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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... direction ( conscience and convictions are located inside ) 6. Sequential time ( time is a race along a set course ) Particularism ( exceptions , special circumstances , unique relations ) Communitarianism ( social responsibility ...
... direction ( conscience and convictions are located inside ) 6. Sequential time ( time is a race along a set course ) Particularism ( exceptions , special circumstances , unique relations ) Communitarianism ( social responsibility ...
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... new bride , who abhors vio- lence . ... DO NOT FORSAKE ME , OH MY DARLING ... CONSUMMATING HIS MARRIAGE ( PARTICULARISM ) Figure 2.1 High Noon The resolution is depicted by the direction of the arrow. 36 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
... new bride , who abhors vio- lence . ... DO NOT FORSAKE ME , OH MY DARLING ... CONSUMMATING HIS MARRIAGE ( PARTICULARISM ) Figure 2.1 High Noon The resolution is depicted by the direction of the arrow. 36 - PARTICULARISM UNIVERSALISM —
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... direction of the arrow in the diagram. The marshall first upholds his duty, which then allows him to resume his interrupted love life. The second value is realized through the first. The dilemma is resolved when Will and Amy succeed in ...
... direction of the arrow in the diagram. The marshall first upholds his duty, which then allows him to resume his interrupted love life. The second value is realized through the first. The dilemma is resolved when Will and Amy succeed in ...
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... direction of the arrow . The “ lying bishop " reasons that Jean Valjean will understand the universal law of God only if he is first shown a particular act of love and kindness . Send- ing him back to lifetime imprisonment under a law ...
... direction of the arrow . The “ lying bishop " reasons that Jean Valjean will understand the universal law of God only if he is first shown a particular act of love and kindness . Send- ing him back to lifetime imprisonment under a law ...
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... directions . It is a net with multiple nodes — authority follows upon knowledge and expertise . Business Strategies of Universal and Particular Appeal It was Michael Porter who distinguished between two archetypal and generic ( one - of ...
... directions . It is a net with multiple nodes — authority follows upon knowledge and expertise . Business Strategies of Universal and Particular Appeal It was Michael Porter who distinguished between two archetypal and generic ( one - of ...
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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