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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... Asia books start at what is for westerners “the back” and end at “the front.” Instead of reading from left to right later- ally as we do, they read from right to left and usually in vertical columns. Family names come second in most ...
... Asia books start at what is for westerners “the back” and end at “the front.” Instead of reading from left to right later- ally as we do, they read from right to left and usually in vertical columns. Family names come second in most ...
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... Asian corner store that stays open twelve hours a day to the transformation of silicon into novel forms. While those to the manor born are tempted to trickle away their lives in clever conversation and witty repartee, immigrants lack ...
... Asian corner store that stays open twelve hours a day to the transformation of silicon into novel forms. While those to the manor born are tempted to trickle away their lives in clever conversation and witty repartee, immigrants lack ...
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... Asia , in Serbia's ethnic cleansing , and in the resistance to universal human rights found in some ar- eas of the United States . Hence the Ku Klux Klan sets fire to crosses , trans- forming a symbol of worship into an object of terror ...
... Asia , in Serbia's ethnic cleansing , and in the resistance to universal human rights found in some ar- eas of the United States . Hence the Ku Klux Klan sets fire to crosses , trans- forming a symbol of worship into an object of terror ...
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... Asia , which comprises nations quite high in Particu- larism . Let us consider the two cultural “ folktales ” just related . In neither case did the culture reject the value at the other end of the dimension . The moral of High Noon was ...
... Asia , which comprises nations quite high in Particu- larism . Let us consider the two cultural “ folktales ” just related . In neither case did the culture reject the value at the other end of the dimension . The moral of High Noon was ...
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... Asia came the Russian default in international payments . Perfectly rational people withdrew their funds . Had LTCM set aside its " universal money machine ". Figure 2.16 Vicious and Virtuous Circles Figure 3.1 Individualism ...
... Asia came the Russian default in international payments . Perfectly rational people withdrew their funds . Had LTCM set aside its " universal money machine ". Figure 2.16 Vicious and Virtuous Circles Figure 3.1 Individualism ...
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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