"Does West ""Fit"" with East?: In Search of a Chinese Model of Person- Environment Fit"

Chuang, Aichia; Hsu, Ryan Shuwei; Wang, An-Chih; Judge, Timothy A.

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“…Consistent with a previous study [23], the current study showed that respondents who have worked in the hospital for 15 or more years perceived less stress compared to younger nurses. Family life and associated family-work conflicts could be a source of stress [13,14,18]. Current research provides additional evidence by showing that the married nurses with two or three children perceived greater stress compared to those who were single or had no children.…”

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“…Scientific studies on stress attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines; yet, mainstream studies focus on the interaction of personal reactions with the job environment [2,8,9,11], suggesting that the "fit" between someone's personal qualities and his/her job environment may determine the magnitude of job stress. The higher the fit between the person and his/her work environment (PE fit), the lower the possibility and magnitude of job stress [13,14]. We may infer that if the individual works in a place where the members are highly similar to each other in terms of professional knowledge, training, and capability and, in many cases, offer supplementary hospital services [12], then the congruence between individual professional capabilities and job environments tends to be high [15].…”

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“…As Schneider noted, the PE fit should include at least the national culture in the relation between the individual's PE fit and affective outcome [15,16]. Previous studies have generally agreed that western culture is more individually oriented, wherein an individual is separate from the environment, whereas the Confucian Oriental model is relational and "selfhood-oriented", wherein an individual is relational, behaves in response to others, and is self-cultivating in response to the social environment [13,15]. Since an individual's job stress is aligned with her or his subjective perception of PE fit, and to take the regional subculture may exist in the Easter Taiwan, we further explore how the P-E fit in this particular region affect the perceived stress and health.…”

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Exploring the Stresses and Health of the Nurses in the Psychiatric Hospitals in Eastern Taiwan: Does the Leisure Destination Location Help Nurses Cope with Stress?

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Background: It has been suggested that nurses who care for the mentally ill patients are exposed to increased stress and have poorer health status. Leisure and tourism have been proposed to be effective sources of stress coping. The purpose of this research was to investigate stress and health of nurses working in the psychiatric hospitals in the eastern Taiwan, which was known for its excellent tourism resources. Methods: Samples were purposively selected from the nursing staffs of two major psychiatry hospitals in the region. Overall, 333 valid responses were gathered using Short Form-36 (SF-36) for health status and the Nursing Staffs Pressure Scale measuring job stressors. Results: The perceived job stress varied significantly by age and job position. The perceived health status varied significantly by services, seniorities, marital, and numbers of children. The job stress correlated negatively with the health status. Family obligation and person-environment fit may explain why nurses in this particular area experience higher stress and poorer health status compared to their colleagues in the west. Conclusion: Although nurses in the eastern Taiwan receive relatively attractive compensation package and enjoy social status in an economically less developed area with abundant tourism resources, they experience higher stress and worse health. Nursing professionals with higher socioeconomic status are in fact inversely exposed to greater stress, of which detrimental to their levels of person-environment fit. Since the leisure and tourism resources may not be effective alternatives for coping with stress and the family obligation has a strong association with the poor health status, a supportive system is apparently needed.

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“…Moral motivations refer to instances where intrinsic values are used as the basis for adopting EM or CR strategies. In the Chinese context, moral motivations could be based on Confucian principles, which have guided family and business relations for thousands of years [23][24][25][26][27]. Many firms in China generally embrace Confucian values, often implicitly, as the foundation of EM or CR activities.…”

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Environmental Protection and Corporate Responsibility: The Perspectives of Senior Managers and CxOs in China

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2019

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In the mid-2000s, China’s environmental crisis had become a major social and political ‘hot spot’. In the interest of civic conciliation, national stability, and performance legitimacy, the Chinese government responded by introducing the ‘Scientific Approach to Development’ as part of the 11th Five-Year Plan in 2005. It signaled a significant policy shift, in which the government reoriented China’s national goals away from ‘Growth First’ policies and toward a model of sustainable development. In this study, we explore how Chinese business leaders reacted to this significant policy change. Specifically, our aim is three-fold: (1) to identify how senior managers and CxOs (executives or owners of enterprises, including CEOs, CFOs, CSOs) of Chinese firms responded to the explicit and systemic introduction of environmental management in the 11th Five-Year Plan; (2) examine motivations and justifications associated with their responses; (3) and explore contexts in which different motivations connected to organizational change and its management. In our study, we examine the perspectives of 72 senior managers and CxOs in China. We find that the integration of environmental management and corporate responsibility policies was predominately driven by national, international, and market contexts, and motivated by instrumental, relational, and moral considerations. We identify complex strategies and implementation plans that transformed government directives into multiple and overlapping business strategies. The main contribution of our study is the identification of specific sets of strategies employed by firms to concurrently comply with government directives and seek profits. Broadly speaking, these environmental management strategies are divided into compliance, a pursuit of competitive advantage, and a structural integration of environmental management.

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“…With larger psychic distance (China to Australia), this research may effectively explore cross-cultural capabilities. Thus, the first study used a purposive sampling strategy (Patton, 1990 Confucian culture, the approach of personal contacts has been acknowledged as a way to gather quality information that respondents may not be willing to share with unfamiliar investigators (Chuang, Hsu, Wang, & Judge, 2015;Tsang, 1998b). In order to achieve rich data, personal or business contacts were used to identify possible participants.…”

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"Does West ""Fit"" with East?: In Search of a Chinese Model of Person- Environment Fit"

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Exploring the Stresses and Health of the Nurses in the Psychiatric Hospitals in Eastern Taiwan: Does the Leisure Destination Location Help Nurses Cope with Stress?

Exploring the Stresses and Health of the Nurses in the Psychiatric Hospitals in Eastern Taiwan: Does the Leisure Destination Location Help Nurses Cope with Stress?

Environmental Protection and Corporate Responsibility: The Perspectives of Senior Managers and CxOs in China

The Importance of Cross-Cultural Capabilities for Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Australia

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