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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... environment. It is a “training ground for reconciliation.” Are There Universal Dilemmas of Wealth Creation? Because differences abound between functions, disciplines, genders, industries, ethnic groups, and nations of the world ...
... environment. It is a “training ground for reconciliation.” Are There Universal Dilemmas of Wealth Creation? Because differences abound between functions, disciplines, genders, industries, ethnic groups, and nations of the world ...
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... environment. However, none of these three types meet the exigencies and challenges of modern world markets. The authors advocate a fourth type: the “trans- national corporation,” which has the capacities of the three other types, along ...
... environment. However, none of these three types meet the exigencies and challenges of modern world markets. The authors advocate a fourth type: the “trans- national corporation,” which has the capacities of the three other types, along ...
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... environmental inputs . The human circulatory sys- tem is fractal ( bottom left ) , as are the tightly coiled intestines and the gray matter of our brains . Finally , fractal images abound in art , especially Per- sian , Islamic , Indian ...
... environmental inputs . The human circulatory sys- tem is fractal ( bottom left ) , as are the tightly coiled intestines and the gray matter of our brains . Finally , fractal images abound in art , especially Per- sian , Islamic , Indian ...
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... environment, now faster, now slower, supplying just the amount of blood and level of adrenaline required. Vicious and Virtuous Circles Thus far our account of conflict and reconciliation has been tinged with optimism. Two values collide ...
... environment, now faster, now slower, supplying just the amount of blood and level of adrenaline required. Vicious and Virtuous Circles Thus far our account of conflict and reconciliation has been tinged with optimism. Two values collide ...
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... environments. Communitarians may be willing to share both the rewards of success and the blame for failure and criminality. How We Measure Individualism–Communitarianism We measure the extent to which a culture is individualist or ...
... environments. Communitarians may be willing to share both the rewards of success and the blame for failure and criminality. How We Measure Individualism–Communitarianism We measure the extent to which a culture is individualist or ...
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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