This review considers recent theoretical and empirical developments in cross-cultural studies within social and organizational psychology. It begins with a description of the importance and the difficulties of universalizing psychological science. It then continues with an examination of theoretical work on both the internal-proximal and the external-distal constraints that mediate culture's in...

Organizational culture is widely recognized as a significant factor influencing organizational success. A simulation was developed for a high-tech client to direct change in their culture. Simulation content was captured in ethnographic interviews with employees and included cultural ideals. Significant employee attitude change was measured. Teaching students about organizational culture is dif...

This research examines the association between configurations of personal values and managerial incumbency among professionals in Brazil, the US, and Asia. Our research is different from classical leadership research as well as most cross-cultural studies in that it focuses on variance within countries first and then compares results between countries, while the great bulk of research looks at ...

In the current world scenario, we witness more military forces involved in peace support (PSOs) and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations and less in conventional warfare. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN DPKO) website indicates that the post-Cold War decades have seen a big jump in the number of such operations worldwide. Of the 60 operations...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...