Graduation Semester and Year
2020
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Human Resource Management
Department
Management
First Advisor
George S. Benson
Second Advisor
Wayne S. Crawford
Abstract
In my thesis, I review the research literature on the influence of national culture on reward preferences and compensation practices. I first review the major models of culture used to examine reward practices and then detail the convergence and divergence debate in international management by highlighting constraining forces in the host and home business environment that lead to standardization or localization. Finally, I review the research on cultural dimensions and preferred compensation practices and propose an integrative model.I conclude that culture is one of the many macro-variables that influence international compensation decisions and argue that the adaption of compensation practices can be viewed as pragmatic experimentation and adaptive space can be used to make a decision on standardization and localization in international reward management. I classify standardization as an “ordered response” and localization as an “entrepreneurial response”.
Keywords
convergence vs divergence, international compensation management, culture and compensation
Disciplines
Business | Business Administration, Management, and Operations
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Sharma, Divyanshu Vardhan V., "International Compensation: An Examination of the Relationship Between Societal Culture and Preferred Compensation Policies" (2020). Management Theses. 5.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/management_theses/5
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington