David C Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 135295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2551-6359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unlocking the Potential of Multicultural Migrants: Cultural Brokering Scale Development and Validation
Migrant employees have knowledge, skills, and abilities that may not be recognized by organizations or countries. Typically, they have knowledge of, identification with, and internalization of more than one culture. This allows them to support international knowledge flows and facilitate intercultural social networks by engaging in cultural brokering — the act of facilitating interactions across cultures. In a series of four studies employing qua…
Cultural variation in hiring people with disabilities: A Theory and Preliminary Test
Purpose The goal of this study is to propose and test a model of the effect of the socio-cultural context on the disability inclusion climate of organizations. The model has implications of hiring people with disabilities. Design/methodology/approach To test the model, we conducted a cross-sectional study across four countries with very different socio-cultural contexts. Data were gathered from 266 managers with hiring responsibilities in Canada,…
Google Earth Afghan Surveys
The Role of Early Immersive Culture Mixing in Cultural Identifications of Multiculturals
Becoming multicultural through early immersive culture mixing (EICM)-i.e., growing up with a mix of cultures that coexist and interact to form an emergent hybrid culture within one's home-is a rapidly rising phenomenon in many parts of the world. This phenomenon calls for new research that recognizes the possibility of identification with a hybrid culture as well as the distinct cultures from which the hybrid culture derives. This article extends…
The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire
Exploring Antidepressant Adherence at a Student-Run Free Mental Health Clinic
On the Margins: Enduring Pre-Modern Water Management Strategies In and Around the Registan Desert, Afghanistan
The Registan Desert in southern Afghanistan has, like most deserts, traditionally been regarded as a barren, hostile space, devoid of human occupation other than occasional nomad campsites and an isolated 11th-century a.d. fortress. Detailed analysis of a strip of high resolution satellite imagery available through Google Earth and stretching into the Registan has revealed the presence of over 800 hitherto unrecorded archaeological sites. Many of…
N-Culturals: Modeling the multicultural identity
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend current conceptualizations of multicultural individuals by mapping the underlying elements of knowledge, identification, commitment and internalization as components of multicultural identity. It aims to extend discussions of how multicultural individuals manage their multiculturality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws primarily on extant works on multicultural individuals and identity.…
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural intelligence is the capability that individuals have to be effective in intercultural interactions. While the term has been used as an umbrella concept to include a wide variety of intercultural effectiveness ideas, it has its origins as an individual difference in a multifaceted type of intelligence. While different conceptualizations exist they share a focus on the higher order cognitive development of individuals in a cross‐cultural c…
The role of self-concept in cross-cultural communication
Empirical evidence supports the notion that communication behaviors in intercultural encounters are effectively extensions of cultural values as well as epistemologies. Study 1 established communication behaviors of Asians and New Zealanders (NZs) as consistent with vertical collectivism and horizontal individualism, respectively. In particular, argumentativeness is positively related to independent self-construal (SC) and negatively related to i…
N -Culturals, the next cross-cultural challenge: Introducing a multicultural mentoring model program
This article advances current conceptualizations of multicultural identities by identifying constituent elements of multicultural identity as knowledge, identification, internalization, and commitment. This new conceptualization is labeled n- Culturalism and posits that there are individuals who operate at the intersection of multiple cultures by maintaining salience of their multiple cultural identities. We illustrate that n-Culturals are assets…
The Rediscovery of the “Lost” Minaret of Qal'A-I Zārmurgh, Sāghar, Afghanistan
Given the difficulties of conducting fieldwork in Afghanistan, it is unsurprising that numerous archaeological “mysteries” remain unsolved. Many sites and monuments were originally documented by the Afghan Boundary Commission in the late nineteenth century and have not been sighted by Western scholars since. Hopes of reaching one of these “lost” structures, the minaret of Qal'a-i Zārmurgh, were thwarted in 2006–07. A process of “community engagem…
