comparative value priorities of chinese and new zealand

CHAPTER 6: IMPLICATIONS OF RESULTS, CONCLUSIONS, AND
INDICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme
positions.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
From interpretations of analyses of my data, contributions of study of the relationships
between individual values as predictors of leader behaviour preferences different
between samples of businesspeople from Guangzhou City, China, and New Zealand to
the body of knowledge relating to theory and measurement of individual values and
preferred leader behaviour are:
� An important characteristic of proposed theoretical value dimensions is that they
yield similar measures for similar samples, and that differences in results of
measurement amongst differing samples and populations can be explained; this
study suggests thare are important issues in lack of cross-cultural invariance of
dimensions defined in the Schwartz values theory; my results indicate a great
deal of work needs to be done to investigate the reliability and validity of the
theory and measuring instruments in East and South Asia;
� Fewer problems but similar issues noted in the first bullet point exist for the
leader behaviour theory and the LBDQXII.
� Contributions useful to international business practitioners include sets of
behaviours to be cultivated and avoided by managerial leaders engaged with
leaders and subordinates in Guangzhou City, China, and New Zealand. These
findings can provide a base of expansion of research within China and across
other societies.
Answering the Research Questions
My research questions centre on the relationships between individuals’ values and
preferred leader behaviour. I discuss these questions in the context of Schwartz’ theory
of individual values (Schwartz, 1992, 1994) and the Ohio State theory of explicit
preferred leader behaviour (Stogdill, 1963, 1974), as operationalised by the set of scores
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