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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... 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? Do teams, groups, and companies ...
... 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? Do teams, groups, and companies ...
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... customers and Society better paras 27 um in num nas se me oy рибно віпредите hg , Figure 2 tion thereby improve the morale and power of individual members ? Yes . Would it not then be a wiser economic science that encompassed both these ...
... customers and Society better paras 27 um in num nas se me oy рибно віпредите hg , Figure 2 tion thereby improve the morale and power of individual members ? Yes . Would it not then be a wiser economic science that encompassed both these ...
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... customers. You create an elaborate mission statement and find that the changing en- vironment renders it obsolete. If creating wealth reconciles value differences, this would also explain why some immigrants have proved so adept at free ...
... customers. You create an elaborate mission statement and find that the changing en- vironment renders it obsolete. If creating wealth reconciles value differences, this would also explain why some immigrants have proved so adept at free ...
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... customers , or do we grasp that a particular re- quest today could well start a universal trend in the future ? Customization , where the product is specially made for the recipient , is an important source of prototype devices . The ...
... customers , or do we grasp that a particular re- quest today could well start a universal trend in the future ? Customization , where the product is specially made for the recipient , is an important source of prototype devices . The ...
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... customer . This is be- cause core competence , like “ Intel Inside , ” is a core scientific development , while closeness to customers makes every relationship particular . Such re- lationships may include jointly developed strategies ...
... customer . This is be- cause core competence , like “ Intel Inside , ” is a core scientific development , while closeness to customers makes every relationship particular . Such re- lationships may include jointly developed strategies ...
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The Dilemma | 68 |
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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