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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... Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix 1 Dilemma Theory and Its Origins 345 Appendix 2 Exercises in Reconciliation 349 Appendix 3 Measuring Transcultural ...
... Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix 1 Dilemma Theory and Its Origins 345 Appendix 2 Exercises in Reconciliation 349 Appendix 3 Measuring Transcultural ...
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... synchronous, key conjunctions of events, expertly timed? The Ubiquity of Dilemma We all know the old dilemma of the chicken and the egg. Which came first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas ...
... synchronous, key conjunctions of events, expertly timed? The Ubiquity of Dilemma We all know the old dilemma of the chicken and the egg. Which came first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas ...
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... elaborative synthetic, relational) Ascribed status (who you are, your potential and connections) Outer direction (examples and influences are located outside) Synchronous time (time is a dance of fine coordinations) introduction 11.
... elaborative synthetic, relational) Ascribed status (who you are, your potential and connections) Outer direction (examples and influences are located outside) Synchronous time (time is a dance of fine coordinations) introduction 11.
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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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