Big five personality traits, job satisfaction and subjective wellbeing in China
- Authors: Zhai, Qingguo , Willis, Mike , O'Shea, Bob , Zhai, Yubo , Yang, Yuwen
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Psychology Vol. 48, no. 6 (December 2013), p. 1099-1108
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- Description: This paper examines the effect of the Big Five personality traits on job satisfaction and subjective wellbeing (SWB). The paper also examines the mediating role of job satisfaction on the Big Five-SWB relationship. Data were collected from a sample of 818 urban employees from five Chinese cities: Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Dalian, and Fushun. All the study variables were measured with well-established multi-item scales that have been validated both in English-speaking populations and in China. The study found only extraversion to have an effect on job satisfaction, suggesting that there could be cultural difference in the relationships between the Big Five and job satisfaction in China and in the West. The study found that three factors in the Big Fiveextraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticismhave an effect on SWB. This finding is similar to findings in the West, suggesting convergence in the relationship between the Big Five and SWB in different cultural contexts. The research found that only the relationship between extraversion and SWB is partially mediated by job satisfaction, implying that the effect of the Big Five on SWB is mainly direct, rather than indirect via job satisfaction. The study also found that extraversion was the strongest predictor of both job satisfaction and SWB. This finding implies that extraversion could be more important than other factors in the Big Five in predicting job satisfaction and SWB in a high collectivism and high power distance country such as China. The research findings are discussed in the Chinese cultural context. The study also offers suggestions on the directions for future research.
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Tradition versus change : Evaluating the currency of some traditional chinese values in today's business environment
- Authors: Willis, Mike
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Global Marketing Vol. 22, no. 1 (2009), p. 67-89
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- Description: Is tradition dead in China?or, at least, are traditional values dead in a China that has moved progressively into a globalized society and market orientation? This is the question raised in this paper, which assessed how a range of traditional values were conceptualized by a younger generation of Chinese managers who now live and work in a variety of worldsglobal, local, international, and traditional. What was found that traditional values still remained used and relevant in China, but they had now tended to develop a harder and more westernized edgesharper, tougher, and more ruthless. Values that were once intuitive and almost innate now tended to be measured and compartmentalized. For example, the value of faceas a traditional valuewas still important but was now more than likely a value to be treated as an almost measurable aspect of behavior.
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