Employee Profile

Tor Grenness

Professor Emeritus

Department of Communication and Culture

Room number C4I-005
E-mail tor.grenness@bi.no

Area of Expertise

Intercultural Communication and Management
Executive Pay
Scandinavian Leadership

Publications

Shows 5 of 17 publication(s)

Article Tor Grenness (2022)

“If You Don’t Cheat, You Lose”: An Explorative Study of Business Students’ Perceptions of Cheating Behavior

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2022.2116479

Student academic dishonesty is a pervasive problem for higher education institutions all over the world. The purpose of the present study is to take an interpretative, qualitative approach intended to understand student thinking and reflections when it comes to the perceived seriousness and prevalence of cheating. Peer interviews, i.e., students interviewing students, were chosen as the data collection method. Open and analytical coding based on the principles of grounded theory provided the foundations for the analyses. Overall, the results of this study support previous correlational findings, but they also demonstrate that many students tend to talk about cheating as if it is “part of the game”. It furthermore seems that students rate different forms of cheating from less to more serious, and that some forms of cheating are not perceived as cheating at all. “Everybody else does it” is obviously a widespread belief, which easily leads to—as one informant expressed it—“if you don’t cheat, you lose”. In order to deal with student cheating, the students themselves recommended fewer take-home examinations and more use of continuous assessment. The findings further indicate that schools should make an effort to build a “non-cheating culture”. Rather than punishing students, convincing them that normal behavior is not to cheat, and that cheating benefits no one is probably the best way to deal with this behavior.

Article Tor Grenness, Gillian Warner-Søderholm (2018)

Project GLOBE differences in values and practices scores - mind the gap: the case of the nordics

Journal of International Doctoral Research 7(1) p. 116-142

Article Tor Grenness (2017)

Storytelling as a way for Humanizing Research Methods

Journal of International Doctoral Research 5(1)

Chapter Gillian Warner-Søderholm, Tor Grenness (2016)

Kulturelle normer, selvsensur og ytringsfrihet: finner vi regionale forskjeller?

Kommunikasjon og ytringsfrihet i organisasjoner p. 247-272

Chapter Tor Grenness (2015)

Culture matters: space and leadership in a cross-cultural perspective

Leadership in spaces and places p. 199-217 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477920.00021

Article Tor Grenness (2015)

National culture and economic performance: a cross-cultural study on culture's impact on econimic performance across the 27 member countries of the european union

Journal of International Doctoral Research 4(1) p. 69-97 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2013.13672abstract

Article B. Sebastian Reiche, Pablo Cardona, Yih-Teen Lee, Miguel Ángel Canela, Esther Akinnukawe, Jon P. Briscoe, César Bullara, Maria Victoria Caparas, Dan V. Caprar, Dallied Charlemagne, ... (2014) Tor Grenness, Wei He, Konrad Jamro, Astrid Kainzbauer, Kathrin Koester, Alma Lazo, Alejandro Moreno, Michael J. Morley, Vivian Myloni, Sadia Nadeem, Marisa Nieto Aguirre, Alexey Svishchev, Scott N. Taylor, Helen Wilkinson (2014) Show all contributors

Why do managers engage in trustworthy behavior? A multilevel cross-cultural study in 18 countries

Personnel Psychology 67(1) p. 61-98 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12038

Chapter Tor Grenness (2013)

Manager-Subordinate Trust Relationships in Norway

Manager-Subordinate trust: A Global Perspective p. 59-77

Article Tor Grenness (2012)

På jakt etter en norsk ledelsesmodell

Magma forskning og viten p. 51-59

Article Tor Grenness (2012)

Hofstede revisited: Is making the ecological fallacy when using Hofstede's instrument on individual behavior really unavoidable?

International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) 7(7) p. 75-84 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v7n7p75

This paper suggests that avoiding the ecological fallacy is - under certain circumstances - possible. One problem in (cross-cultural) research is that there are often two levels of theorizing (individual and country) that needs to be taken into account when data are being analyzed and conclusions are drawn. Typically, as is the case with Hofstede's (1980) well-known research, cultural values are measured on country level. Consequently, researchers who make causal inferences from such group data to individual behaviors are making the ecological fallacy, i.e they (most often) wrongly assume that relationships observed for groups necessarily hold for individuals. If, however, a method could be found that could help determining how individuals behave from the study of aggregated data, the usefulness of Hofstede's research (and research on aggregated data in general) from a manager's point of view would definitely increase. In this paper the problem of the ecological fallacy, as well as different methods of avoiding it is discussed, and a particular solution of the problem is suggested.

