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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... .. The universalist culture accepts and serves all comers equally, whether they want citizenship or hamburgers. The sheer variety of ethnic groups coming to America and living prosperously, for the most part, the dilemma 17.
... .. The universalist culture accepts and serves all comers equally, whether they want citizenship or hamburgers. The sheer variety of ethnic groups coming to America and living prosperously, for the most part, the dilemma 17.
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... living prosperously, for the most part, under the rule of law, is without precedent in the world. None of this could work unless the citizens themselves could choose their lawmakers. A universalist society counts every vote, even if it ...
... living prosperously, for the most part, under the rule of law, is without precedent in the world. None of this could work unless the citizens themselves could choose their lawmakers. A universalist society counts every vote, even if it ...
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... Living systems, although governed by biological laws, have the aspect of growth, flowering wildness, chaos, and vitality. Shinto, a Japanese religion based in nature, takes inspiration from the tumultuous, the blooming, and the flowing ...
... Living systems, although governed by biological laws, have the aspect of growth, flowering wildness, chaos, and vitality. Shinto, a Japanese religion based in nature, takes inspiration from the tumultuous, the blooming, and the flowing ...
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... is important not to polarize freedom with lawfulness. The lawful growth and development of living organisms shows a freedom within the process of development. No flower, no animal, no human being. stories and cases 41.
... is important not to polarize freedom with lawfulness. The lawful growth and development of living organisms shows a freedom within the process of development. No flower, no animal, no human being. stories and cases 41.
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... living standards and hence the first to want to buy consumer products. During this time, the United States led other economies by so wide a margin that it was emulated worldwide. Although knowledge originates with the international ...
... living standards and hence the first to want to buy consumer products. During this time, the United States led other economies by so wide a margin that it was emulated worldwide. Although knowledge originates with the international ...
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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