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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... defines as “airs and graces” intelligible to that culture. Success in enterprise is a major resort of the otherwise inarticulate, uncomfortable, and ill-fitting. A dense array of dazzling products stands between them and likely ...
... defines as “airs and graces” intelligible to that culture. Success in enterprise is a major resort of the otherwise inarticulate, uncomfortable, and ill-fitting. A dense array of dazzling products stands between them and likely ...
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... defined · · • How we measure the dimension Why American business culture is that way At its best , this culture ... But taken too far . . . • At its best , this ( contrasting ) culture . . . · · But taken too far . . . Culture clashes ...
... defined · · • How we measure the dimension Why American business culture is that way At its best , this culture ... But taken too far . . . • At its best , this ( contrasting ) culture . . . · · But taken too far . . . Culture clashes ...
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... Defined Universalism ( rules , codes , laws , and generalizations ) Particularism ( exceptions , circumstances , relations ) Should we apply to this situation the most appropriate rule , even if the fit is inexact , or do special ...
... Defined Universalism ( rules , codes , laws , and generalizations ) Particularism ( exceptions , circumstances , relations ) Should we apply to this situation the most appropriate rule , even if the fit is inexact , or do special ...
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... defined as a question of national health policy . If addressed at this broader level , the whole society has a chance to improve its provision of health to its citizens — an important issue in the United States at this time . It was ...
... defined as a question of national health policy . If addressed at this broader level , the whole society has a chance to improve its provision of health to its citizens — an important issue in the United States at this time . It was ...
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... ( defined as elements outside their model ) —but the animosity is very much present . When Frenchman Benoit Mandelbrot trespassed on Anglo - American turf to explain to investment houses why numbers were inherently chaotic and could blow ...
... ( defined as elements outside their model ) —but the animosity is very much present . When Frenchman Benoit Mandelbrot trespassed on Anglo - American turf to explain to investment houses why numbers were inherently chaotic and could blow ...
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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