ABSTRACT
Within cross-cultural psychology there is a welcome growth in research on international differences in personality found in business or organizational settings. It is particularly noteworthy that so much of this work relates to Japanese business, including leadership (Misumi, 1985; Schmidt & Yeh, 1992; Smith, Misumi, Tayeb, Peterson, & Bond, 1989), worker motivation (Schwalb, Schwalb, Harnisch, Maehr, & Akabane, 1992), conflict (Sethi, 1975), salespeople (Dubinsky, Michaels, Kotabe, Lim, & Moon, 1992), and negotiation (Adler & Graham, 1989; Goldman, 1994). In addition to these general topics, we find specialized studies of preferred managerial types using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Reynierse, 1995), gender-role and managerial stereotypes (Powell & Kido, 1994; Schein, Mueller, Lituchy, & Liu, 1996), and women's personality traits and career attitudes (Matsui, Ohsawa, & Onglatco, 1991).
