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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... profits and revenues are heading down . They may provide you with a crucial sec- ond chance . Another common polarization that reflects Universalism - Particular- ism is the distinction between global corporations , typically ...
... profits and revenues are heading down . They may provide you with a crucial sec- ond chance . Another common polarization that reflects Universalism - Particular- ism is the distinction between global corporations , typically ...
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... profit from rarity , before competitors move in . The “ generic " nature of the low - cost product is to make a profit from scale economies before rivals also merge . But the company or the country who delivers growing value at ever ...
... profit from rarity , before competitors move in . The “ generic " nature of the low - cost product is to make a profit from scale economies before rivals also merge . But the company or the country who delivers growing value at ever ...
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... profit from their desperation . ” We can also express these three higher levels of moral judgment as one of our dual - axis dilemmas , with level 6 as the reconciliation between levels 4 and 5 , illustrated in Figure 2.11 . The law and ...
... profit from their desperation . ” We can also express these three higher levels of moral judgment as one of our dual - axis dilemmas , with level 6 as the reconciliation between levels 4 and 5 , illustrated in Figure 2.11 . The law and ...
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... profit from their brilliance , and for four years they did just that . They had invented nothing less than a money machine operating on mathematical principles . Derivative financial products known as swaps and options allow you to buy ...
... profit from their brilliance , and for four years they did just that . They had invented nothing less than a money machine operating on mathematical principles . Derivative financial products known as swaps and options allow you to buy ...
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... profit on our cars. A reasonable profit is right but not too much. So it has been my policy to force the price of the car down as fast 74 COmmunITARIAnIsm InDIVIDuALIsm –
... profit on our cars. A reasonable profit is right but not too much. So it has been my policy to force the price of the car down as fast 74 COmmunITARIAnIsm InDIVIDuALIsm –
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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