Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook comprises an innovative companion for cross-cultural management classes, demonstrating how organizations can deal with cultural differences successfully. Providing a constructive and positive lens into the multifaceted world of interculturality, the authors illustrate the multiple benefits associated with cultural diversity in the fast-changing global and digital environment.
Key features include:
- Carefully constructed chapters that match course development
- Practical recommendations drawn from multiple disciplines for managing diversity
- Case studies from numerous cultures to educate students and managers alike in shaping intercultural relationships
- Multiple frameworks for analysis and illustrative literature reviews to provide a substantial and unique overview of intercultural management.
Outlining ways in which to understand and constructively design interculturality, this textbook is a seminal guide for students of bachelors, masters and MBA courses, particularly those focusing on management studies. It also provides useful insights for organizations looking to design and develop intercultural management practices.
Trade Review‘This is a very well organised, tightly focused and clearly presented book which will be of value to intercultural trainers, teachers of languages for special purposes and international managers dealing with cultural differences. The book deserves careful study both for its theoretical analysis and establishment of an intercultural management cultural framework but also for its case studies and examples of successful and unsuccessful intercultural negotiation and management.’ -- Peter McGee, Training, Language and Culture
‘This book not only provides a comprehensive overview of relevant topics of the field of intercultural management, but also provides helpful advice about how to bridge cultural differences.‘ -- Sonja A. Sackmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Table of ContentsContents: 1. What this book is about and why it is worth reading PART I UNDERSTANDING CONSTRUCTIVE INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT 2. Interculturality in a global context 3. Culture(s) and cultural dimensions 4. Models for intercultural analysis 5. Negotiated interculturality PART II EXPERIENCING CONSTRUCTIVE INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT 6. Intercultural leadership 7. Intercultural teams 8. Transfer of management practices 9. Intercultural communication and language PART III DESIGNING CONSTRUCTIVE INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT 10. Intercultural complementarity and synergy 11. Intercultural competence 12. Intercultural organizational development 13. Towards constructive interculturality in organizations References Index
