Preferences and Perceptions of Workplace Participation: A Cross-Cultural Study.

ABSTRACT: Despite the amount of theorization on the forms and effects of participation, relatively little research directly examines what the concept of workplace participation entails in the minds of employees, and whether employees across cultures think positively when the concept of participation is activated in their mental representation. Three studies (n = 1,138 full-time employees) investigated the perceptions and preferences of full-time employees from the United States and China, cultures that might be expected to differ in their societal participation norm. Using a free association test and text analyses, Study 1 demonstrated that Chinese and American employees differed in their construal of workplace participation, yet both culture groups associated positive valence to the concept

SUBMITTER: Wu SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882961 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature