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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... 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 the duty ...
... 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 the duty ...
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... Singapore, China, and France among the most communitarian. Protestantism is again an in- fluence, but not as strong as in cultures high in Universalism–Particular- ism. All pioneer capitalist countries are individualist—such as Britain ...
... Singapore, China, and France among the most communitarian. Protestantism is again an in- fluence, but not as strong as in cultures high in Universalism–Particular- ism. All pioneer capitalist countries are individualist—such as Britain ...
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... Singapore are obliged to encounter societal pressures. This is in direct contrast to the American experience, to which we now turn. Why Is American Culture Individualistic? The business culture of the United States is highly ...
... Singapore are obliged to encounter societal pressures. This is in direct contrast to the American experience, to which we now turn. Why Is American Culture Individualistic? The business culture of the United States is highly ...
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... 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 leave a legacy to society ...
... 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 leave a legacy to society ...
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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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