Ethical issues in cross-cultural management research: an overview

Research is the discovery and description of regularities in the universe. It helps in the development of theories to explain these regularities. The common goal of Cross-Cultural Research is to understand behavioral variability across culture. As the Corporate World in the present era has started acting as a global village, the role of Cross Cultural Management has gained utmost importance. But management is incomplete without a proper research, even in case of managing individuals from different cultural backgrounds. While a research is being carried out, it faces various issues in which ethics is one of the major aspect. In cross cultural management research, we need to be sure to choose reliable and valid measures. The ethical issues in cross cultural management research have started gaining importance worldwide, as such issues were often ignored while researches were being carried out. In fact, it has now become the standard practice to ensure compliance with ethics. The basic objective of this article is to enlighten the ethical issues involved in Cross-Cultural management research as per the present scenario.