Methodological Issues in Cross‐Cultural Organizational Research
Methodological Issues in Cross‐Cultural Organizational Research
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跨文化组织研究中的方法论问题
DOI：
10.1002/9780470756669.ch11
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
11.6
通讯作者：
K. Ehrhart
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作者：
M. Gelfand;Jana L. Raver;K. Ehrhart
工业和组织心理学成立一个世纪以来（Muchinsky，2000），这个领域有很多值得庆祝的事情。在选拔、培训和绩效评估以及组织态度、动机、压力、领导力和团队动力等领域取得了重大理论进展。同样，正如本书所证明的那样，该领域在方法论多样性方面取得了突飞猛进的发展，为该领域研究的现象提供了急需的复杂性。在本章中，我们通过关注 IO 心理学中经常被忽视的主题，即进行跨文化组织研究的方法论问题，进一步推进这种多样性。如下所述，出于理论和实践原因，该领域迫切需要全球化。然而，强调全球化需要增加方法论的复杂性和进行高质量研究的新判断，这也是本章的中心焦点。 接下来，我们首先讨论在信息科学领域进行跨文化研究的必要性，以及文化研究可以给该领域带来的众多好处。接下来，我们关注文化如何渗透到实际的研究过程本身。我们描述了在此过程中出现的具体文化问题，以及在跨文化研究的设计和实施中考虑这些问题的潜在方法。最后，我们讨论了跨文化研究方法的未来，以及它们可能为该领域带来的前景。
A century beyond the founding of industrial and organizational psychology (Muchinsky, 2000) the field has much to celebrate. There has been major theoretical progress in areas as diverse as selection, training, and performance appraisal, as well as organizational attitudes, motivation, stress, leadership, and team dynamics. Likewise, as this volume attests, the field has grown leaps and bounds in its methodological diversity, offering much-needed complexity for the phenomena studied in the field. In this chapter, we take this diversity further by focusing on an often-neglected topic in IO psychology, namely methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural organizational research. As noted below, for both theoretical and practical reasons, there is an urgent need for the field to become global. Becoming global in emphasis, however, requires added methodological complexity and new judgment in conducting high-quality research, which is the central focus of this chapter.In what follows, we first discuss the necessity of conducting cross-cultural research in IO, and the numerous benefits that research on culture can bring to the field. Next, we focus on how culture infiltrates the actual research process itself. We describe the specific cultural concerns that arise during this process, as well as potential ways to take such issues into account in the design and implementation of cross-cultural research. We conclude with a discussion of the future of cross-cultural research methods, and the promise they may offer the field.