Cross-cultural competence is a skill that has become increasingly essential for the managers in multinational companies. For other business people, this kind of competence may spell the difference between surviving and perishing in the new global economy. This book focuses on the dilemmas of these managers and offers constructive advice on dealing with culture shock and turning it to business advantage. Opposing values can be understood as complementary and reconcilable, say Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars. A manager who concentrates on integrating rather than polarizing values...

Managing People Across Cultures maps out the value of people issues in the organizations of today. It challenges us to ask key questions such as ?How did Human Resource Management (HRM) come to be and what genuine need is there for it and ?What should the future direction of HRM be Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner spell out their vision for what HRM must do to stay relevant to businesses today. Their view is that people management must embrace the values of entrepreneurship i.e. agility, flexibility and innovation to ensure its continued effectiveness. The authors also argue that...

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. Though the idea may be frightening at first, once grasped everything the foreign culture says and does falls easily into place in the trans-cultural world. It is simply a different way of coping with life, a different set of responses to the same underlying dilemmas. They author argues that these dilemmas have been reconciled by both story-telling and business cases...