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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... shares at a 5 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 ...
... shares at a 5 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 ...
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... shares at a 10 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 ...
... shares at a 10 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 ...
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... shares a common law tradi- tion. Catholics are, on the whole, less universalist: see the scores for Brazil, Spain, Poland, France, Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela. Buddhist, Confu- cian, Hindu, and Shinto countries are more particularist ...
... shares a common law tradi- tion. Catholics are, on the whole, less universalist: see the scores for Brazil, Spain, Poland, France, Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela. Buddhist, Confu- cian, Hindu, and Shinto countries are more particularist ...
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... share American beliefs and pledge their allegiance . • Immigrants have voluntarily relegated their ethnic origins , places of birth , and so forth to a commitment to a new belief system . • Protestant cosmology holds that God wound up a ...
... share American beliefs and pledge their allegiance . • Immigrants have voluntarily relegated their ethnic origins , places of birth , and so forth to a commitment to a new belief system . • Protestant cosmology holds that God wound up a ...
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... share something incomparable seems to be of no interest ! The stereotyped nature of “ universal ” criteria is never more obvious than in beauty pageants , where the measurements and sentiments of Miss America are ludicrously limited to ...
... share something incomparable seems to be of no interest ! The stereotyped nature of “ universal ” criteria is never more obvious than in beauty pageants , where the measurements and sentiments of Miss America are ludicrously limited to ...
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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