The management of people across cultures: Valuing people differently

✍ Scribed by Terence Jackson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4848
• DOI: 10.1002/hrm.10054

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Ethnocentric and parochial human resource systems have been called into question as obstacles to
globalization. This is addressed here by examining the way value is attached to people in organizations across
cultures. Western managers and HR practitioners who work with affiliates in non‐Western emerging
countries should particularly be aware of differences in “locus of human value.” Policies and
practices developed in the West along instrumental lines see people primarily as a means to an end. This may be
directly opposed to a humanistic view of human value that sees people as having a value in themselves. To
provide support for these assumptions, an exploratory study across seven nations was carried out. Its findings
indicate potentially important implications for global HRM policies and practices. © 2002 Wiley
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