CULTURAL RELATIVITY IN ACTION: A COMPARISON OF SELF‐RATINGS MADE BY CHINESE AND U.S. WORKERS
作者:
JIING‐LIH FARH,
GREGORY H. DOBBINS,
BOR‐SHIUAN CHENG,
期刊:
Personnel Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 1
页码: 129-147
ISSN:0031-5826
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1991.tb00693.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Using a sample of 982 leader‐subordinate dyads drawn from nine different organizations in the Republic of China (i.e., Taiwan), self‐ratings of performance were compared with supervisory ratings of subordinate performance. Results indicated that Chinese employees rated their job performance less favorably than did their supervisors (i.e., they exhibited a modesty bias). This modesty bias occurred relatively uniformly across gender, various educational levels, and age groups. These results are contrary to the typically reported U.S. finding that self‐ratings of performance are more lenient than are supervisory ratings. A further comparison of the means of supervisory and self‐ratings between this study and previous U.S. research revealed that the modesty bias appeared to be produced by the lower self‐ratings made by Chinese workers as compared to their U.S. counterparts. The findings suggest that culture plays a critical role in shaping workers' perceptions of their own work performance. Results of this study are discussed in terms of their implications for future research and practice in international human resource m
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