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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... competing with one another in serving customers thereby improve service to those customers? Yes. Is this a truth upon which the “science” of economics can be squarely based? Per- haps not. For have we not ignored the reverse proposition ...
... competing with one another in serving customers thereby improve service to those customers? Yes. Is this a truth upon which the “science” of economics can be squarely based? Per- haps not. For have we not ignored the reverse proposition ...
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... competitors that the laws of neoclassical economics actually work and real prices fall continually . But Taken Too Far ... No single end of a value's dimension is an unlimited good . Not every- thing in life can be easily rubricated ...
... competitors that the laws of neoclassical economics actually work and real prices fall continually . But Taken Too Far ... No single end of a value's dimension is an unlimited good . Not every- thing in life can be easily rubricated ...
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... competitive and workers seeking continued employment must yield to the verdicts of “ science ” ( Figure 1.7 ) . Mayo and Roethlisberger investigated the phenomenon of work restric- tion , the deliberate attempt by a work force to ...
... competitive and workers seeking continued employment must yield to the verdicts of “ science ” ( Figure 1.7 ) . Mayo and Roethlisberger investigated the phenomenon of work restric- tion , the deliberate attempt by a work force to ...
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... competition . Making rules that better cover multiplying exceptions is essentially a way of thinking . We all generalize until our generalizations break down and then we reconceive our categories of thought . It is we who invent rules ...
... competition . Making rules that better cover multiplying exceptions is essentially a way of thinking . We all generalize until our generalizations break down and then we reconceive our categories of thought . It is we who invent rules ...
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... competitive and innovative worldwide. Recognizing the part- truths of centralizing and decentralizing, the transnational corporation GLOBAL CENTRALIZED ( R ) GLOBAL CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION DECENTRALIZED 50 PARTICuLARIsm ...
... competitive and innovative worldwide. Recognizing the part- truths of centralizing and decentralizing, the transnational corporation GLOBAL CENTRALIZED ( R ) GLOBAL CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION DECENTRALIZED 50 PARTICuLARIsm ...
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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