Cross-Cultural Management
Cross-cultural management is the study of management in a cross-cultural context. It includes the study of the influence of societal culture on managers and management practice as well as the study of the cultural orientations of individual managers and organization members. At the individual level, individuals' values as well as their understanding of and reactions to their cultural context and experience figure prominently. Contributing discipl…
Thesis Abstracts
Bicultural Individuals in Organizations: Implications and Opportunity
Cross-cultural management research typically assumes that individuals have only one cultural profile. However, given the changing patterns in the world’s workforce it is increasingly possible that more employees and managers will be bicultural. This special issue responds to the need to further our understanding of this emerging demographic in organizations. In this introductory article, we provide a brief review of what we know about bicultural …
Cultural Intelligence: Domain and Assessment
The construct of cultural intelligence, recently introduced to the management literature, has enormous potential in helping to explain effectiveness in cross cultural interactions. However, at present, no generally accepted definition or operationalization of this nascent construct exists. In this article, we develop a conceptualization of cultural intelligence that addresses a number of important limitations of previous definitions. We present a…
The Handbook of Cross-Cultural ManagementResearch
Chapter 1: Introduction - Mark F. Peterson, Peter B. Smith, and David C. Thomas The Essence of Culture: Systems of Values, Beliefs and Meanings Links between People and Organizations Organizational Structures and Processes Managing a Multiple Nation Workforce Chapter 2: Cognitive Structures and Processes in Cross-Cultural Management - Mark F. Peterson and Robert E. Wood Motives and Motivation Processes Personality Constructs Cognitive Perspective…
Organizational behavior in multinational organizations
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on organizational behavior in the context of multinational organizations (MNOs). MNOs have distinctive organizational characteristics and operate in national settings that have distinctive institutional and cultural characteristics that together provide a unique context for organizational behavior. We present a taxonomy, which suggests that OB scholars who have done…
Domain and Development of Cultural Intelligence: The Importance of Mindfulness
The potential for defining a reliable measure of a cross-cultural facet of intelligence has enormous implications for explaining and predicting the increasingly prevalent cross-cultural interactions that occur in business settings. In this article, the author presents a definition of cultural intelligence (CQ) that explicitly introduces the concept of mindfulness as a key component that links knowledge with behavioral capability. It builds on pre…
Communication In Intercultural Interaction: An Empirical Investigation of Idiocentric and Sociocentric Communication Styles
This study examined the communication styles of East Asians and Anglo-European New Zealanders (Pakeha). Results indicated that in general, Asians exhibited more sociocentric communication behavior whereas Pakeha exhibited more idiocentric behavior. In intercultural interactions, both the frequency and intensity of these behavior styles were exacerbated. Results further indicated that task accomplishment required more time in the intercultural con…
Cultural variation and the psychological contract
Literature on the psychological contract has made significant contributions to our understanding of the exchange relationship between employees and their employer. However, the influence of cultural differences on perceptions of the employment relationship has largely been neglected. We propose both cognitive and motivational mechanisms through which the cultural profiles of individuals influence (a) formation of the psychological contract, (b) p…
Effect of Culture on Situational Determinants of Exchange Behavior in Organizations: A Comparison of New Zealand and Indonesia
This study examined the moderating effect of national culture on the relationship between a key situational indicator (job satisfaction) and the exchange behaviors of employees. The main effect of job satisfaction on the outcome behaviors of exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect was consistent in Indonesia and New Zealand suggesting a possible universal relationship. However, the cultural group of participants (Indonesia or New Zealand) moderated the…
Cultural Diversity and Work Group Effectiveness: An Experimental Study
Changes in workforce demographics resulting from globalization, combined with the rising popularity of team-based management techniques, has resulted in a practical concern with the management of multicultural groups. In this experimental study, three mechanisms that are proposed to influence group effectiveness are examined. Results supported the notion that the cultural diversity of the group, the sociocultural norms of group members, and their…
