HCBE Faculty Articles
The Japanese Value System: An Application of Maccoby’s Head and Heart Traits
ORCID
Rebecca Abraham 0000-0002-3144-7759
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Management Decision
ISSN
0025-1747
Publication Date
1993
Abstract/Excerpt
Builds a profile of values for a sample of Japanese managers and their immediate supervisors, to be used by Western managers engaged in business ventures with Japanese counterparts. An exploratory factor analysis utilizes Maccoby’s head and heart traits to reveal the powerful influence of tradition in the form of Confucianism, Amayakasu, Chun‐Tzu, honesty and mental autarky, with secondary factors of professionalism and inflexibility suggesting convergence with Western beliefs. Although supervisory perceptions conformed closely with those of respondents, cross‐cultural comparisons demonstrated that US and Japanese managers espouse diametrically opposing values.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749310037503
Volume
31
Issue
4
NSUWorks Citation
Abraham, Rebecca and Zikiye, Anthony, "The Japanese Value System: An Application of Maccoby’s Head and Heart Traits" (1993). HCBE Faculty Articles. 877.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/877
