Building Cross-Cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting ValuesYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 400 páginas divdivCross-cultural competence is a skill that has become increasingly essential for the managers in multinational companies. For other business people, this kind of competence may spell the difference between surviving and perishing in the new global economy. This book focuses on the dilemmas of these managers and offers constructive advice on dealing with culture shock and turning it to business advantage. Opposing values can be understood as complementary and reconcilable, say Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars. A manager who concentrates on integrating rather than polarizing values will make much better business decisions. Furthermore, the authors show, wealth is actually created by reconciling values-in-conflict. Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors’ extensive experience in international business, the book compares American cultural values to those of more than forty other nations. It explores six culture-defining dimensions and their reverse images (universalism-particularism, individualism- /DIV/DIV |
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... fitting. A dense array of dazzling products stands between them and likely prejudice and disparagement. It is not that “prejudice is good for you.” It clearly is not. What elevates the enterprising are their ways of overcoming prejudice ...
... fitting. A dense array of dazzling products stands between them and likely prejudice and disparagement. It is not that “prejudice is good for you.” It clearly is not. What elevates the enterprising are their ways of overcoming prejudice ...
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... fit is inexact, or do special circumstances and unique occurrences raise questions about the rule itself? How the Dilemma Is Defined Universalism (rules, codes, laws, and generalizations) (exceptions, circumstances, relations) ...
... fit is inexact, or do special circumstances and unique occurrences raise questions about the rule itself? How the Dilemma Is Defined Universalism (rules, codes, laws, and generalizations) (exceptions, circumstances, relations) ...
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... fitting into diverse cultural niches. For example, taste in food and styles of washing and cleaning are particular to different cultures. Hence AT&T is typical of a global, universalist corporation, while Unilever is typical of a ...
... fitting into diverse cultural niches. For example, taste in food and styles of washing and cleaning are particular to different cultures. Hence AT&T is typical of a global, universalist corporation, while Unilever is typical of a ...
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... fit to share this earth with us truth-tellers. Alternatively, we can claim that Universalist cultures, who would not even help their best friends in trouble, are too bloodless to belong to the family of humanity. There is fuel for ...
... fit to share this earth with us truth-tellers. Alternatively, we can claim that Universalist cultures, who would not even help their best friends in trouble, are too bloodless to belong to the family of humanity. There is fuel for ...
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... fit, and luxurious and still be priced relatively competitively. Ford has turned around the fortunes of Jaguar by using common platforms that lower cost while maintaining a premium product. New Paradigms Create Scientific Revolutions ...
... fit, and luxurious and still be priced relatively competitively. Ford has turned around the fortunes of Jaguar by using common platforms that lower cost while maintaining a premium product. New Paradigms Create Scientific Revolutions ...
Contenido
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Stories and Cases | 98 |
The Dilemma | 123 |
Stories and Cases | 159 |
The Dilemma | 189 |
The Dilemma | 295 |
Stories and Cases | 320 |
Appendix 1 Dilemma Theory and Its Origins | 345 |
Appendix 2 Exercises in Reconciliation | 349 |
Old and New Questionnaires | 353 |
Appendix 4 The Space Between Dimensions | 359 |
Bibliography | 365 |
Filmography | 377 |
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Building Cross-cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values Charles Hampden-Turner,Alfons Trompenaars Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Building Cross-cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values Charles Hampden-Turner,Alfons Trompenaars,Fons Trompenaars Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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