Causal Attribution in an Intercultural Interaction: The Effect of Stimulus Presentation Mode
Causal attribution for three different levels of adaptive behaviour by a foreign (Japanese) manager to the cultural expectations of host country (United States) subordinates was examined in an experimental setting. Two methods, written descriptions of the intercultural interaction (scripts) and direct observation (videotapes produced from the scripts), were used to present the behaviour. A main effect was found for the level of adaptive behaviour…
The Falkland Islands as an International Problem
Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war, that is, the Anglo-Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Anglo-Argentine relations remain unstable, while a series of events (eg. over fishing) have emphasised the sensitive and important nature of the international problem. The dispute is of key significance to Argentina and Britain, but affec…
Bicultural Individuals in Organizations: Implications and Opportunity
Cross-cultural management research typically assumes that individuals have only one cultural profile. However, given the changing patterns in the world’s workforce it is increasingly possible that more employees and managers will be bicultural. This special issue responds to the need to further our understanding of this emerging demographic in organizations. In this introductory article, we provide a brief review of what we know about bicultural …
Cultural Intelligence: Domain and Assessment
The construct of cultural intelligence, recently introduced to the management literature, has enormous potential in helping to explain effectiveness in cross cultural interactions. However, at present, no generally accepted definition or operationalization of this nascent construct exists. In this article, we develop a conceptualization of cultural intelligence that addresses a number of important limitations of previous definitions. We present a…
Cultural variation and the psychological contract
Literature on the psychological contract has made significant contributions to our understanding of the exchange relationship between employees and their employer. However, the influence of cultural differences on perceptions of the employment relationship has largely been neglected. We propose both cognitive and motivational mechanisms through which the cultural profiles of individuals influence (a) formation of the psychological contract, (b) p…
Cultural Diversity and Work Group Effectiveness: An Experimental Study
Changes in workforce demographics resulting from globalization, combined with the rising popularity of team-based management techniques, has resulted in a practical concern with the management of multicultural groups. In this experimental study, three mechanisms that are proposed to influence group effectiveness are examined. Results supported the notion that the cultural diversity of the group, the sociocultural norms of group members, and their…
The Handbook of Cross-Cultural ManagementResearch
Chapter 1: Introduction - Mark F. Peterson, Peter B. Smith, and David C. Thomas The Essence of Culture: Systems of Values, Beliefs and Meanings Links between People and Organizations Organizational Structures and Processes Managing a Multiple Nation Workforce Chapter 2: Cognitive Structures and Processes in Cross-Cultural Management - Mark F. Peterson and Robert E. Wood Motives and Motivation Processes Personality Constructs Cognitive Perspective…
London's Green Belt: The Evolution of an Idea
Green belts have a long, though intermittent, history. Towns and cities with inviola le rural hinterlands were d scr bed in the Old estame t and in the works of the classical writers. Later authors, such as Sir Thomas More, Robert Owen and Ebenezer Howard, contributed to the development of the idea that town and country should be functionally related but physically distinct (Osborn, 1946; but see also Sharpe, 1932). London's green belt is not of …
The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire
N-Culturals: Modeling the multicultural identity
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend current conceptualizations of multicultural individuals by mapping the underlying elements of knowledge, identification, commitment and internalization as components of multicultural identity. It aims to extend discussions of how multicultural individuals manage their multiculturality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws primarily on extant works on multicultural individuals and identity.…
Organizational behavior in multinational organizations
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on organizational behavior in the context of multinational organizations (MNOs). MNOs have distinctive organizational characteristics and operate in national settings that have distinctive institutional and cultural characteristics that together provide a unique context for organizational behavior. We present a taxonomy, which suggests that OB scholars who have done…
