Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States

Numerous studies have shown that culture is a critical factor affecting leadership perceptions. Although these studies provide useful information about cultural differences, they overlook the fundamental difference between East Asians and Westerners, a holistic view versus an analytic view. In add...

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Main Author: Yoon, Jeeyun
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/42690
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spelling ndltd-GATECH-oai-smartech.gatech.edu-1853-426902013-01-07T20:38:07ZLeadership representations in South Korea and the United StatesYoon, JeeyunCultureFocal figureContextual factorsLeadershipLeadership United StatesLeadership South KoreaSocial cognitive theoryNumerous studies have shown that culture is a critical factor affecting leadership perceptions. Although these studies provide useful information about cultural differences, they overlook the fundamental difference between East Asians and Westerners, a holistic view versus an analytic view. In addition, these studies are based on methodologies in which verbal or pictorial stimuli are presented by researchers under conditions of high capacity, which does not allow other representational differences to be observed. This study investigates leadership representations in South Korea and the United States based on hypotheses about fundamental differences in social cognitive processing among South Koreans and Americans, as revealed in spontaneously generated visual productions. The results suggest that South Koreans have a holistic view, whereas Americans have an analytic view of leadership representations. Implications and future directions for research on cultural differences in leadership representations are discussed.Georgia Institute of Technology2012-02-17T19:12:12Z2012-02-17T19:12:12Z2010-11-08Thesishttp://hdl.handle.net/1853/42690
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topic Culture
Focal figure
Contextual factors
Leadership
Leadership United States
Leadership South Korea
Social cognitive theory
spellingShingle Culture
Focal figure
Contextual factors
Leadership
Leadership United States
Leadership South Korea
Social cognitive theory
Yoon, Jeeyun
Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
description Numerous studies have shown that culture is a critical factor affecting leadership perceptions. Although these studies provide useful information about cultural differences, they overlook the fundamental difference between East Asians and Westerners, a holistic view versus an analytic view. In addition, these studies are based on methodologies in which verbal or pictorial stimuli are presented by researchers under conditions of high capacity, which does not allow other representational differences to be observed. This study investigates leadership representations in South Korea and the United States based on hypotheses about fundamental differences in social cognitive processing among South Koreans and Americans, as revealed in spontaneously generated visual productions. The results suggest that South Koreans have a holistic view, whereas Americans have an analytic view of leadership representations. Implications and future directions for research on cultural differences in leadership representations are discussed.
author Yoon, Jeeyun
author_facet Yoon, Jeeyun
author_sort Yoon, Jeeyun
title Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
title_short Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
title_full Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
title_fullStr Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
title_full_unstemmed Leadership representations in South Korea and the United States
title_sort leadership representations in south korea and the united states
publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/1853/42690
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