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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... influenced by Gregory Bateson, Nevitt Sanford, James McGregor Burns, Rollo May, and Mimi Silbert of the Delancey Street Foundation, where “dilemma theory” was born. Other important influences were Frank Barron, Carl Rogers, James ...
... influenced by Gregory Bateson, Nevitt Sanford, James McGregor Burns, Rollo May, and Mimi Silbert of the Delancey Street Foundation, where “dilemma theory” was born. Other important influences were Frank Barron, Carl Rogers, James ...
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... influences are located outside ) Synchronous time ( time is a dance of fine coordinations ) The odd - numbered chapters in this book explore and describe the par- ticular dilemma or values dimension . The even - numbered chapters ...
... influences are located outside ) Synchronous time ( time is a dance of fine coordinations ) The odd - numbered chapters in this book explore and describe the par- ticular dilemma or values dimension . The even - numbered chapters ...
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... Influence People re- mains a foremost example of the technological approach to friendship . Re- membering and repeating people's names during a conversation and lav- ishing them with praise are typical keys to unlock " friendship ...
... Influence People re- mains a foremost example of the technological approach to friendship . Re- membering and repeating people's names during a conversation and lav- ishing them with praise are typical keys to unlock " friendship ...
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... influence . What is considered sacred and religious is affronted by the “ Great Satan ” of American Universalism , intent on turning the world into a fast - food emporium — hence the assaults by French protesters against McDonald's ...
... influence . What is considered sacred and religious is affronted by the “ Great Satan ” of American Universalism , intent on turning the world into a fast - food emporium — hence the assaults by French protesters against McDonald's ...
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... influence what is known . Freedom Exists Within the Law It is important not to polarize freedom with lawfulness . The lawful growth and development of living organisms shows a freedom within the process of development . No flower , no ...
... influence what is known . Freedom Exists Within the Law It is important not to polarize freedom with lawfulness . The lawful growth and development of living organisms shows a freedom within the process of development . No flower , no ...
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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