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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... Diffuseness : Stories and Cases 159 7 Achieved - Ascribed Status : The Dilemma 189 8 Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status : Stories and Cases 209 9 Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma 234 10 vii Contents.
... Diffuseness : Stories and Cases 159 7 Achieved - Ascribed Status : The Dilemma 189 8 Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status : Stories and Cases 209 9 Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma 234 10 vii Contents.
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... versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma 234 10 Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases 267 11 Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix ...
... versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma 234 10 Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases 267 11 Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma 295 12 Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases 320 Appendix ...
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... . If people do not identify them- selves by these labels , how are we to discern. Corporate Stories Reveal the Culture Figure 2.5 Four Corporate Stories Figure 2.7 Universalism Versus Particularism. sTORIEs AnD CAsEs 43.
... . If people do not identify them- selves by these labels , how are we to discern. Corporate Stories Reveal the Culture Figure 2.5 Four Corporate Stories Figure 2.7 Universalism Versus Particularism. sTORIEs AnD CAsEs 43.
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... FIRE एछ WATSON'S BADGE THE INDIGNANT CLIENT REVSON'S REVENGE PARTICULAR DISCRETION " I'll take that one , " and he pointed. Figure 2.5 Four Corporate Stories Figure 2.7 Universalism Versus Particularism. 44 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
... FIRE एछ WATSON'S BADGE THE INDIGNANT CLIENT REVSON'S REVENGE PARTICULAR DISCRETION " I'll take that one , " and he pointed. Figure 2.5 Four Corporate Stories Figure 2.7 Universalism Versus Particularism. 44 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
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... versus personal and par- ticular discretion in exceptional circumstances . In Refinery Fire , the rules are so strict that you cannot investigate an accident , in a case of clear emer- gency , even when you are representing the managing ...
... versus personal and par- ticular discretion in exceptional circumstances . In Refinery Fire , the rules are so strict that you cannot investigate an accident , in a case of clear emer- gency , even when you are representing the managing ...
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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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