从外派高管看跨文化领导行为调整

A View from Expatriate Executives to Cross-cultural Leadership Adjustment

通过对来自40个国家,16个行业,354位在中国工作的外派高管的问卷调查,本文对跨文化情境下的领导行为调整开展主题研究,识别出行为调整的两大主题——调整自身领导行为和改变组织内部环境,以及七个亚维度,打开了领导者与下属双向互动的视角。进而生成了四种行为调整模式:复制、吸收、决定和探索,并从母国、外派年限、行业、年龄和性别五个方面分析了模式分布的差异性。最后,对71对外派高管与中国下属的配对样本进行单因素协方差分析,考察了四种跨文化领导行为调整模式在领导有效性上存在的差异。本文的研究发现对外派领导者的角色期待、行为调整和跨文化适应性改变提供了实证依据。

The present paper analyzes the cross-cultural leadership behavior adjustment based on the data of 354 expatriate executives from 40 countries and 16 industries.Two themes are identified:leaders'behavioral adjustment and internal organizational environment coordination.Four modes of behavior adjustment are proposed:replication,absorption,determination and Eeploration.Distribution of modes on home country,expatriate tenure,industry,age and gender are explored.Furthermore,One-Way ANOVA is used to analyze 71 paired samples of expatriate executives and their direct subordinates,aiming to compare the differences of leadership effectiveness on modes of cross-cultural leadership behavior adjustment.The findings of this paper sheds light on role expectation,behavioral adjustment and cross-cultural adaptability for expatriate executives.