| 1382 - HOME CULTURE AFFECTS ETHICAL AND WORK VALUES OF MNC HOST COUNTRY NATIONAL EMPLOYEES: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF THAILAND, THE UK AND JAPAN |
| Authors : Sachiko Takeda - BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, Davide Secchi - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK |
| Thursday, June 18, 2015 - Slot 3 (09:30 - 11:00) |
| D 205 |
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| Albeit multination corporations’ (MNCs’) being one of the most significant aspects of the global economy, their impact on employee values remains relatively overlooked. This study addresses this gap and, focusing on values related to ethical judgement, investigates the value adaptation of MNC host country national employees to those of the home country culture, as a result of socialisation and/or acculturation. The data was collected from 476 Thai employees of a Japanese-owned MNC, a UK-owned MNC and a Thai-owned organisation, all located in Thailand. Findings suggest socialisation/acculturation affects the local Thai employees of MNCs in regards to the values related to collectivism, ethical relativism, collective responsibility allocation preference, nepotism tolerance and pay differentiation tolerance. Our results further suggest that value differentiations amongst the three groups of employees to be contributable not only to the effects of socialisation/acculturation but to a combined result of socialisation/acculturation and recruitment/selection. Organisations seem to use both functions to bring their employees’ values closer to those of their home cultures in regards to the values related to ethical decision making. |
| Keywords : work values; MNC employees; socialisation |
