Paternalistic Leadership in Four East Asian Societies

Generalizability and Cultural Differences of the Triad Model

Bibliographic Data

ID2314481
AuthorsBor-Shiuan Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan), Bor‐Shiuan Cheng (0000-0001-7189-5081, National Taiwan University, corresponding author), Diana Boer (0009-0005-9713-6370, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany), Li-Fang Chou (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan), Li‐Fang Chou (0000-0003-0370-2991, National Cheng Kung University), Min-Ping Huang (Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shigemi Yoneyama (0000-0002-3795-4313, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan), Duksup Shim (Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea), Shim Duksup (0000-0002-3978-9091, Chonnam National University), Jian-Min Sun (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Jianmin Sun (0000-0001-7696-3231, Renmin University of China), Tzu-Ting Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan), Tzu‐Ting Lin (0000-0003-1629-4456, National Taiwan University), Wan-Ju Chou (National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan), Chou-Yu Tsai (0000-0003-2749-9457, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York), Chou‐Yu Tsai (0000-0001-9842-7288, Binghamton University)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue1
Pages82-90
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022022113490070
OpenAlexW2101818444
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited25

Paternalistic leadership has been claimed to be one dominant leadership style in Asia. However, research failed to assess its comparability and applicability across East Asian contexts. The triad model of paternalistic leadership entails elements of authoritarian, benevolent, and moral character leadership. This article investigates the triad model of paternalistic leadership in mainland China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Paternalistic leadership occurs in an equivalent three-factorial structure indicating the applicability of the triad model, whereas some of the item intercepts vary between the four East Asian employee samples. These findings indicate generalizability of the meaning attributed to paternalistic leadership via three components, whereas the different measurement intercepts epitomize culture-specific scales across the four Asian contexts. The assessment of weak and strong measurement invariance is essential for an emerging cross-cultural research on paternalistic leadership by establishing evidence for the applicability and generalizability (including their boundaries) across cultural contexts

Asian values · Authoritarianism · China · Democracy · East Asia · Generalizability theory · Leadership style · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Triad (sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership

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