Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology - Oxford Handbooks

Research on leadership in a cross-cultural context: Making progress, and raising new questions

It is almost cliché to say that there has been an explosion in the amount of research on leadership in a cross-cultural context. In this review, we describe major advances and emerging patterns in this research domain over the last several years. Our starting point for this update is roughly 1996–1997, since those are the dates of two important reviews of the cross-cultural leadership literatur...

A Review of Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian’s The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion

This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.

Causal Cognition and Culture - Oxford Handbooks

Causality is a core concept of human cognition, but the extent to which cultural factors constrain, trigger, or shape the way in which humans think about causal relationships has barely been explored. This chapter summarizes empirical findings on the potential for cultural variability in the content of causal cognition, in the way this content is processed, and in the context in which all this ...

G.P. Hodgkinson and W. Starbuck (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making Oxford: Oxford University Press. EMPLOYING ADAPTIVE STRUCTURING AS COGNITIVE DECISION AID IN HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANIZATIONS

Cross-cultural organizational behavior.

This article reviews research on cross-cultural organizational behavior (OB). After a brief review of the history of cross-cultural OB, we review research on work motivation, or the factors that energize, direct, and sustain effort across cultures. We next consider the relationship between the individual and the organization, and review research on culture and organizational commitment, psychol...