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The whole is harmony, not discord. Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors' extensive experience in international business, this book compares the cultural values of more than forty nations. With humour, cartoons, and an array of business examples, the authors demonstrate how cross-cultural competence and the reconciliation of cultural differences can cause whole organizations to grow healthier, wealthier and wiser.
Contents:
Introduction
Universalism-Particularism: The Dilemma
Reconciling Universalism and Particularism: Stories and Cases
Individualism-Communitarianism: The Dilemma
Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism: Stories and Cases
Specificity-Diffuseness: The Dilemma
Reconciling Specificity and Diffuseness: Stories and Cases
Achieved-Ascribed Status: The Dilemma
Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status: Stories and Cases
Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma
Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases
Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma
Reconciling Sequential and Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases
Appendix 1 - Dilemma Theory and Its Origins
Appendix 2 - Exercises in Reconciliation
Appendix 3 - Measuring Transcultural Competence: Old and New
Questionnaries
Appendix 4 - The Space Between Dimensions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index.
Brief Description:
This volume explores the notion that foreign cultures are not arbitrarily or randomly different from each other; rather they are mirror images of each other's values, reversals of an order and sequence of looking and learning.
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