Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business, Second Edition
- 4h 47m
- Charles Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- 1997
This is a major new edition of the definitive text on cultural diversity in business, fully updated and expanded with three important new chapters and a distinguished co-author. This perennial bestseller’s global database now includes over 30,000 people and the real-world feedback gained from more than 1,000 cross-cultural training programmes.
Riding the Waves of Culture dispels the idea that there is only one way to manage and encourages us to understand our own culture in the workplace before managing or doing business with other national cultures. The authors reveal the seven key dimensions of business behaviour and how these combine to create four basic ‘types’ of corporate culture: the Family (e.g. Japan, Spain, Belgium); the Eiffel Tower (e.g. large French and German companies); the Guided Missile (e.g. US, UK), and the Incubator (e.g. start-up companies in Silicon Valley).
About the Authors
Fons Trompenaars is the “new star of the world’s management seminar circuit” (Financial Times). He is the head of the Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Intercultural Management Group, affiliate of the international KPMG network, and the leading consultancy and training organization for international management. The company is based is the Netherlands, with Licensees in the USA, UK, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, and South Africa. In 1991 he was awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the ASTD.
Charles Hampden-Turner is a leading management consultant with a DBA from Harvard and has authored 14 books, including Maps of the Mind. He is a past winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award and is currently based at the University of Cambridge Judge Institute of Management Studies. He is also the author, with Fons Trompenaars, of The Seven Cultures of Capitalism and Mastering the Infinite Game.
In this Book
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Riding The Waves Of Culture—Understanding Cultural Diversity In Business, Second Edition
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An Introduction To Culture
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The One Best Way Of Organising Does Not Exist
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The Meaning Of Culture
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Relationships and Rules
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Chapter 5: The Group and The Individual
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Feelings and Relationships
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How Far We Get Involved
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How We Accord Status
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Chapter 9: How We Manage Time
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How We Relate To Nature
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National Cultures and Corporate Culture
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Towards International and Transnational Management
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Reconciling Cultural Dilemmas
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South Africa: The Rainbow Nation
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Gender, Ethnicity and Functional Diversity
