An investigation of leadership styles and relationship cultures of Chinese and expatriate managers in multinational construction companies in Hong Kong

摘要: Cross‐cultural leadership research has predicted that the Chinese are perceived as people‐oriented and prefer a high‐context power relationship, whereas Westerners task‐oriented low‐context relationship. However, such general predictions less accurate when intercultural interactions exist in multicultural workplaces. For this reason perceptions relationships of both Western expatriate project managers explored multinational construction firms Hong Kong. Questionnaire data from 45 61 subordinates suggested local (Hong Kong) do not differ significantly terms relationships. Both manager groups equally considered importance task performance interpersonal Two possibilities proposed which lead to similar relationship styles different cultural orientations:...