Matching Versus Mismatching Cultural Norms in Performance Appraisal: Effects of the Cultural Setting and Bicultural Identity Integration

• Main Authors: MOK, Aurelia, CHENG, Chi-Ying, MORRIS, Michael W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: bicultural identity integration; causal attribution; cultural frame switching; performance appraisal; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1042; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2298/viewcontent/MatchingvMismatching_2010_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The present study examined how biculturals (Asian-Americans) adjust to differing cultural settings in performance appraisal. Biculturals vary in the degree to which their two cultural identities are compatible or oppositional — Bicultural Identity Integration (BII). The authors found that individual...