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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... first at the stories cultures tell that idealize their favorite values but typically include the contrasting value as well . Hence an American story will put Universalism first , but a French story may put Particularism first . We then ...
... first at the stories cultures tell that idealize their favorite values but typically include the contrasting value as well . Hence an American story will put Universalism first , but a French story may put Particularism first . We then ...
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... first . Such stories have an almost mythic and archetypal structure within the culture . One story was told by the American director Fred Zinnemann in High Noon . Here , the town's marshal must place his sworn legal duty before his ...
... first . Such stories have an almost mythic and archetypal structure within the culture . One story was told by the American director Fred Zinnemann in High Noon . Here , the town's marshal must place his sworn legal duty before his ...
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... first man to flee is the town judge. At Indian Falls last year the townspeople offered up their law enforcement officials to gunmen. He is not exposing himself to that. Will then contacts his deputy marshal, but the young man has a ...
... first man to flee is the town judge. At Indian Falls last year the townspeople offered up their law enforcement officials to gunmen. He is not exposing himself to that. Will then contacts his deputy marshal, but the young man has a ...
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... 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 killing all four villains and Will returns to Amy's ...
... 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 killing all four villains and Will returns to Amy's ...
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... first shown a particular act of love and kindness . Send- ing him back to lifetime imprisonment under a law that has already em- bittered him would crush his spirit . The danger ( shown at the bottom right of the diagram ) is that the ...
... first shown a particular act of love and kindness . Send- ing him back to lifetime imprisonment under a law that has already em- bittered him would crush his spirit . The danger ( shown at the bottom right of the diagram ) is that the ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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