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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... — Charles Hampden - Turner at Harvard and Fons Trompenaars at Wharton . Without our American friends , this book could never have been written . Foremost among these friends are Fritz Roethlisberger, Russ Ackoff, By ix Acknowledgments.
... — Charles Hampden - Turner at Harvard and Fons Trompenaars at Wharton . Without our American friends , this book could never have been written . Foremost among these friends are Fritz Roethlisberger, Russ Ackoff, By ix Acknowledgments.
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... American culture. “The rice-growing village comes first,” says Chinese culture. Wherever people are not sure about basic values, culture makes that assertion for them, and that assertion has often meant survival or destruction. Consider ...
... American culture. “The rice-growing village comes first,” says Chinese culture. Wherever people are not sure about basic values, culture makes that assertion for them, and that assertion has often meant survival or destruction. Consider ...
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... America's current wealth comes from computer “nerds” and “techno-freaks,” consummate out- siders. Silicon Valley is America's great success story, so where do its lead- ers come from? A recent study by AnnaLee Saxenian for the Public ...
... America's current wealth comes from computer “nerds” and “techno-freaks,” consummate out- siders. Silicon Valley is America's great success story, so where do its lead- ers come from? A recent study by AnnaLee Saxenian for the Public ...
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... American Way” to every conceivable one, but to view the six dimensions and their mirror-image reversals as alternative ways of coping with life's exigencies. These dimensions, all reversible, create twelve different logics that in ...
... American Way” to every conceivable one, but to view the six dimensions and their mirror-image reversals as alternative ways of coping with life's exigencies. These dimensions, all reversible, create twelve different logics that in ...
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... American business culture is that way At its best , this culture ... But taken too far . . . • At its best , this ( contrasting ) culture . . . · · But taken too far . . . Culture clashes and derivative conflicts : in business ...
... American business culture is that way At its best , this culture ... But taken too far . . . • At its best , this ( contrasting ) culture . . . · · But taken too far . . . Culture clashes and derivative conflicts : in business ...
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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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