Cross-Cultural Management
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| ISBN13: | 9781506387529 |
| ISBN10: | 1506387527 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 336 pages |
| Size: | 231x187 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 570 |
This Fourth Edition has a clear focus on the interactions of people from different cultures in organizational settings, helping readers to gain an understanding of the effect of culture across a variety of contexts.
Cross-Cultural Management: Essential Concepts introduces readers to the fundamentals of cross-cultural management by exploring the influence of culture on interpersonal interactions in organizational settings and examining the ever-increasing number of cross-cultural challenges that global managers face in today’s workplace.
The Fourth Edition reflects the most current thinking on the topic and includes a series of new features including:
- Enhanced coverage of language issues, offering strategies for improving communication in multinational companies (Ch.6)
- New discussions about the relationship between immigration and international management (Ch. 11)
- Increased emphasis on understanding the mechanisms of cross-cultural interactions
- Best practices for transferring knowledge across cultures (Ch.9)
- Expanded coverage of cross-generational considerations (Ch.11)
- New and updated examples, statistics, discussion questions and references.
The book is complemented by a companion website featuring a range of tools and resources for lecturers, including chapter-specific PowerPoint slides, and a Microsoft Word test bank containing multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions for each chapter.
Suitable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking Change Management courses.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Challenging Role of the Global Manager
Chapter 2: Describing Culture: What It Is and Where It Comes From
Chapter 3: Comparing Cultures: Systematically Describing Cultural Differences
Chapter 4: How Culture Works: Fundamentals of Cross
-Cultural Interaction
PART II: ROLES OF THE GLOBAL MANAGER
Chapter 5: The Manager as Decision Maker: Cross
-Cultural Dimensions of Decision
-Making
Chapter 6: The Manager as Negotiator: Communicating and Negotiating Across Cultures
Chapter 7: The Manager as Leader: Motivation and Leadership across Cultures
PART III: GLOBAL MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Chapter 8: The Challenge of Multicultural Work Groups and Teams
Chapter 9: The Challenge of International Organizations: Structure and Culture
Chapter 10: The Challenge of International Assignments
Chapter 11: The Challenge of Managing Across Cultures in the Future
References
Name Index
Subject Index
