Study on employees' culture-specific behavior and consciousness in Chinese corporate organization

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04034
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Saitama Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: FURUSAWA Teruyuki 埼玉学園大学, 人間学部, 教授 (00261090)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 張 英莉 埼玉学園大学, 経営学部, 教授 (00272782) ; 村田 和博 下関市立大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00300567) ; 平野 賢哉 東洋学園大学, 東洋学園大学現代経営学部, 教授 (60352803)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 権威勾配 / ワーク・エンゲイジメント / 面子 / 人情 / 関係 / モチベーション / 中国人従業員 / ストレス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Face, human feelings and relations are elements that explain behaviors peculiar to Chinese. The act of disgracing face of Chinese employees causes a decrease of motivation, an increase of stress, and an increase of resignation. Management that attaches importance to human feelings and relations is carried out in China. Besides, authority gradient was used to measure the relationship between superiors and subordinates. When the authority gradient was sharp, there was a decline of loyalty to organization, the false obedience of subordinates, the decline of work engagement, and the decline of interaction between superiors and subordinates. The Japanese-affiliated companies to run in China will create unnecessary conflict with the local employees or resignation unless careful consideration is given to awareness peculiar to Chinese such as face.

Free Research Field

社会心理学