Cultural influences in acquiescent response: A study of trainer evaluation biases |
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| Authors: | Hsien‐Chun Chen I‐Heng Chen Szu‐Yin Lin Yichieh Chen |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Human Resource Management, National Sun Yat‐sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | The current study is developed to identify factors that affect trainees’ acquiescent tendency in organizational trainer evaluations. We posit that conflict‐handling style affects ones tendency to acquiesce in trainer evaluations, and this relationship is regulated by cultural influence. Surveys were sent to employees with training experience in Taiwan and North America, 395 valid responses were collected. Results showed that the two individual conflict‐handling styles: non‐confrontation style and dominating style, are positively related to acquiescent tendency; and their relationship is found moderated by the influence of Confucian work dynamism, thus confirming the influence of cultural norms. Our findings contribute to HRD practitioners by highlighting the different conflict‐handling style and culture influence will result in different level of acquiescent propensity, trainer evaluations results should be interpreted more carefully and cautiously. |
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