Responding to Moral Dilemmas: The Roles of Empathy and Collectivist Values among the Chinese

Mann, Stephen K. F.; Cheng, Viviana

doi:10.2466/17.21.pr0.113x14z6

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“…For example, Stipek () found that people in individualist cultures are more likely to experience pride in response to personal accomplishments, while people in collectivist cultures are more likely to experience pride in response to successes that benefit others. In contrast, Mann and Cheng () argue that unlike those in individualist cultures, people in collectivist cultures tend to display an inclination to place the interests of the collective above their own when they experience empathy.…”

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Emotional appeal in recruitment advertising and applicant attraction: Unpacking national cultural differences

Han

Ling

2016

J Organ Behavior

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Summary We investigated the impact of the type of emotional appeal (ego‐focused vs. other‐focused) used in recruiting advertisements on applicant attraction to firms through two experimental studies across three countries (the United States, China, and Singapore). In Study 1, we made a traditional cultural comparison between the United States and China, whose dominant cultural values are characterized by individualism and collectivism, respectively. We found applicants in the United States were more strongly attracted to firms whose recruiting advertisements were based on an ego‐focused emotional appeal, while applicants in China were more attracted to firms that used ads with an other‐focused emotional appeal. Study 2 was conducted in bicultural Singapore. We primed bicultural applicants to be either the individualistic or collectivistic aspect of their cultural heritage. Applicants with individualist priming were attracted to recruiting advertisements with an ego‐focused emotional appeal, whereas applicants with collectivist priming were attracted to advertisements with an other‐focused emotional appeal. In addition, both studies revealed that a job applicant's regulatory focus (promotion vs. prevention) mediated the influence of national culture on the relationship between type of emotional appeal and applicant attraction to firms. Practical implications and suggestions for future research also are discussed. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 97%

Emotional appeal in recruitment advertising and applicant attraction: Unpacking national cultural differences

Han

Ling

2016

J Organ Behavior

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“…With public officials in Korean public sectors as the object of investigation, a positive correlation exists between social capital and knowledge sharing (Kim, 2018). The higher the tacit knowledge, the stronger the knowledge sharing of the collectivist-oriented people (Yu, 2014), Zhong-yong is the representative of Confucian culture and reflects the value of Chinese collectivism (Mann and Cheng, 2013). Knowledge sharing positively moderates the relationship between core self-evaluation and creativity (Mittal, 2015).…”

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The effect of Zhong-yong thinking to employee survival ability: taking Chinese employees as an example

Zhang

Chen

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeZhong-yong thinking is a code of conduct of the Chinese people. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among Zhong-yong thinking, social capital, knowledge sharing behavior, and employee survival ability.Design/methodology/approachZhong-yong thinking including multi-thinking, integration and harmony, taking a case study of private enterprise in Guangxi of China. Based on the literature, the establishment of the theoretical model and hierarchical regression analysis are explored.FindingsThe multi-thinking, integration and harmony of Zhong-yong thinking have a significant positive effect on social capital and employee survival ability. In addition, employee survival ability is positively affected by social capital. Moreover, knowledge sharing behavior has a positive moderating between the multi-thinking dimension of Zhong-yong thinking and social capital, and the remaining dimensions have no moderating effect. Knowledge sharing behavior has no moderating effect on the relationship between social capital and employee survival ability.Practical implicationsZhong-yong thinking and social capital are actively affecting employee survival ability. Therefore, companies need to work harder to improve their employees' Zhong-yong thinking and social capital.Originality/valueThe paper extends Zhong-yong thinking, social capital and employee survival ability literature to fill gaps in how China people require to both access employee survival ability. The policy value of the work is in suggesting ways to facilitate employee survival ability of China.

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“…For decision making, Briley, Morris and Simonson () found that Hong Kong students tended to avoid losses when the decision task was presented in Chinese ( vs English), complying with the prevention focus strategy of the motivational approach in Chinese culture. For decision making in the realm of morality, Mann and Cheng () examined the inter‐relationship among cultural values, empathy and moral competence in Hong Kong bilingual students. They focused on participants' moral competence instead of their judgements of moral dilemmas and found that empathy interacted with the degree of collectivism in predicting moral competence.…”

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Effects of dilemma type, language, and emotion arousal on utilitarianvsdeontological choice to moral dilemmas in Chinese-English bilinguals

Chan

et al. 2016

Asian J Soc Psychol

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The present study examines how dilemma type (personal or impersonal moral dilemma), language (native or foreign) and emotion arousal to a dilemma could affect Chinese-English bilinguals' deontological vs utilitarian moral choices regarding 39 moral dilemmas. How emotion arousal plays a mediating role in the effects of dilemma type and language on moral choices is also investigated. As shown in multilevel analyses, participants made fewer utilitarian choices for personal dilemmas than impersonal dilemmas. Although emotion arousal of dilemmas significantly mediated this effect of dilemma type, the indirect effect of dilemma type through arousal on moral choices was inconsistent with the direct effect of dilemma type on moral choices. For the effect of language, participants made more utilitarian choices in the Footbridge (personal) dilemma that was presented in foreign language than in native language. However, this effect was not mediated by arousal, suggesting that it could not be attributed to the emotion-reducing effect of foreign language. Moreover, there was no language effect on moral choices in analyses that included all 39 dilemmas or only 22 personal dilemmas, indicating the need in future research for further identifying the potential mediators that trigger the foreign language effect on moral choices.

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Responding to Moral Dilemmas: The Roles of Empathy and Collectivist Values among the Chinese

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Emotional appeal in recruitment advertising and applicant attraction: Unpacking national cultural differences

Emotional appeal in recruitment advertising and applicant attraction: Unpacking national cultural differences

The effect of Zhong-yong thinking to employee survival ability: taking Chinese employees as an example

Effects of dilemma type, language, and emotion arousal on utilitarianvsdeontological choice to moral dilemmas in Chinese-English bilinguals

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