On the Margins: Enduring Pre-Modern Water Management Strategies In and Around the Registan Desert, Afghanistan
The Registan Desert in southern Afghanistan has, like most deserts, traditionally been regarded as a barren, hostile space, devoid of human occupation other than occasional nomad campsites and an isolated 11th-century a.d. fortress. Detailed analysis of a strip of high resolution satellite imagery available through Google Earth and stretching into the Registan has revealed the presence of over 800 hitherto unrecorded archaeological sites. Many of…
Effect of Culture on Situational Determinants of Exchange Behavior in Organizations: A Comparison of New Zealand and Indonesia
This study examined the moderating effect of national culture on the relationship between a key situational indicator (job satisfaction) and the exchange behaviors of employees. The main effect of job satisfaction on the outcome behaviors of exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect was consistent in Indonesia and New Zealand suggesting a possible universal relationship. However, the cultural group of participants (Indonesia or New Zealand) moderated the…
The Falkland Islands as an International Problem
Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war, that is, the Anglo-Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Anglo-Argentine relations remain unstable, while a series of events (eg. over fishing) have emphasised the sensitive and important nature of the international problem. The dispute is of key significance to Argentina and Britain, but affec…
The Role of Early Immersive Culture Mixing in Cultural Identifications of Multiculturals
Becoming multicultural through early immersive culture mixing (EICM)-i.e., growing up with a mix of cultures that coexist and interact to form an emergent hybrid culture within one's home-is a rapidly rising phenomenon in many parts of the world. This phenomenon calls for new research that recognizes the possibility of identification with a hybrid culture as well as the distinct cultures from which the hybrid culture derives. This article extends…
N -Culturals, the next cross-cultural challenge: Introducing a multicultural mentoring model program
This article advances current conceptualizations of multicultural identities by identifying constituent elements of multicultural identity as knowledge, identification, internalization, and commitment. This new conceptualization is labeled n- Culturalism and posits that there are individuals who operate at the intersection of multiple cultures by maintaining salience of their multiple cultural identities. We illustrate that n-Culturals are assets…
Exploring Antidepressant Adherence at a Student-Run Free Mental Health Clinic
The role of self-concept in cross-cultural communication
Empirical evidence supports the notion that communication behaviors in intercultural encounters are effectively extensions of cultural values as well as epistemologies. Study 1 established communication behaviors of Asians and New Zealanders (NZs) as consistent with vertical collectivism and horizontal individualism, respectively. In particular, argumentativeness is positively related to independent self-construal (SC) and negatively related to i…
Cross-Cultural Management
Cross-cultural management is the study of management in a cross-cultural context. It includes the study of the influence of societal culture on managers and management practice as well as the study of the cultural orientations of individual managers and organization members. At the individual level, individuals' values as well as their understanding of and reactions to their cultural context and experience figure prominently. Contributing discipl…
Causal Attribution in an Intercultural Interaction: The Effect of Stimulus Presentation Mode
Causal attribution for three different levels of adaptive behaviour by a foreign (Japanese) manager to the cultural expectations of host country (United States) subordinates was examined in an experimental setting. Two methods, written descriptions of the intercultural interaction (scripts) and direct observation (videotapes produced from the scripts), were used to present the behaviour. A main effect was found for the level of adaptive behaviour…
London's Green Belt: The Evolution of an Idea
Green belts have a long, though intermittent, history. Towns and cities with inviola le rural hinterlands were d scr bed in the Old estame t and in the works of the classical writers. Later authors, such as Sir Thomas More, Robert Owen and Ebenezer Howard, contributed to the development of the idea that town and country should be functionally related but physically distinct (Osborn, 1946; but see also Sharpe, 1932). London's green belt is not of …
Tomorrow's London: Review
Needs for Structure, Tolerance of Ambiguity and Dogmatism in Adolescents
Measures of structure needs, ambiguity tolerance, and dogmatism were given to a sample of urban adolescents in British Columbia. Structure need scores were significantly and negatively correlated with scores of ambiguity tolerance and significantly and positively correlated with scores of dogmatism ( rs from .32 to –.45). Dogmatism and ambiguity tolerance scores were negatively correlated, as anticipated from MacDonald's work (1970). The findings…
