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- Title
Chinese Cultural Values and Performance at Job Interviews: A Singapore Perspective.
- Authors
Wong, Irene F. H.; Phoo-Ching, Lai
- Abstract
In a country like Singapore, which is rated high in power distance and low in individualism (using Hofstede's dimensions of national cultures), interviews for entry-level positions in multinational corporations (MNCs) may reveal subtle clashes in culture. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed transcripts of job interviews involving nine English-Speaking applicants from Chinese backgrounds and two experienced interviewers from Anglo-American MNCs in Singapore. Our assumption was that a person's cultural background and upbringing influence his other performance at job interviews. The findings reveal that Chinese applicants tend to defer to the interviewer (i.e. superior) and focus on the group or family, besides being averse to self-assertion. Hence, applicants from a Chinese background may be disadvantaged when being interviewed for jobs with MNCs which are heavily influenced by Anglo-American culture.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; INTERVIEWING; JOB hunting; COMMUNICATION &; culture; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; CULTURE; ORAL communication; POWER (Social sciences); COMMUNICATION; DIVERSITY in the workplace; INDIVIDUALISM; ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology); FOREIGN business enterprises
- Publication
Business Communication Quarterly, 2000, Vol 63, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1080-5699
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/108056990006300102