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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... Immigrants, refugees, outsiders, and diverse religious and ethnic groups within cultures have so often been ... Immigrant Entrepreneurs. The state- ment 6 InTRODuCTIOn.
... Immigrants, refugees, outsiders, and diverse religious and ethnic groups within cultures have so often been ... Immigrant Entrepreneurs. The state- ment 6 InTRODuCTIOn.
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... immigrants in this region is skewed toward senior positions, with fewer semiskilled workers propor- tionately than those found in the white population. Because so many of these immigrants run their own companies, or cluster near the top ...
... immigrants in this region is skewed toward senior positions, with fewer semiskilled workers propor- tionately than those found in the white population. Because so many of these immigrants run their own companies, or cluster near the top ...
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... immigrants are underrepresented in administrative positions. Value Is not “Added,” but Reconciled One of the half-truths of economics is the idea of “added value.” In Adam Smith's pin factory, the pins went through successive stages of ...
... immigrants are underrepresented in administrative positions. Value Is not “Added,” but Reconciled One of the half-truths of economics is the idea of “added value.” In Adam Smith's pin factory, the pins went through successive stages of ...
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... immigrants have proved so adept at free enterprise. Creating wealth solves the problems of being very different from your environment. It is a “training ground for reconciliation.” Are There Universal Dilemmas of Wealth Creation ...
... immigrants have proved so adept at free enterprise. Creating wealth solves the problems of being very different from your environment. It is a “training ground for reconciliation.” Are There Universal Dilemmas of Wealth Creation ...
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... immigrants to the United States over three centuries have been in- vited to share American beliefs and pledge their allegiance . • Immigrants have voluntarily relegated their ethnic origins , places of birth , and so forth to a ...
... immigrants to the United States over three centuries have been in- vited to share American beliefs and pledge their allegiance . • Immigrants have voluntarily relegated their ethnic origins , places of birth , and so forth to a ...
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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