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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... “looking-glass land.” Cultures have always been reflections of the world mirrored in the eyes of members. Who is to say where we should look first, or in which direction our eyes should scan? Neither direction 1 Introduction.
... “looking-glass land.” Cultures have always been reflections of the world mirrored in the eyes of members. Who is to say where we should look first, or in which direction our eyes should scan? Neither direction 1 Introduction.
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... first. This order is reversed in Sino-Japanese cultures, perhaps be- cause the family is considered prior to the person. When giving a taxi dri- ver your address in Tokyo or Beijing, the town or district comes first, then the street ...
... first. This order is reversed in Sino-Japanese cultures, perhaps be- cause the family is considered prior to the person. When giving a taxi dri- ver your address in Tokyo or Beijing, the town or district comes first, then the street ...
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... first value leads to the second, then the second value leads back to the first. Different cultures. Figure 1 Culture as a Mirror Image Figure 1.2 The Car and the Pedestrian. InTRODuCTIOn 3.
... first value leads to the second, then the second value leads back to the first. Different cultures. Figure 1 Culture as a Mirror Image Figure 1.2 The Car and the Pedestrian. InTRODuCTIOn 3.
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... first. Different cultures value different arcs of the same circle, celebrating the movement from A to Z or, in other ... first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas. Which came first—the universal ...
... first. Different cultures value different arcs of the same circle, celebrating the movement from A to Z or, in other ... first? All six value dimensions investigated in this book represent similar dilemmas. Which came first—the universal ...
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... first - rate intelligence is the abil- ity to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time , and still retain the ability to function . " We paraphrase the remainder of this quotation : " You must , for example , be able to see ...
... first - rate intelligence is the abil- ity to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time , and still retain the ability to function . " We paraphrase the remainder of this quotation : " You must , for example , be able to see ...
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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