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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... organized by Anne Deering of A. T. Kearney . Charles Hampden - Turner Cambridge University Judge Institute of Management Studies 24 Trumpington Street Cambridge CP2 1AG Tel .: 44 1223 339700 Fax : 44 1223 339701 Fons Trompenaars ...
... organized by Anne Deering of A. T. Kearney . Charles Hampden - Turner Cambridge University Judge Institute of Management Studies 24 Trumpington Street Cambridge CP2 1AG Tel .: 44 1223 339700 Fax : 44 1223 339701 Fons Trompenaars ...
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... organization, community, or nation in which that indi- vidual has membership. Specificity emphasizes precision, analysis, and “getting to the point,” while Diffuseness looks to wholes and to the larger context. But look what happens ...
... organization, community, or nation in which that indi- vidual has membership. Specificity emphasizes precision, analysis, and “getting to the point,” while Diffuseness looks to wholes and to the larger context. But look what happens ...
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... organizations grow healthier, wealthier, and wiser as a consequence. It is true that human creativity and innovation are infinitely variable, but we see this variation as an endless series of responses to the same underly- ing dilemmas ...
... organizations grow healthier, wealthier, and wiser as a consequence. It is true that human creativity and innovation are infinitely variable, but we see this variation as an endless series of responses to the same underly- ing dilemmas ...
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... dilemmas have been reconciled , using both storytelling and business case studies to show how organizational dilemmas have been resolved to create wealth . The odd - numbered chapters detail • How the dilemma INTRODUCTION 11.
... dilemmas have been reconciled , using both storytelling and business case studies to show how organizational dilemmas have been resolved to create wealth . The odd - numbered chapters detail • How the dilemma INTRODUCTION 11.
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... organized by unions , but usually a form of spontaneous revolt against coercion and dehumanization in the workplace . Against the formal system of required tasks and interactions , there arose an informal system that sought to defy ...
... organized by unions , but usually a form of spontaneous revolt against coercion and dehumanization in the workplace . Against the formal system of required tasks and interactions , there arose an informal system that sought to defy ...
Contenido
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The Dilemma | 68 |
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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