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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... Dilemma 13 2 Reconciling Universalism and Particularism : Stories and Cases 33 3 Individualism - Communitarianism : The Dilemma 68 4 Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism : Stories and Cases 98 5 Specificity - Diffuseness : The ...
... Dilemma 13 2 Reconciling Universalism and Particularism : Stories and Cases 33 3 Individualism - Communitarianism : The Dilemma 68 4 Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism : Stories and Cases 98 5 Specificity - Diffuseness : The ...
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... Dilemma 234 10 Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases 267 11 Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix 1 Dilemma Theory and Its ...
... Dilemma 234 10 Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases 267 11 Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix 1 Dilemma Theory and Its ...
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... Dilemma We all know the old dilemma of the chicken and the egg. Which came first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas. Which came first—the universal rule or the exceptional event? Which is ...
... Dilemma We all know the old dilemma of the chicken and the egg. Which came first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas. Which came first—the universal rule or the exceptional event? Which is ...
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... dilemma. Exceptions must be integrated into a new rule, individuals must be integrated into the community, analyzed pieces must be integrated into a new synthesis. This also applies to many products. Consider the differences incorpo ...
... dilemma. Exceptions must be integrated into a new rule, individuals must be integrated into the community, analyzed pieces must be integrated into a new synthesis. This also applies to many products. Consider the differences incorpo ...
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... Dilemmas of Wealth Creation? Because differences abound between functions, disciplines, genders, industries, ethnic groups, and nations of the world, reconciling such dilemmas should be an important part of creating wealth, and of ...
... Dilemmas of Wealth Creation? Because differences abound between functions, disciplines, genders, industries, ethnic groups, and nations of the world, reconciling such dilemmas should be an important part of creating wealth, and of ...
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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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