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Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23131 Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values Cook, Jonathan Dawn.Harris@standardbank.co.za Harris, Dawn UCTD Exparatriation Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The selection of this study topic was based on specific problems being experienced within the Standard Bank environment, but which are also valid for all organisations having business dealings with India. India is one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India China) and therefore it is almost guaranteed that there will be increasing interactions between South African organisations and Indian knowledge workers that necessitate the mutual understanding of cultural distinction. With such vast perceived differences in the values and cultures of South African and Indians, together with this future working relationship, it is important to understand what the key drivers are in both sets of working professionals in order to ensure a long and mutually benefitial working relationship. The study is a quantitative study, based primarily on the findings of Globe Study, (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, Gupta) on four value drivers, i.e Performance Orientation, Collectivism, Power Distance, and Uncertainty Avoidance. Each of these values were broken down into sub-values and were then analysed for variances between the two sample populations. Findings were, in the most part, inconclusive. There are indeed differences in the perceptions of the groups on these value items, but many are not statistically different enough to be attributed to national culture. A larger sample may reveal different results, but conclusions in this paper are that, even with differences in some sub-items, in general, Indians only score higher on Performance Orientation, out of the four Hypothesis. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:38:46Z 2010-04-22 2013-09-06T14:38:46Z 2008-11-13 2010-04-22 2010-03-12 Dissertation Harris, D 2008, Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23131 > G10/23/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23131 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-145314/ © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Exparatriation Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title | Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title_full | Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title_fullStr | Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title_full_unstemmed | Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title_short | Managing expatriated Indians in South African organisations through understanding their values |
| title_sort | managing expatriated indians in south african organisations through understanding their values |
| topic | UCTD Exparatriation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23131 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-145314/ |