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Preferred Leader Behaviour across Cultures project that I manage is to improve the
culture-free characteristics of that survey instrument.
Yegane, Su and Chrysostome (2004) provide a recent critical review relating
specifically to cross cultural research, and pointed out that cross-cultural management
research suffers from many shortcomings, some related to methodology, others can be
identified as epistemological and ontological problems. One can conclude from this
review that a positivistic, empirical approach with carefully defined operational
definitions, employing rigorous and appropriate analytic methods is the appropriate
means of dealing with these problems. The issues are noted in Figure 4.2.
Philosophy of
Science Issue:
Pragmatic issue to
be considered:
Figure 4.2. Philosophy of Science Issues
Ontology
Existence: How does
the researcher
demonstrate that the
phenomenon under
study is a real
phenomenon, e.g.,
culture, cultural
dimensions?
In this study: Minkov (2007)
proposes that cultural
dimensions are
artefacts created from
imposing a template on
a continuum. The
templates imposed in
this study are of people
working and living in
the cultural ecologies
of New Zealand and
Guangzhou, China
2004-2007.
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Epistemology
Truth: How does the
researcher make a case
that the research process
actually provides a
sufficiently accurate
measure of the
phenomenon under
study?
I will follow the rules of
evidence from empirical
social science research.
Methodology
Reliability: How does
the researcher make a
case that the research
process will produce
similar results in similar
situations, and nearidentical
results in nearidentical
situations?
The research instruments
have been subjected to
extensive translation and
validation across
cultures.
Ontological issues considered in this study consist of dimensions of preferred leader
behaviour. Cultural dimensions theories are a generally accepted measurable