Item-Difficulty Sequence in Achievement Examinations: Examinees' Preferences and Test-Taking Strategies
Elementary, secondary school, and university students were asked for the test-taking strategy usually used in taking an achievement test and for the sequence of difficulty preferred for achievement test items. The majority preferred an easy-to-hard strategy with items in order-presented as second choice, and the hard-to-easy strategy chosen least often. No conclusions were drawn as to the effect of students' usual test-taking strategies on resear…
The Falkland Islands as an International Problem
Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war, that is, the Anglo-Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Anglo-Argentine relations remain unstable, while a series of events (eg. over fishing) have emphasised the sensitive and important nature of the international problem. The dispute is of key significance to Argentina and Britain, but affec…
Causal Attribution in an Intercultural Interaction: The Effect of Stimulus Presentation Mode
Causal attribution for three different levels of adaptive behaviour by a foreign (Japanese) manager to the cultural expectations of host country (United States) subordinates was examined in an experimental setting. Two methods, written descriptions of the intercultural interaction (scripts) and direct observation (videotapes produced from the scripts), were used to present the behaviour. A main effect was found for the level of adaptive behaviour…
Cultural Diversity and Work Group Effectiveness: An Experimental Study
Changes in workforce demographics resulting from globalization, combined with the rising popularity of team-based management techniques, has resulted in a practical concern with the management of multicultural groups. In this experimental study, three mechanisms that are proposed to influence group effectiveness are examined. Results supported the notion that the cultural diversity of the group, the sociocultural norms of group members, and their…
Communication In Intercultural Interaction: An Empirical Investigation of Idiocentric and Sociocentric Communication Styles
This study examined the communication styles of East Asians and Anglo-European New Zealanders (Pakeha). Results indicated that in general, Asians exhibited more sociocentric communication behavior whereas Pakeha exhibited more idiocentric behavior. In intercultural interactions, both the frequency and intensity of these behavior styles were exacerbated. Results further indicated that task accomplishment required more time in the intercultural con…
Cultural variation and the psychological contract
Literature on the psychological contract has made significant contributions to our understanding of the exchange relationship between employees and their employer. However, the influence of cultural differences on perceptions of the employment relationship has largely been neglected. We propose both cognitive and motivational mechanisms through which the cultural profiles of individuals influence (a) formation of the psychological contract, (b) p…
Effect of Culture on Situational Determinants of Exchange Behavior in Organizations: A Comparison of New Zealand and Indonesia
This study examined the moderating effect of national culture on the relationship between a key situational indicator (job satisfaction) and the exchange behaviors of employees. The main effect of job satisfaction on the outcome behaviors of exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect was consistent in Indonesia and New Zealand suggesting a possible universal relationship. However, the cultural group of participants (Indonesia or New Zealand) moderated the…
Domain and Development of Cultural Intelligence: The Importance of Mindfulness
The potential for defining a reliable measure of a cross-cultural facet of intelligence has enormous implications for explaining and predicting the increasingly prevalent cross-cultural interactions that occur in business settings. In this article, the author presents a definition of cultural intelligence (CQ) that explicitly introduces the concept of mindfulness as a key component that links knowledge with behavioral capability. It builds on pre…
Organizational behavior in multinational organizations
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on organizational behavior in the context of multinational organizations (MNOs). MNOs have distinctive organizational characteristics and operate in national settings that have distinctive institutional and cultural characteristics that together provide a unique context for organizational behavior. We present a taxonomy, which suggests that OB scholars who have done…
Cultural Intelligence: Domain and Assessment
The construct of cultural intelligence, recently introduced to the management literature, has enormous potential in helping to explain effectiveness in cross cultural interactions. However, at present, no generally accepted definition or operationalization of this nascent construct exists. In this article, we develop a conceptualization of cultural intelligence that addresses a number of important limitations of previous definitions. We present a…
