Chinese workers' work ethic in reformed state-owned enterprises: implications for HRD

Li, Jessica; Madsen, Jean

doi:10.1080/13678860902764100

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“…However, individuals who endorsed the Protestant work ethic pursued personal success simply through hard work and persistence. Chinese employees also expect to get their supervisor"s acknowledgement (Li and Madsen, 2009). The results of our study partially support the role of Confucian work ethics in individual production deviance.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…This study focuses on the individual level of the Confucian work ethics (CWE), which stems from Confucian values and is a motivational construct reflected in behavior and related to attitudes and beliefs in work-related activity in general, not specific to any particular job. CWE emphasize persistence, patience, endurance, and tolerance of others in the workplace (Fang, 2003;Li and Madsen, 2009 Prior studies have explored the influence of CWE on employees" attitudes and behaviors at the individual level in disciplines such as Organizational Behavior and Management. For example, Lim (2003) found that CWE were positively associated with individuals" inclination to budget their money.…”

Section: Defined By Chinese Cultural Connection (1987) and Rooted In mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does IT team climate matter? An empirical study of the impact of co-workers and the Confucian work ethic on deviance behavior

Zhang

Luo

Liao³

et al. 2015

Information & Management

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confidence: 72%

Section: Defined By Chinese Cultural Connection (1987) and Rooted In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does IT team climate matter? An empirical study of the impact of co-workers and the Confucian work ethic on deviance behavior

Zhang

Luo

Liao³

et al. 2015

Information & Management

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“…To develop an in‐depth understanding of the currently held work‐related values and attitudes among Chinese workers, two qualitative interview studies were conducted previously to provide contextual sensitivity for this study. The findings of the qualitative interview studies exposed the differences between the Western and Eastern work ethic profiles (Li & Madsen, , ). In this study, we intend to combine the findings of the qualitative studies conducted in China and the Western work ethic research to bring out the contextual influences of the Eastern perspective without disregarding the accomplishments of the Western work ethic research.…”

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confidence: 99%

Development and validation of work ethic instrument to measure Chinese people's work‐related values and attitudes

Huang

Hedayati‐Mehdiabadi

et al. 2019

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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Work ethic, a construct of work‐related values and attitudes, is believed to have a direct impact on how people approach work, work behavior, and on‐the‐job performance. When people experience social transformations, their work‐related values and attitudes change. The Chinese society has experienced significant transformations over an extended period of economic reform. This study is designed to develop and validate a work ethic instrument that can be used to measure current Chinese people's work‐related values and attitudes. To be sensitive to the Chinese context, this study follows a process of systematic cross‐context theory borrowing: borrowing a validated western work ethic instrument developed by Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth (2002) and incorporating the findings of two qualitative studies on Chinese work ethic profile conducted previously in China to initiate the instrument development. This paper presents the research process including the data collection, instrument development, and instrument validation. A multigenerational and multiregional sample of 928 was used to conduct the study. The findings suggested an eight‐dimensional profile of Chinese workers' work ethic with a robust model fit. The eight dimensions are the concept of time, work centrality, morality, leisure, delay of gratification, hard work, group dynamics, and commitment to education. Implications for the field of human resource development, limitations of the study, and calls for future research are also presented.

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“…Work ethic is a construct of moral belief that stresses the importance of working hard and the commitment of appropriate work-related values and attitudes (Li and Madsen 2009;Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth 2002). Employees possessing strong work ethic would demonstrate good values not only through hard work but also autonomy, fairness, wisdom, time management, refrainment from immediate gratification and an appreciation of the intrinsic value of work (Cherrington 1980;Dubin 1963;Furnham 1984;Ho and Lloyd 1984;Weber 1958;Wollack et al 1971).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Validity Study of the mwep Scale in Hong Kong

Kwong¹,

Wan²

2017

MNG

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This article examines the validity of the Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile, mwep, in the Hong Kong setting. Purposive quota sampling is adopted to solicit data from a total of 140 respondents with equal gender distribution across seven age groups in Hong Kong. Factor analysis reveals that similarity exists between factor loadings in original mwep model of Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth (2002) and the model in the current study with Hong Kong samples. However, the mwep items in the current study does not map exactly into the seven dimensions proposed by Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth. The leisure and the morality/ethics dimensions match with the original scale respectively with good and poor reliabilities, but the hard work and wasted time dimensions have intertwined and appeared to be inseparable.

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Chinese workers' work ethic in reformed state-owned enterprises: implications for HRD

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

Does IT team climate matter? An empirical study of the impact of co-workers and the Confucian work ethic on deviance behavior

Does IT team climate matter? An empirical study of the impact of co-workers and the Confucian work ethic on deviance behavior

Development and validation of work ethic instrument to measure Chinese people's work‐related values and attitudes

A Validity Study of the mwep Scale in Hong Kong

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