Organization's Seminar (2015-02)

Topic: Cultural Regions of North America: Differences in Values and in Roles, Rules and Norms

Speaker: Mark Peterson, Florida Atlantic University

Time: Wednesday, 20 May 16:30-17:30 PM

Location: Room K01, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract:

Studies of qualities of societal culture, including values and social structures, encounter issues of the relative cultural importance of country boundaries as compared to within-country boundaries. The present study uses measures derived from the Schwartz Value Survey and the use of roles, rules and norms as sources of guidance. Using major governmental regions within the United States and Canada, the present study shows a complex combination of country and within-country regional differences in cultural measures administered to working managers with subordinates.

Bio of Speaker:

Dr. Mark F. Peterson is Professor of International Management at Florida Atlantic University and holds the Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity at Maastricht University. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has held Fulbright Chairs in Japan (Osaka University, 1986) and Canada (MacMaster University, 2008). He has held the Gen. John R. Galvin Chair at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2003). He has published over 120 articles and chapters as well as several books. The articles have appeared in major management and international management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Science. He has also contributed international management themes to the basic social science literature through chapters in theAnnual Review of Psychology, the Communication Yearbook, the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, andResearch in the Sociology of Organizations. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He has recently joined David Thomas in completing a third edition of Cross Cultural Management: Essential Concepts (Sage Press, 2015), co-editing with Mikael Soendergaard a focused issue of the Management International Review (2014)about boundaries around cultural groups and editing a four-volume book set, Cross Cultural Research (2015), covering culture throughout the social sciences for Sage Press. Specific topics in his writings include basic conceptual and methods issues in cross cultural research (e.g., boundaries, change, levels of analysis), the role different parties play in decision making in organizations throughout the world, the way immigrant entrepreneur communities operate, and the way that intercultural relationships in multicultural teams and across hierarchical levels should function.

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