Organizational Science Abroad: Constraints and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781489909145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 340 str.

C. a. B. Yg Osigweh

Opis

Organizing consists of making other people work. We do this by manip- ulating symbols: words, exhortations, memos, charts, signs of status. We expect these symbols to have the desired effects on the people con- cerned. The success of our organizing activities depends on whether the others do attach to our symbols the meanings we expect them to. Whether or not they do so is a function of what I have sometimes called "the programs in their minds" -their learned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting-in short, a function of their culture. The assumption that organizations could be culture-free is naive and myopic; it is based on a misunderstanding of the very act of organizing. Certainly, few people who have ever worked abroad will make this assumption. The dependence of organizations on their people's mental pro- grams does not mean, of course, that we do not find many similarities across organizations. Some characteristics of human mental program- ming are universal; others are shared by most people in a continent, a country, a region, an industry, a scientific discipline, or even a gender.

Spis treści

I. Introduction.- 1. The Myth of Universality in Transnational Organizational Science.- 2. From the Atlantic to the Pacific Century: Cross-Cultural Management Reviewed.- II. Insights and Perspectives from Europe.- 3. Applying American Organizational Sciences in Europe and the United Kingdom: The Problems.- 4. The Failure of Management Techniques in Central Planning Economies.- 5. Union-Management Participation in Corporate Decision-Making: A Comparative Analysis of Codetermination in West Germany and the United States.- 6. Convergence or Divergence of Strategic Decision Processes among 10 Nations.- III. Insights and Perspectives from Asia.- 7. The Diffusion of American Organizational Theory in Postwar Japan.- 8. Rational Man Theory in American and Japanese Performance Control.- 9. Chinese Enterprise Management.- 10. A Comparison of Enterprise Management in Japan and the People’s Republic of China.- IV. Other Specific Insights and Perspectives.- 11. Contradictions between Brazilian and U.S. Organizations: Implications for Organizational Theory.- 12. The Influence of Societal Culture on Corporate Culture, Business Strategy, and Performance in the International Airline Industry.- V. Conclusion.- 13. Organizational Effectiveness and Its Attainment: A Cultural Perspective.- 14. Organizational Science in a Global Environment: Future Directions.- About the Authors.