strategies.
Lenovo was selected not only due to the vast national culture difference, but also because it is running in an emerging economy. This study sought to understand the role of China’s economic development and the impact it has on preferred management behavior. The country has been undergoing a process of rapid economic growth and as a result, exposes China to the effects of rapid industrialization and international dynamics. Furthermore, China has vast natural resources. The government, in its parental role, has created tremendous drive and support to train and educate the people to be productive. The government looks at human resources as their resource in the new era. The government also actively courts MNC to locate and expand their business in China.
This study sought to understand the role of China’s economic development and the impact it has on preferred management behavior. The theories of divergence vs. convergence were analyzed as the study attempted to identify cultural values that Chinese and the Chinese workforce in particular were changing or giving up and in exchange embracing Western values.
3.3 Research Approaches
Quantitative research uses mathematical analysis that can reveal statistically significant differences (Gate& McDaniel, 1998). Qualitative research is the study of using descriptive analysis to reveal significant differences. The types of research could be descriptive or causal. It has a large sample size and varied informa英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】tion per respondent. It only requires fewer special skills but limited probing for questions. In the research statistical and summarization are the main types for analysis for the quantitative data, and for qualitative analysis, summarization is the main type.
3.3.1 Qualitative Research
Qualitative research emerged from cultural anthropology and American sociology (Kirk & Miller, 1986) and has only recently been adopted by the other social sciences. This paradigm is a constructivist approach (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) in that it allows the researcher the opportunity to listen to informants in their natural setting and then construct a picture based on their perceptions and experiences. Researchers utilize qualitative methodologies to discover, understand, and give meaning to a specific social situation, event, role, group, or interaction (Locke, Spirduso, & Silverman, 1987).
Various researchers have developed key assumptions and characteristics that are unique to qualitative research and that distinguish it from quantitative research methods.
Marshall and Rossman (1989) suggest that the researcher enter the informant’s world in order to be immersed in the everyday setting chosen for the study. In so doing, the researcher does not experience the situation under question in isolation. Rather, since the focus of qualitative research is on the process that is occurring, the researcher observes the interaction and impact of other forces and gains insight and an
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