Summary: Comparing Taiwan and U.S. Employee Attitudes on Ethics

This summary writing assignment evaluates findings from four documents, focusing on business organization practices and their impact on employee behavior. It analyzes an article comparing employee attitudes in the U.S. and Taiwan towards unethical practices, based on a primary research study with 95 Taiwanese and 157 U.S. candidates. Hypotheses address how collective vs. individualist cultures influence unethical decision-making. The analysis also considers culture-specific arguments in quality management, incorporating the four-player model and group thinking frameworks. The common thread emphasizes working conditions and ethical decision-making within different cultural contexts, quality management, and the simplification of complex business activities to maintain workplace productivity. It also explores creative group thinking techniques and communication theories.

Summary Writing

Title: Collective Versus Individualist National Cultures Comparing Taiwan
and U.S. Employee Attitudes Toward Unethical Business Practices, 2007
Summary writing
The purpose of this summary writing is to evaluate findings being obtained from 4
different pieces of documents. Under this standard of output will be delivered that will focus on
identifying key practices of business organisation and relative impact on behaviour of employees
working at the workforce. Through the analysis of article 1 for which employees working in the
U.S. and Taiwan was being analysed towards unethical practices performed in business firms.
For the given article primary research was being performed for which a total of 95 candidates
were being selected from Taiwan and 157 from the United States. Basis were set reflecting to
employees within a collective culture would be more likely to indicate they would make an
unethical decision that benefits the organization (H1), employees from individualist cultures
would be more likely to indicate they would make an unethical decision for personal benefit
(H2), employees from individualist cultures would be more likely to speak their minds openly
about their organization’s unethical practices without regard to the conflict it may cause (H3),
employees from collective cultures would be no more or less likely to report that they would
make an unethical decision when no apparent personal or organizational benefit is perceived
(H4). For the second article analysis with respect to testing validity of culture-specific
argument as an explanation to quality management techniques were being taken into
consideration. Following with articles the framework of 4 player model and group thinking
respectively was being included.
From the evaluation of presented article common thread that can be pointed from all
reflects towards working conditions within the business firm. This highlights better terms under
which coordinative tasks could be performed with respect to effective workings. Under the term,
several discussions were being made with respect to ethical decision-making by culture being
followed in the operational firm. In addition to this, several aspects of the operational firm in
terms of quality management were also being taken into consideration (Chew and et. al., 2019).
Furthermore, critical discussions were being made with respect to using Kantor’s Four-player
model. For the stated framework positive working environment in the operational firm was being
taken into consideration. In the process of being complex business activities and operations were

being simplified with respect to maintaining productivity at the workplace. Finally, creative
techniques of group thinking, as well as an associated decision-making process in the workforce
was being ensured. For the process is the key observation was being made for which group of
individuals were being observed and appropriate communication theories were being established
at the workplace (Kim and McCarthy, 2021).

References
Books and Journals
Chew, C.S., Idris, N., Loh, E.F., Wu, W.C.V., Chua, Y.P. and Bimba, A.T., 2019. The effects of
a theory‐based summary writing tool on students' summary writing. Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning, 35(3), pp.435-449.
Kim, M.K. and McCarthy, K.S., 2021. Improving summary writing through formative feedback
in a technology‐enhanced learning environment. Journal of Computer Assisted
Learning, 37(3), pp.684-704.
Online
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