Praise for the first edition: 'This is a scholarly, perceptive, well written and very interesting book that covers wide ground and addresses important aspects of societal and organizational culture in a dynamic and international world where the ability to understand the varieties of culture is crucial.' - Mats Alvesson, Professor of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden

Autorentext

Slawomir Magala is Professor of Cross-cultural Management at the University of Erasmus, the Netherlands.

Klappentext

Cross-Cultural Competence is a skillful textbook built on a passion for diversity, respectful recognition of difference, and manageable interactions, all of which are of interest to managers, consultants, professionals and students.

Zusammenfassung
Cross-Cultural Competence is a skillful textbook built on a passion for diversity, respectful recognition of difference, and manageable interactions, all of which are of interest to managers, consultants, professionals and students.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The Ends, Means and Meanings of the Tower of Babel (Case: Professional Bureaucracy in Action: The BBC) 2. Clashing Civilizations: The Global Connection (Case: Kazakh Immigrants in Poland) 3. Networking Organizations: Organizational Cultures by Design (Case: Cross-Border Nordic Mergers, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Panoptic Control in a Public Company, Austria versus Germany and Germany versus Great Britain) 4. Creative Communication Conclusion