By contrasting EFT performance between southern and northern Chinese, we have contributed to this field of research, showing that members of individualist cultures tend to perceive an object context-independently, as single entities, whereas members of
collectivist cultures focus on the relationship between objects and the entire field.
Studies revealed the existence of both individualist and
collectivist values among people at the same time (Mishra, 1994; Sinha & Tripathi, 1994).
Happiness through harmony and unity in the family:
Collectivist orientation Family life is the reference point for group idea of happiness.
She points to the sacrifice in wars that were fought to ensure they would never happen again, as if to imply those men and women, who died, would cede our sovereignty to the
collectivists.
The tendency to emphasis on group preferences and group harmony in
collectivist cultures leads to an ability to repress internal (personal) attributes in certain settings.
Hypothesis 3: An individualist negotiator with high relative bargaining power will have a greater likelihood of initiating a negotiation (engaging, requesting, optimizing) than will a
collectivist negotiator with high relative bargaining power.
To maintain this power, the
collectivist conditions both physician and patient to live in fear.
2000), we more directly address the causal chain by examining the intermediate effect of exchange ideology on the
collectivist value orientation to behavioral intent link.
The important point in this construal of one's self-identity is that the self in
collectivist societies is viewed as related to others and as interdependent with them.
This study uses thirty groups each of individualist culture and
collectivist culture, working in groups of two auditors to examine how auditors from the two cultures revise their estimates of budgeted audit hours in an audit planning setting after receiving additional audit evidence which may either be relatively unfavourable or favourable compared to the initial information.
The meaning of conservatives'
collectivist position against the individual's right to end his own life is that individuals must suffer for the alleged good of the collective.
Moreover individual group members' average propensity to distrust will be higher in organizations from
collectivist than from individualist cultures.
