making, Group, Group decision making

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