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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... percent of the entrepreneurs in Ashton's The Industrial Revolution (in Great Britain) turned out to be of Nonconformist religions, many refugees from foreign persecution. At that time Nonconformists consti- tuted 5.0 percent of the ...
... percent of the entrepreneurs in Ashton's The Industrial Revolution (in Great Britain) turned out to be of Nonconformist religions, many refugees from foreign persecution. At that time Nonconformists consti- tuted 5.0 percent of the ...
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... per- cent of total sales and 14 percent of total jobs. The proportion of Indian and Chinese immigrants in this region is skewed toward senior positions, with fewer semiskilled workers propor- tionately than those found in the white ...
... per- cent of total sales and 14 percent of total jobs. The proportion of Indian and Chinese immigrants in this region is skewed toward senior positions, with fewer semiskilled workers propor- tionately than those found in the white ...
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... percent discount . ” This applies equally to all members of the universe , and no exceptions should be made . If the CEO's nephew is an employee , for example , he should have the same entitlement , with the same limits , as any other ...
... percent discount . ” This applies equally to all members of the universe , and no exceptions should be made . If the CEO's nephew is an employee , for example , he should have the same entitlement , with the same limits , as any other ...
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... percent discount if his uncle made him a present of the difference. But he is doing this as an un- cle for a particular relative and not as a CEO handing out a universal employee entitlement. In practice, it can be difficult to separate ...
... percent discount if his uncle made him a present of the difference. But he is doing this as an un- cle for a particular relative and not as a CEO handing out a universal employee entitlement. In practice, it can be difficult to separate ...
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... per- cent American , " more received in your wisdom than anyone else . Not long ago citizens of less than 100 percent purity could be summoned before the House Un - American Activities Committee or put on a Hollywood black- list . That ...
... per- cent American , " more received in your wisdom than anyone else . Not long ago citizens of less than 100 percent purity could be summoned before the House Un - American Activities Committee or put on a Hollywood black- list . That ...
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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