Crticism of Heijis Research

Heijis research paper gives an account of cross- cultural perception and power dynamics across changing organizational and national contexts studies about the power differences and cultural perception in Netherlands and Curacao. The perception of Dutch and Curacaoans are presented from specifically two organizations namely The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and The Police. The essay has been organised in the following way. The first part deals with the theoretical framework of the literature used by Heijis. Then the paper critically talks about the research method and design adopted for collection of data and the findings which are presented along with the conclusions. Finally, implications of the study are provided at the end of this paper.

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The article mainly focuses on the power differences in cross – cultural perception among organization and national context. Heijis, 2010 mentions the work of earlier researchers on cross cultural perception and power differences along with the arguments stated by the different researchers and pointing out the focus of this article towards the power imbalance on perception.

The research article uses a set of exploratory case studies involving two organizations The Internal Revenue Service and The Police in the countries of Dutch and Curacaoans to analyze the perception and power differences. A case study strategy is of peculiar interest when a rich understanding of the research and the processes are required (Morris and Wood, 1991). These case studies were analyzed on the basis of qualitative approach including the methodological triangulation. Triangulation refers to the usage of different data collection techniques in one study to understand the case better (Saunders et al. 2008).

Participant observation and interviews, the different methodological triangulation techniques to collect data were conducted for both Dutch and Curacaoans in the two organizations in their respective countries. The interviews were...