Organizational Dissent and Argumentativeness: A Comparative Analysis between American and Indian Organizations

Abstract

Individuals were recruited from India (1111) and the United States (1087) to complete a survey analyzing the relationship between organizational dissent and argumentativeness. Correlation analysis revealed contrary to previous research, argumentativeness and the three types of organizational dissent were not positively correlated. Hierarchical regression modeling illustrated nationality to have a significant effect on the relationship between argumentativeness and displaced dissent and between argumentativeness and latent dissent. An individual's organizational tenure did not significantly influence the relationship between dissent and argumentativeness. Significant effects emerged between dissent and argumentativeness for the interaction between nationality and an individual's organizational tenure.

Keywords:

• Organizational Dissent
• Argumentativeness
• Nationality
• Intercultural Communication

Notes

[1] A dummy variable is an indicator variable that has a value of 0 and 1. This kind of variable is normally used for time and group effects in regression (Hardy, 1993). Centering explanatory variables, such as ARG_AP, ARG_AV, and ARG_GT provides two benefits. First, the estimates of the effects are more meaningful as the effects are at the mean and not 0. Second, “the estimates and their standard errors are similar as in the no-interaction model” (Agresti & Finlay, 2009, p. 344).