Article Tor Grenness, Donatella De Paoli (2012)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor Norway

Journal of the Moscow State University p. 29-55

Article Tor Grenness (2011)

The impact of National Culture on CEO Compensation and Salary Gaps between CEOs and Manufacturing Workers

Compensation and Benefits Review 43(2) p. 100-108 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886368710393136

Article Tor Grenness (2011)

Will the Scandinavian leadership Model survive the forces of Globalization? A SWOT analysis

International Journal of Business and Globalisation 7(3) p. 332-351 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2011.042062

Article Tor Grenness (2010)

Trusting people you don't know more than trusting your manager - a paradox or isit possible to explain? lessons from cross-cultural studies on trust

Advances in Business Related Scientific Research Journal 1(2) p. 93-109

Chapter Tor Grenness (2005)

Interview Tor Grenness (2011)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor

NORKOMM(5)Nordic Research Seminar on Communication,2011,

Conference lecture Tor Grenness, Donatella De Paoli (2011)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative work place design. The case of Telenor, Norway

The 9th EISAM workshop on International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management. Moscow, Oct 21-22

Conference lecture Donatella Maria De Paoli, Tor Grenness (2011)

Hvordan kan du vite om noe er sant? Veiviser i forsknings- og utredningsarbeid for studenter, ledere, konsulenter og journalister

Cappelen Damm Akademisk

Academic Degrees
Year	Academic Department	Degree
2000	Brunel University	D.B.A.
1990	University of Oslo	Master Cand. Polit.

Work Experience
Year	Employer	Job Title
2001 - Present	BI Norwegian Business School	Associate Professor
2001 - 2001	BI Norwegian Business School	Assistant professor
2000 - 2000	BI Norwegian BusinessSchool	Assistant Professor II

BI Business Review articles:

BI Business Review

How to win the boss's trust

Employees who help colleagues without thinking about what they get out of it, win the trust, support and goodwill of their managers.

Tor Grenness

Area of Expertise

Publications

“If You Don’t Cheat, You Lose”: An Explorative Study of Business Students’ Perceptions of Cheating Behavior

Project GLOBE differences in values and practices scores - mind the gap: the case of the nordics

Storytelling as a way for Humanizing Research Methods

Kulturelle normer, selvsensur og ytringsfrihet: finner vi regionale forskjeller?

Culture matters: space and leadership in a cross-cultural perspective

National culture and economic performance: a cross-cultural study on culture's impact on econimic performance across the 27 member countries of the european union

Why do managers engage in trustworthy behavior? A multilevel cross-cultural study in 18 countries

Manager-Subordinate Trust Relationships in Norway

På jakt etter en norsk ledelsesmodell

Hofstede revisited: Is making the ecological fallacy when using Hofstede's instrument on individual behavior really unavoidable?

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor Norway

The impact of National Culture on CEO Compensation and Salary Gaps between CEOs and Manufacturing Workers

Will the Scandinavian leadership Model survive the forces of Globalization? A SWOT analysis

Trusting people you don't know more than trusting your manager - a paradox or isit possible to explain? lessons from cross-cultural studies on trust

Refleksjoner på frynsegoder i et tverrfaglig perspektiv

Refleksjoner rundt frynsegoder i et tverrkulturelt perspektiv

Scandinavian Managers on Scandinavian Management

Typisk norsk ledelse

Ledelse er hvem, hva, hvor

National Culture and Economic Performance

Hvordan kan du vite om noe er sant? 2. utgave

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative work place design. The case of Telenor, Norway

Tansfer of Telenors Scandinavian Workform, leadership philosophy and alternative office space design in Asia

A reciprocal model of trust in manager-subordinate relationships: an eighteen-country study

Managementspråkets nøkkelbegreper

Hvordan kan du vite om noe er sant? Veiviser i forsknings- og utredningsarbeid for studenter, ledere, konsulenter og journalister

How to win the boss's trust