Culture and endorsed organizational leadership behaviors: Portugal and China

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Hélder
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/4901
• topic: Culture; Leadership; Portugal; China; Cultura; Liderança

Understanding the cultural diversity that has long characterized mankind and the respective accepted behaviors is more important now than ever. The exponential growth of the last decades in interactions between individuals from different cultures, either due economical reasons or social ones, caused by the globalization phenomenon is an assurance of that necessity. Facing the increasing importance of China in the world juncture this dissertation has as an objective to determine to which extent a Portuguese manager working in China will be successful if he or she displays the same set of leadership behaviors espoused in his or her homeland. In order to achieve the objective, a cross-cultural leadership analysis between the two societies was conducted, where the conclusions obtained during the cross-cultural literature review, where afterwards verified by the findings obtained in result of the empirical study conducted later. The research showed considerable resemblances between both cultural profiles and the respective endorsed leadership profile, nevertheless there were also found several discrepancies which in the end might contribute to undermine the manager’s capacity to lead and to effectively achieve his professional goal targets.