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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... Japan, and Southeast Asia books start at what is for westerners “the back” and end at “the front.” Instead of ... Japanese cultures, perhaps be- cause the family is considered prior to the person. When giving a taxi dri- ver your address ...
... Japan, and Southeast Asia books start at what is for westerners “the back” and end at “the front.” Instead of ... Japanese cultures, perhaps be- cause the family is considered prior to the person. When giving a taxi dri- ver your address ...
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... Japan Inc. , by Shotaro Ishinomori , con- sisting largely of strip cartoons translated ( by Alan G. Gleason ) from Japanese ; even the manga read by sober Japanese commuters on the sub- way are all evidences of diffuse ways of thinking ...
... Japan Inc. , by Shotaro Ishinomori , con- sisting largely of strip cartoons translated ( by Alan G. Gleason ) from Japanese ; even the manga read by sober Japanese commuters on the sub- way are all evidences of diffuse ways of thinking ...
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... Japan, and Singapore. Another variable would seem to be “trust in the legal system.” This is known to be low in Venezuela, Nepal, South Korea, Russia, and China. Without acceptance of national regulations it is difficult to universalize ...
... Japan, and Singapore. Another variable would seem to be “trust in the legal system.” This is known to be low in Venezuela, Nepal, South Korea, Russia, and China. Without acceptance of national regulations it is difficult to universalize ...
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... PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in animal , experiments ? 22 TIMES AS MANY LAWYERS PER CAPITA AS JAPAN Figure 1.4 AND HAPPY OBJECTIFIES BEAUTY AND CHARACTER. BUT IF TAKEN TOO FAR ...
... PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in animal , experiments ? 22 TIMES AS MANY LAWYERS PER CAPITA AS JAPAN Figure 1.4 AND HAPPY OBJECTIFIES BEAUTY AND CHARACTER. BUT IF TAKEN TOO FAR ...
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... Japan . The phenomenon of the lawyer joke in America is testimony : “ Give me three reasons why they are using lawyers instead of rats in animal experi- ments . " 1. Because there are more lawyers than rats 2. Because research ...
... Japan . The phenomenon of the lawyer joke in America is testimony : “ Give me three reasons why they are using lawyers instead of rats in animal experi- ments . " 1. Because there are more lawyers than rats 2. Because research ...
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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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