Table 1.
Match of employee groups with Chinese and Belgian companies.
| Chinese | Belgian | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | ||
| Male | 8 | 10 |
| Female | 13 | 10 |
| Sector | ||
| Administration management | 3 | 2 |
| Engineering, manufacturing or production | 4 | 3 |
| Education and research | 5 | 3 |
| Finance or accounting | 2 | 3 |
| Government | 4 | 7 |
| Support services | 3 | 2 |
| Tenure | ||
| More than 30 years | 1 | 2 |
| 20–29 years | 0 | 1 |
| 15–19 years | 1 | 2 |
| 10–14 years | 2 | 7 |
| 5–9 years | 8 | 3 |
| 1–4 years | 9 | 5 |
| Education | ||
| Higher than master | 13 | 15 |
| Bachelor | 8 | 3 |
| Secondary school or lower | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 21 | 20 |
| Horizontal/Vertical individualism/collectivisma | ||
| Horizontal individualism | 5.06 | 4.95 |
| Horizontal collectivism | 4.67 | 5.56 |
| Vertical individualism | 3.78 | 4.04 |
| Vertical collectivism | 4.80 | 4.01 |
a Mean scores of both countries’ interviewees on the four dimensions according to the questionnaire results.