Overview:: Understanding values and expectations of foreign employees creates a better company

Michael Segalla

European Management Journal, 2001, vol. 19, issue 1, 27-31

Abstract: This study finds that nationality and cultural group are good determinants of many common managerial problems related to human resource management, especially in situations of cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures and alliances. This conclusion is based on the results of the first phase of a large European study on managerial decision-making. Nearly 300 managers participated in this phase, which surveyed 25 firms from the financial sectors of France, German, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The author develops the hypothesis that two different decision logics, economic rationality and group rationality, co-exist and are used independently to create and justify organisational policies. He suggests that some cultures are better able to balance the competing logics by compartmentalising them in such a way that they are used for different type of common problems.

Keywords: Cross-cultural; values; Managerial; values; International; management; Cultural; psychology; Organisational; theory; Cross-border; mergers; and; acquisitions; Employee; expectations; Employer; expectations; Strategic; human; resource; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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