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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... left and top down . This is the traditional western , individualistic view . " The ascending arc " moves right and bottom up . This is the communitarian view , held by at least half the world's people . Note the essential ambiguity of ...
... left and top down . This is the traditional western , individualistic view . " The ascending arc " moves right and bottom up . This is the communitarian view , held by at least half the world's people . Note the essential ambiguity of ...
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... ( top left of Figure 2.3 ) so that we are provoked into breaking the rule ( bottom right ) . But this tension also helps us learn , hence the helical pattern by which rules get better as more and more particulars are covered by their ...
... ( top left of Figure 2.3 ) so that we are provoked into breaking the rule ( bottom right ) . But this tension also helps us learn , hence the helical pattern by which rules get better as more and more particulars are covered by their ...
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... Right to Copy forgone when Samsung published its own version was less than the trans- lation costs ( Figure 2.6 ) . The line drawn in Figure 2.6 begins with our impulse to sue ( top left ) , moves downward and rightward to affirm our ...
... Right to Copy forgone when Samsung published its own version was less than the trans- lation costs ( Figure 2.6 ) . The line drawn in Figure 2.6 begins with our impulse to sue ( top left ) , moves downward and rightward to affirm our ...
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... top left . The interpersonal commitment orienta- tion ( or Particularism ) is at bottom right , while the Socratic reconciliation is at top right , wherein Hans accepts the penalty of law in order to dissent from that law and sustain ...
... top left . The interpersonal commitment orienta- tion ( or Particularism ) is at bottom right , while the Socratic reconciliation is at top right , wherein Hans accepts the penalty of law in order to dissent from that law and sustain ...
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... ( top left ) . Seed crys- tals drop from the sky in a chaotic pattern , tossed by the streams of colder and warmer , drier and moister air through which they fall . Yet amid all this chaos is a principle of nonlinear order ( or ...
... ( top left ) . Seed crys- tals drop from the sky in a chaotic pattern , tossed by the streams of colder and warmer , drier and moister air through which they fall . Yet amid all this chaos is a principle of nonlinear order ( or ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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