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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... economics can be squarely based? Per- haps not. For have we not ignored the reverse proposition? Do teams, groups, and companies, wherein persons cooperate harmoniously with each other, thereby serve the individual interests of their ...
... economics can be squarely based? Per- haps not. For have we not ignored the reverse proposition? Do teams, groups, and companies, wherein persons cooperate harmoniously with each other, thereby serve the individual interests of their ...
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... economic science that encompassed both these sequences , not just one ? Perhaps so . The " circular form " by which values interact is shown in Figure 2. " The descending arc " moves left and top down . This is the traditional western ...
... economic science that encompassed both these sequences , not just one ? Perhaps so . The " circular form " by which values interact is shown in Figure 2. " The descending arc " moves left and top down . This is the traditional western ...
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... economics is the idea of “added value.” In Adam Smith's pin factory, the pins went through successive stages of man ... economy with luxury—or freedom for the dri- ver with antiskid and crash-protection devices—but it is possible ...
... economics is the idea of “added value.” In Adam Smith's pin factory, the pins went through successive stages of man ... economy with luxury—or freedom for the dri- ver with antiskid and crash-protection devices—but it is possible ...
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... 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 . There are whole subjects and areas of ...
... 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 . There are whole subjects and areas of ...
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... then surely it is better to be universalist . That is not our in- terpretation . Nor does this make sense in light of the recent economic LAW AND ORDER ( UNIVERSALISM ) PARTICULAR ACTS OF LOVE 38 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
... then surely it is better to be universalist . That is not our in- terpretation . Nor does this make sense in light of the recent economic LAW AND ORDER ( UNIVERSALISM ) PARTICULAR ACTS OF LOVE 38 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
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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