The impact of cultural values on employee resistance to teams: Toward a model of globalized self-managing work team effectiveness

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Kirkman, BL; Shapiro, DI
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259411
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 730-757
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS; management; collectivism; preferences; COMMITMENT; context; task; individualism; ORGANIZATION

摘要

As ct result of both global competition and company downsizing, multinational firms increasingly are using self-managing work teams (SMWTs) in their foreign affiliates. in this article we identify several cultural values that likely will affect whether employees within those facilities will resist the self-management-relatad and team-related aspects of SMWTs. Further, we argue that the success of SMWTs is related to the extent to which organizations effectively manage culture-based resistance to SMWTs. We then conclude with theoretical implications and recommendations for managers implementing teams globally.