Culture, participative decision making and job satisfaction

De Wet van der Westhuizen, Gail Pacheco and Don Webber
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De Wet van der Westhuizen: Department of Economics, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

No 1010, Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: This study explores the impact of culture on participative decision making (PDM) and job satisfaction (JS) using data obtained from the European Values Study. We parameterise two different cultural variables using principal components analysis: first a continuum based on survival versus self-expression values, and second a continuum based on traditional versus secular-rational values. Application of ordered logistic regression to Likert scales of PDM and JS suggest that greater self-expression in the survival versus self-expression variable enhances both PDM and JS; more traditional values in the traditional versus secular-rational continuum have the same effect.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; participatory decision making; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-10
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