Ebook: Desirable Leadership Behaviours Of Multi-cultural Managers In China

This monograph reports and compares‘‘desirable’’ leadership traits, and leadershiptraits actual exhibited by managers andsupervisors as defined by responses on theoriginal English and a Chinese languagetranslation of the Ohio State Universityl e a d e r s h i p behaviour de s c r ipt ionquestionnaire XII (LBDQ XII). Fromanecdotal evidence and personal experience,the researcher found considerable difficultyin transferring research results from HongKong, Taiwan, and Singapore to usefulpractice in the interior of China andperformed this study in an attempt to gainunderstanding for management trainingcourses. Data was collected for 220managers and supervisors in two hotels inthe interior of China. Both expatriate andindigenous Chinese managers were included.All supervisors were Chinese. A significant(p < 0.05) difference between Chinese andnon-Chinese expatriates was observed forfactor: Tolerance of Freedom, interestingly,with the Chinese managers indicating moretolerance of freedom than the expatriatemanagers. Nonetheless, Chinese supervisorsbelieved the ideal manager should be evenmore tolerant of freedom than theirmanagers. Previously published in: The Journal of Management Development, Volume 21, Number 1, 2002