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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... relationships can be forced to yield to the supremacy of law . As Archibald Cox , special prosecu- tor for the Watergate investigations , put it just before President Nixon fired him , " Whether this is to be a government of laws or men ...
... relationships can be forced to yield to the supremacy of law . As Archibald Cox , special prosecu- tor for the Watergate investigations , put it just before President Nixon fired him , " Whether this is to be a government of laws or men ...
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... RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows on scandal ,. I'M SO PROUD TELE FUNDAMENTALISM BENCH MARKING 100 % AMERICAN HOW TO WIN FRIENTS PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in animal ...
... RELATIONSHIPS descent of his trousers . Scandal follows on scandal ,. I'M SO PROUD TELE FUNDAMENTALISM BENCH MARKING 100 % AMERICAN HOW TO WIN FRIENTS PEOPLE MAKES EVERYTHING LINEAR Why are they using lawyers instead of rats in animal ...
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... relationships . There is no time to have more than a few particular friends and associ- ates . The individual who builds unique mutualities is in a very strong po- sition . Somewhat more particularist cultures like France are famous for ...
... relationships . There is no time to have more than a few particular friends and associ- ates . The individual who builds unique mutualities is in a very strong po- sition . Somewhat more particularist cultures like France are famous for ...
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... relationship particular . Such re- lationships may include jointly developed strategies and shared secrets . Another contrast is between low - cost strategy , which utilizes the near- universal appeal of cheapness , and premium ...
... relationship particular . Such re- lationships may include jointly developed strategies and shared secrets . Another contrast is between low - cost strategy , which utilizes the near- universal appeal of cheapness , and premium ...
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... relationship should precede the exercise of legal rights? Samsung had had our book translated into Korean at their own expense. It was sent to us with their original letter as a gift. Inquiries revealed that the translation was of the ...
... relationship should precede the exercise of legal rights? Samsung had had our book translated into Korean at their own expense. It was sent to us with their original letter as a gift. Inquiries revealed that the translation was of the ...
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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