Coordinators:
José Ramón Pin and Lourdes Susaeta, assistant researcher.
With the collaboration of SECIPI and the Alfa Program of the European Commission.

Summary
The CELA participates as member of the Network of European and Latin American Universities coordinated by the S.A.A. Business School - University of Turin (Italy) in carrying out this research. The publication of various practical cases and research papers on micro-credits are planned over a period of two years.
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Coordinator:
Steven A.Y. Poelmans

Team:

• Steven A.Y. Poelmans, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

• Nuria Chinchilla, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

• Pablo Cardona, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

• Paul E. Spector, University of South Florida, U.S.

• Kate Sparks, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K.

• Cary L. Cooper, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K.

• Raúl J. Abreu Diniz, AESE, Portugal

• Alfonso Bolio, IPADE, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico

• Pablo Ferreiro De Babot, Universidad de Piura, Peru

• Raúl Lagomarsino, IEEM, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay

• Antonio Rodríguez López, IDE, Ecuador

• Alejandro Sioli, IAE, Universidad Austral, Argentina

Summary
Over the past decade, various multicultural and large-scale studies have analyzed the background of well-being (psychological and physical tension, satisfaction at work…) among numerous nations and cultures (Peterson et al., 1995, 1997; Sparks et al., 1999; Spector et al., 2001). However, the countries of Latin America have been generally underrepresented in those studies. This study proves a series of hypotheses put forth in these multicultural studies based on a sample of 748 executives in 8 Latin American countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Portugal and Spain.

These hypotheses explain well-being according to variables that can be either on a macro level (the country’s state of economic development, the differences in cultural values…) or on a micro level (factors perceived as stressful, the workplace, the home-work conflict…).

The preliminary results reveal various tendencies: 1) that the researchers should be very cautious when analyzing all Latin American executives as coming from a single, homogenous culture; 2) that the variables per country do not explain the differences in well-being; 3) that the differences in psychological, physical and work satisfaction tensions require standard models that combine various levels of individual variables.