Managing in a multicultural setting can be very challenging. Culture strongly influences how people behave and how they understand the behavior of others, and cultures vary in the behaviors they find proper and acceptable. This report--which integrates work done by experts in the fields of anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, and international business management with CCL's perspective on how executives learn from experience--describes the cultural values, often unconsciously held, that underlie work in the U.S. and provides managers in the U.S. with a structured way of learning about the...

Organizations today operate in an increasingly complex and changing world. What are the new skills that must emerge if leaders are to successfully meet the challenges created by this turbulence? The author, drawing on his years of experience in studying organizations and on the insights generated at a conference that brought together a select group of senior executives and organizational researchers to consider this question, offers his own unique perspective.

Managing Large Systems examines a wide range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists and engineers, business and technical managers, sponsor organizations and their contractors, business and government offi cials, and line and functional managers.