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  • Managerial practices and styles in developing countries: the influence of cultural values - a case study on the Sultanate of Oman

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    Alkindi, Ibrahim Ahmed Said
    Primary Supervisor
    carter, Geoff
    Year published
    2009
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    Managerial Practices and styles in Developing Countries'– The Influence of Cultural values: A Case Study on the Sultanate of Oman' is a thesis that is built on three pieces of independent research, which employed four different questionnaires. Study One in which 511 Omanis participated focused on defining cultural values: determine, describe, and analyse. Employing Schwartz values theory (1992, 1994); the results indicated that Omanis were concerned about peace, freedom from war and conflict, social justice, caring for the weak, equality, honouring parents, self restraint, discipline, and resistance to temptation. Study Two: ...
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    Managerial Practices and styles in Developing Countries'– The Influence of Cultural values: A Case Study on the Sultanate of Oman' is a thesis that is built on three pieces of independent research, which employed four different questionnaires. Study One in which 511 Omanis participated focused on defining cultural values: determine, describe, and analyse. Employing Schwartz values theory (1992, 1994); the results indicated that Omanis were concerned about peace, freedom from war and conflict, social justice, caring for the weak, equality, honouring parents, self restraint, discipline, and resistance to temptation. Study Two: managerial practices and styles employed the Culpan and Kucukemiroglu's Scale (1993) and Khandwalla (1995b) to collect data from 287 managers. The results obtained show managers practiced supervisory style, decision making, communication pattern, control mechanism, interdepartmental relations, and paternalistic orientation while their style was bureaucratic, authoritarian, entrepreneurial, organic, professional, and conservative. Examining the relationship between cultural values and managerial practices and styles '– based on the findings of Study One and Study Two '– Study Three concluded that cultural values had a significant and crucial impact on the performance and actions of the managers within the public and private sectors. Furthermore, the study found out that specific values, practices, and styles, work situation, and sector type were the result of the strong influence of each of the seventeen variables employed in the thesis.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    Griffith Business School
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/146
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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    Public
    Subject
    Sultanate of Oman
    defining cultural values
    cultural values
    Schwartz values theory
    managerial practices in developing countries
    managerial practices and styles
    Oman
    public sector managment
    private sector management
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365274
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    • Theses - Higher Degree by Research

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