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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... human creativity and innovation are infinitely variable, but we see this variation as an endless series of responses to the same underly- ing dilemmas. The answer to business problems may not be to apply “The American Way” to every ...
... human creativity and innovation are infinitely variable, but we see this variation as an endless series of responses to the same underly- ing dilemmas. The answer to business problems may not be to apply “The American Way” to every ...
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... human rights , competitiveness ) 3. Specificity ( atomistic , reductive analytic , objective ) 4. Achieved status ( what you've done , your track record ) 5. Inner direction ( conscience and convictions are located inside ) 6 ...
... human rights , competitiveness ) 3. Specificity ( atomistic , reductive analytic , objective ) 4. Achieved status ( what you've done , your track record ) 5. Inner direction ( conscience and convictions are located inside ) 6 ...
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... human and should be treated the same , thereby upholding the universal rights of both genders . Alternatively we can insist that men and women are different and should be treated differ- ently . Each approach has advantages , but also ...
... human and should be treated the same , thereby upholding the universal rights of both genders . Alternatively we can insist that men and women are different and should be treated differ- ently . Each approach has advantages , but also ...
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... endlessly repeated the career of the Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter , where the ascent of his rhetoric was accompanied by the COLONISES HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows THE DILEMMA 19.
... endlessly repeated the career of the Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter , where the ascent of his rhetoric was accompanied by the COLONISES HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows THE DILEMMA 19.
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... HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows on scandal ,. I'M SO PROUD TELE FUNDAMENTALISM BENCH MARKING 100 % AMERICAN HOW TO WIN FRIENTS PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in ...
... HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows on scandal ,. I'M SO PROUD TELE FUNDAMENTALISM BENCH MARKING 100 % AMERICAN HOW TO WIN FRIENTS PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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