Title: Involving employees in the management of organisations: preferences from the USA and India

Authors: Jai Ghorpade, Jim Lackritz, Gangaram Singh

Addresses: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA

Abstract: As the USA develops its trade interaction with India, issues of management between the two countries are likely to surface. In this article, we examine one such issue - preferences for the involvement of employees in the management of organisations using a new scale we called Preferences for Involvement in Management (PIM). Our data show that PIM is equivalent across the USA and India. A comparison of the mean levels of PIM shows that it is higher in the USA than India. Implications of the results are discussed.

Keywords: international management; international human resource management; cross-cultural research; employee involvement; structural equations model.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2003.003666

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2003 Vol.3 No.3, pp.275 - 284

Published online: 02 Oct 2003 *

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