Two studies of different methodologies investigated ethnic and gender similarity's effect on responses to offense episodes. Despite the different methodologies, common findings were obtained. Cumulatively, our findings show that: (1) victims of offensive workplace interactions do not always...

This study examined the effects of workplace offenders' characteristics and offense-type on victims' reactions. Responses from 352 employed graduate students in the U.S. and South Korea to a hypothetical offense incident revealed that employees from the U.S. and Korea differ in their expressed...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether negative emotions mediate the relationship between supervisor rudeness and subordinates' retaliatory reactions and how the reactions to supervisor rudeness differ between US Americans and Koreans and between in-group and out-group...

Using a survey of 393 employees who were natives and residents of China, Japan, and South Korea, we examined the extent to which employees from different countries within East Asia experience distributive justice when they perceived that their work outcomes relative to a referent other (i.e.,...

While extant research has shown entrepreneurial activities and their returns are unequally distributed among majority and minority groups, little is known about career trajectories after the entrepreneurial event and whether the bias against minority groups continues. For example, in...

This dissertation investigates whether cultural competence, defined as a person’s ability to interact effectively with others from a different cultural background or in a cross-cultural setting, predicts expatriate adjustment and job performance more effectively than other individual-level...