Purpose – Hofstede's theory may be problematic from both a methodological/theoretical and practical view when applied to the 80 per cent of the globe we term developing. It is necessary to break out of an epistemic paradigm and a “view from nowhere” in order to focus on multiple layers of...

With an increasing number of foreign enterprises operating in China, there is a need to focus on the motivation of Chinese workers in such enterprises, and the way that human resource management practices address Chinese work values and motivational factors. Problems of productivity and...