comparative value priorities of chinese and new zealand

City, China, and New Zealand indicate complex differences in the individual values and
preferred leader behaviours for businesspeople from the two culture areas. The
conclusions and implications will be discussed more thoroughly in Chapter 6, a
summary that can be drawn from these analyses include:
1. Businesspeople tend to have an individual value priority structure different from
samples with non-business vocations.
2. New Zealand businesspeople have a different value priority structure from
Guangzhou City businesspeople.
3. The relationships of individual values as predictors of preferred leader behaviour
dimensions are different between New Zealand and Guangzhou City.
4. Male and female businesspeople have similar individual value priorities and
leader behaviour preferences; there were minor male-female differences between
NZ and GZ, and within GZ.
Concerning the theory development and testing techniques:
1. The Multiple Dimension Scaling Smallest Space Analysis technique used standalone
is a questionable tool for finalising theory development, particularly when
visual inspection is employed for defining dimensions. Coupling the technique
with Oblique Factor Analysis could produce a more defensible model.
2. Using SSA for a goodness of fit assessment, the New Zealand data fit the SSA
model relatively well, with a somewhat different structure than Schwartz’ in the
Self Enhancement and Openness to Change regions. The Guangzhou, China data
did not match Schwartz’ theoretical circumplex in detail.
3. From another view, the Schwartz Values Survey value priorities dimension
model using SEM as a technique to assess goodness of fit indicates a good fit for
the New Zealand sample of businesspeople, and a marginally good fit for the
sample from Guangzhou City, China.
4. Using SEM, the LBDQXII leader behaviour dimension model indicates my
sample data have a good fit to the model. However, there are psychometric
problems with the set of items and developing a new survey and perhaps a new
model will be investigated in the future.
Further interpretation and discussion of results are carried out in Chapter 6.
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