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Figure 4.4. Ethno-Religio-Linguistic Fractionalisation for China <strong>and</strong> New Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />

Fractionalisation Type<br />

Country<br />

Ethnic Language Religion<br />

Ug<strong>and</strong>a, high 0.930 0.923 0.633<br />

China 0.154 0.133 0.664<br />

New Zeal<strong>and</strong> 0.397 0.166 0.811<br />

Korea, South, low 0.003 0.002 0.660<br />

National <strong>and</strong> Sub-National Comparisons<br />

This study is restricted to descriptions <strong>of</strong> effects <strong>of</strong> culture on leader behaviour in China<br />

to Guangzhou City, due to strong evidence <strong>of</strong> different culture areas in China.<br />

Investigating this I start with a comparison using the LBDQXII <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ardisation<br />

transformed (named MRAT scores or centred scores) <strong>and</strong> raw score means for four<br />

samples from cities in China: hotel employees in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, <strong>and</strong><br />

Macau SAR, casino employees, <strong>and</strong> a r<strong>and</strong>om sample <strong>of</strong> businesspeople from<br />

Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province, from Littrell, Alon <strong>and</strong> Chan (2006), <strong>and</strong> subsequent<br />

analyses <strong>of</strong> the same data. See Figure 4.5; the top diagram compares tourism industry<br />

employees in Macau <strong>and</strong> Zhengzhou. We see that the Macau hotel <strong>and</strong> casino<br />

employees are similar across most <strong>of</strong> the dimensions, with casino employees indicating<br />

lower preferences for Superior Orientation <strong>and</strong> Consideration (both <strong>of</strong> which are in the<br />

lower half <strong>of</strong> all three samples). The hotel employees in Macau are more similar to the<br />

casino employees in Macau than they are to hotel employees in Zhengzhou, indicating<br />

the existence <strong>of</strong> two different culture areas.<br />

When we add the r<strong>and</strong>om sample <strong>of</strong> businesspeople from Hangzhou, we see that their<br />

responses are quite similar to the Zhengzhou hotel employees’ sample means. Hotel<br />

employees in Zhengzhou have dimension means more similar to a r<strong>and</strong>om sample from<br />

Hangzhou than to a hotel employee sample in Macau, further indicating a North – South<br />

China culture area difference.<br />

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