Work
Values of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Business Workers
H. Yamauchi |
The
purpose of this study was to investigate some differences in the
relative importance of work values among Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
business workers. Data were collected from samples of men and women
workers 20- to 40- yrs.-old in Japan, Korea, and China from 1990
to 1992. The questionnaire was composed of 24 work value items and
subjects were asked to indicate how important they felt each work
value was to their work. The method of dual scaling was applied to
the rating data of work values, and then the rank orders of work
values were obtained from the optimal weights for work values calculated
by the program DUAL3SC. The rank orders of work values showed differences
in the relative importance of specific work values in the various
samples. To obtain a mufti-dimensional structure of work values,
the method of dual scaling was applied again to the rank order data.
The program DUAL3RO yielded three-dimensional optimal weights for
work values and samples: The common importance of work values, cultural
differences in the importance of work values, and gender differences
in the importance of work values.
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