International management : cross-cultural dimensions

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International management : cross-cultural dimensions

Richard Mead

Blackwell, 1994

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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International management : cross cultural dimensions

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Bibliography: p. [487]-514

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents
Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780631183686

Description

"Managing Across Cultures" provides an introduction to cross-cultural management and organization behaviour issues, showing how cultural factors affect management situations. The book covers the key areas of culture stereotypes; management power and style; decision-making structures; planning motivation and conflict; and cross-cultural management communication. Mead demonstrates the practical applications of theoretical issues and draws on data from international sources - in particular from the US, the UK and Southeast Asia - to help managers and students gain a better understanding of cross-cultural management.

Table of Contents

  • Cross-cultural management
  • doing your own analysis
  • collecting data about the other culture
  • comparing cultures
  • culture and management
  • structures for making decisions
  • informal structures
  • organizational culture
  • motivating across cultures
  • change and responding to cultural innovation
  • communicating with individuals
  • planning across cultures
  • cross-cultural synergy and conflict
  • negotiations
  • marketing policies and culture
  • ethical considerations across cultures
  • communicating between organizations
  • family companies
  • the multinational corporation
  • international joint ventures
  • technology transfer and development
  • implementing information technology
  • international project management
  • cross-cultural staffing policies
  • training for cross-cultural assignments.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780631183693

Description

"Managing Across Cultures" provides a comprehensive introduction to cross-cultural management and organization behaviour issues, showing how cultural factors affect management situations. The book covers the key areas of: culture stereotypes; management power and style; decision making structures; planning motivation and conflict; and cross-cultural management communication. Mead demonstrates the practical applications of theoretical issues and draws on data from international sources, in particular from the US, the UK and Southeast Asia, to help managers and students gain a better understanding of cross-cultural management.

Table of Contents

  • Cross-cultural management
  • doing your own analysis
  • collecting data about the other culture
  • comparing cultures
  • culture and management
  • structures for making decisions
  • informal structures
  • organizational culture
  • motivating across cultures
  • change, and responding to cultural innovation
  • communicating with individuals
  • planning across cultures
  • cross-cultural synergy and conflict
  • negotiations
  • marketing policies and culture
  • ethical considerations across cultures
  • communicating between organizations
  • family companies
  • the multinational corporation
  • international joint ventures
  • technology transfer and development
  • implementing information technology
  • international project management
  • cross-cultural staffing policies
  • training for cross-cultural assignments.

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