TITLE:
Exploring Self-Leadership across Eastern and Western Cultures
AUTHORS:
Jessie Ho, Paul L. Nesbit
KEYWORDS:
Self-Leadership; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Independent-Interdependent Self-Construals; Individualistic/Collectivistic Cultures; Promotion and Prevention Regulatory Focus
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Service Science and Management,
Vol.6 No.4,
October
29,
2013
ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this study was to examine how culture influences the use of self-leadership strategies among Hong Kong and Australian students. Results revealed that significant cultural differences were found for some dimensions of self-leadership strategies. Chinese students reported greater use of self-reward, relation-based natural reward, individual-oriented and social-oriented evaluation of beliefs and assumption, whereas Australian students reported greater use of self-goal setting, and self-cueing. However, no cultural differences were found for the use of self-punishment, positive self-talk, visualizing successful performance as well as task-based natural rewards. Implications and future research are also discussed.