The Handbook of Cross-Cultural ManagementResearch
Chapter 1: Introduction - Mark F. Peterson, Peter B. Smith, and David C. Thomas The Essence of Culture: Systems of Values, Beliefs and Meanings Links between People and Organizations Organizational Structures and Processes Managing a Multiple Nation Workforce Chapter 2: Cognitive Structures and Processes in Cross-Cultural Management - Mark F. Peterson and Robert E. Wood Motives and Motivation Processes Personality Constructs Cognitive Perspective…
Bicultural Individuals in Organizations: Implications and Opportunity
Cross-cultural management research typically assumes that individuals have only one cultural profile. However, given the changing patterns in the world’s workforce it is increasingly possible that more employees and managers will be bicultural. This special issue responds to the need to further our understanding of this emerging demographic in organizations. In this introductory article, we provide a brief review of what we know about bicultural …
Thesis Abstracts
N -Culturals, the next cross-cultural challenge: Introducing a multicultural mentoring model program
This article advances current conceptualizations of multicultural identities by identifying constituent elements of multicultural identity as knowledge, identification, internalization, and commitment. This new conceptualization is labeled n- Culturalism and posits that there are individuals who operate at the intersection of multiple cultures by maintaining salience of their multiple cultural identities. We illustrate that n-Culturals are assets…
The Rediscovery of the “Lost” Minaret of Qal'A-I Zārmurgh, Sāghar, Afghanistan
Given the difficulties of conducting fieldwork in Afghanistan, it is unsurprising that numerous archaeological “mysteries” remain unsolved. Many sites and monuments were originally documented by the Afghan Boundary Commission in the late nineteenth century and have not been sighted by Western scholars since. Hopes of reaching one of these “lost” structures, the minaret of Qal'a-i Zārmurgh, were thwarted in 2006–07. A process of “community engagem…
Cross-Cultural Management
Cross-cultural management is the study of management in a cross-cultural context. It includes the study of the influence of societal culture on managers and management practice as well as the study of the cultural orientations of individual managers and organization members. At the individual level, individuals' values as well as their understanding of and reactions to their cultural context and experience figure prominently. Contributing discipl…
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural intelligence is the capability that individuals have to be effective in intercultural interactions. While the term has been used as an umbrella concept to include a wide variety of intercultural effectiveness ideas, it has its origins as an individual difference in a multifaceted type of intelligence. While different conceptualizations exist they share a focus on the higher order cognitive development of individuals in a cross‐cultural c…
The role of self-concept in cross-cultural communication
Empirical evidence supports the notion that communication behaviors in intercultural encounters are effectively extensions of cultural values as well as epistemologies. Study 1 established communication behaviors of Asians and New Zealanders (NZs) as consistent with vertical collectivism and horizontal individualism, respectively. In particular, argumentativeness is positively related to independent self-construal (SC) and negatively related to i…
N-Culturals: Modeling the multicultural identity
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend current conceptualizations of multicultural individuals by mapping the underlying elements of knowledge, identification, commitment and internalization as components of multicultural identity. It aims to extend discussions of how multicultural individuals manage their multiculturality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws primarily on extant works on multicultural individuals and identity.…
On the Margins: Enduring Pre-Modern Water Management Strategies In and Around the Registan Desert, Afghanistan
The Registan Desert in southern Afghanistan has, like most deserts, traditionally been regarded as a barren, hostile space, devoid of human occupation other than occasional nomad campsites and an isolated 11th-century a.d. fortress. Detailed analysis of a strip of high resolution satellite imagery available through Google Earth and stretching into the Registan has revealed the presence of over 800 hitherto unrecorded archaeological sites. Many of…
The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire
Exploring Antidepressant Adherence at a Student-Run Free Mental Health Clinic
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (15 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)