Cross Cultural Variables: Evaluating Emplyess Attitudes Across Four Regions of Asia, Europe, North and Latin America

This poster reports the findings from two exploratory analyses on the relationship between job attitudes and the geographic/cultural setting of business organizations. The first analysis is an overview of the levels and correlates of job satisfaction in four regions, North America, East Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and in nine countries of East Asia – China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Thailand – where differences in employee attitudes between the many countries have received scant attention. This analysis uses normative data for 1990-2003 collected from 255 companies representing about 2.6 million employees. The second analysis uses 2002 survey data from three large multinational companies, in financial services, manufacturing, and oil & gas production, to examine the relative importance of top and immediate management, recognition, teamwork, salary and pay, and other employee attitudes for overall job satisfaction across these four regions. The analysis is intended to indicate those areas of employment.