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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... workers propor- tionately than those found in the white population. Because so many of these immigrants run their own companies, or cluster near the top, there are few barriers to upward mobility for Chinese and Indian employees. In a ...
... workers propor- tionately than those found in the white population. Because so many of these immigrants run their own companies, or cluster near the top, there are few barriers to upward mobility for Chinese and Indian employees. In a ...
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... workers who are reconciled with one another can rec- oncile the supply processes, to distribute reconciled products and services. It is routine for manufacturing departments to wish to churn out quanti- ties of product that sales cannot ...
... workers who are reconciled with one another can rec- oncile the supply processes, to distribute reconciled products and services. It is routine for manufacturing departments to wish to churn out quanti- ties of product that sales cannot ...
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... workers , much to his shareholders ' anger , he put the Model T within reach of his own workers . America is the home of the valuable , cheap commodity , with so many competitors that the laws of neoclassical economics actually work and ...
... workers , much to his shareholders ' anger , he put the Model T within reach of his own workers . America is the home of the valuable , cheap commodity , with so many competitors that the laws of neoclassical economics actually work and ...
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... workers to make them substantially more productive . They were to perform a carefully specified number of simple hand motions and when these reached the standard set for them , incremental piecework incentives were to be paid . Taylor ...
... workers to make them substantially more productive . They were to perform a carefully specified number of simple hand motions and when these reached the standard set for them , incremental piecework incentives were to be paid . Taylor ...
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... workers in his factory from over 100 percent to single figures by making it a desirable place to work and helping them to buy cars from their wages. Of course, the shareholders were furious, but Ford stood up to them. He told them ...
... workers in his factory from over 100 percent to single figures by making it a desirable place to work and helping them to buy cars from their wages. Of course, the shareholders were furious, but Ford stood up to them. He told them ...
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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