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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... communitarian view, held by at least half the world's people. Note the essential ambiguity of this illustration, based on the work of M. C. Es- cher. Who is doing the writing, and what is being written? Depending on your culture, the ...
... communitarian view, held by at least half the world's people. Note the essential ambiguity of this illustration, based on the work of M. C. Es- cher. Who is doing the writing, and what is being written? Depending on your culture, the ...
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... society, consisting as these do of multiple persons, be our principal ... societies are dismissive of charity, participation, succour, compassion, and social ... Communitarian society may take great pride and set much store by how many ...
... society, consisting as these do of multiple persons, be our principal ... societies are dismissive of charity, participation, succour, compassion, and social ... Communitarian society may take great pride and set much store by how many ...
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... communitarian. Protestantism is again an influence, but not as strong as in cultures high in Universalism–Particular- ism. All pioneer capitalist countries are individualist—such as Britain, the United States, Australia—but Communitarianism ...
... communitarian. Protestantism is again an influence, but not as strong as in cultures high in Universalism–Particular- ism. All pioneer capitalist countries are individualist—such as Britain, the United States, Australia—but Communitarianism ...
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... countries only in wartime. Singapore and France have also levied taxes on those who do not train their work forces and try to “free-ride” on the employee training of other companies. A communitarian culture encourages its members to ...
... countries only in wartime. Singapore and France have also levied taxes on those who do not train their work forces and try to “free-ride” on the employee training of other companies. A communitarian culture encourages its members to ...
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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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