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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... five years ago , has been unaccountably pardoned by up - state politi- cians . He is arriving by the noon train in Hadleyville . He has sworn to kill both marshal and judge . The immediate reaction of the wedding party is that Will and ...
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... five minutes for a Ford from Avis . Case 2 : Revson's Revenge Charles Revson , head of Revlon Corporation , insisted that everyone sign the time of his or her arrival in the office in a book kept in Reception . A new receptionist was at ...
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... five years testifies to the importance of the cultural message conveyed . " In this organization the leaders live by the rules they have made , and employees using these rules are vindicated and supported . " These kinds of corporate ...
... five years testifies to the importance of the cultural message conveyed . " In this organization the leaders live by the rules they have made , and employees using these rules are vindicated and supported . " These kinds of corporate ...
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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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