Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
2-2019
Abstract
Modern organizations often involve workgroup members who have different cultural heritage. This article provides an examination of how different cultural dimensions (e.g., uncertainty avoidance, individualism–collectivism) influence the ways that workgroups and their members respond to situations that involve threats and rewards. The threats and rewards activate distinct response patterns that are associated with a motivational systems theory of group involvement. Based on this theoretical foundation, a cultural dispositions approach is applied to reveal how culture could impact the ways group members respond (cognitively, affectively, motivationally) to situations that involve varying degrees of threats or rewards. This focus on cultural dispositions locates this article in the larger theoretical context of persons within situations that account for complexities of threat and reward cues as well as groups, organizations, and cultures. Consequently, this article has broad implications to the scientific and applied science communities interested in multicultural workgroups.
Keywords
multicultural, workgroups, cultural dispositions, motivational systems, approach motivation, avoidance motivation, groups, teams
Discipline
Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Multicultural Psychology | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Small Group Research
Volume
50
Issue
1
First Page
81
Last Page
137
ISSN
1046-4964
Identifier
10.1177/1046496418797443
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
HINSZ, Verlin B., PARK, Ernest, LEUNG, Angela K. Y., & LADBURY, Jared.(2019). Cultural disposition influences in workgroups: A motivational systems theory of group involvement perspective. Small Group Research, 50(1), 81-137.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3040
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496418797443
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