HCBE Faculty Articles
Title
The Japanese Value System: An Application of Maccoby’s Head and Heart Traits
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1993
Publication Title
Management Decision
ISSN or ISBN
0025-1747
Volume
31
Issue/Number
4
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
10.1108/00251749310037503
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
