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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... Social aspects . I. Trompenaars , Alfons . II . Title . HD62.4.H35 2000 00-028107 658'.049 - dc21 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and ...
... Social aspects . I. Trompenaars , Alfons . II . Title . HD62.4.H35 2000 00-028107 658'.049 - dc21 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and ...
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... social units within these must justify themselves by nurturing individuality among their members. Not only must every large context be analyzed into separate elements and specific results, but these specifics must be synthesized and ...
... social units within these must justify themselves by nurturing individuality among their members. Not only must every large context be analyzed into separate elements and specific results, but these specifics must be synthesized and ...
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... social and public benefit. Is there truth to this proposition? Certainly. Do individuals competing with one another in serving customers thereby improve service to those customers? Yes. Is this a truth upon which the “science” of ...
... social and public benefit. Is there truth to this proposition? Certainly. Do individuals competing with one another in serving customers thereby improve service to those customers? Yes. Is this a truth upon which the “science” of ...
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... ( social responsibility , harmonious relations , cooperation ) Diffusion ( holistic , elaborative synthetic , relational ) Ascribed status ( who you are , your potential and connections ) Outer direction ( examples and influences are ...
... ( social responsibility , harmonious relations , cooperation ) Diffusion ( holistic , elaborative synthetic , relational ) Ascribed status ( who you are , your potential and connections ) Outer direction ( examples and influences are ...
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... social ostracism of " rate busters , " high - producing workers . While scientific management is now discredited , “ operations research ” and more ominously " reengineering ” have taken their toll on human rela- tionships in the ...
... social ostracism of " rate busters , " high - producing workers . While scientific management is now discredited , “ operations research ” and more ominously " reengineering ” have taken their toll on human rela- tionships in 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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