EuroDiversity
A Business Guide to Managing Difference
- 1st Edition - August 20, 2002
- Latest edition
- Editor: George F. Simons
- Language: English
How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union? What are European institutions and enterprises doing to manage it? In 'EuroDiversity,' Dr.… Read more
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Description
Description
How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union? What are European institutions and enterprises doing to manage it? In 'EuroDiversity,' Dr. Simons gathers issue-centered perspectives on how Europe's entwined past, present, and future have made it the most strikingly diverse part of the world and what this means for doing business there. 'EuroDiversity' provides:
* Insights into Europe's cultural challenges of globalization, diversity dilemmas, and opportunities
* Case studies, best practices, and resources for finding the common ground and developing the competence needed to succeed
'EuroDiversity' addresses how cultural diversity affects the business climate of the growing European Union and describes what European institutions and successful organizations are doing to manage it. The book's multinational team of authors gives us issue-centered perspectives on how Europe's entwined past, present and future have made it the most strikingly diverse part of the world and what this means for doing business there. They address Europe's cultural challenges of globalization and provide abundant insights into diversity dilemmas and opportunities. They point to the best practices and resources that will assist both European enterprises and those actively present in or trading with Europe to find the cultural common ground and competence they need to succeed.
Contributors: Arjen Bos, Marie-Thérèse Claes, Ph.D., Elena A. A. Garcea, Ph.D., Nigel Holden, Ph.D., Michael Stuber
* Insights into Europe's cultural challenges of globalization, diversity dilemmas, and opportunities
* Case studies, best practices, and resources for finding the common ground and developing the competence needed to succeed
'EuroDiversity' addresses how cultural diversity affects the business climate of the growing European Union and describes what European institutions and successful organizations are doing to manage it. The book's multinational team of authors gives us issue-centered perspectives on how Europe's entwined past, present and future have made it the most strikingly diverse part of the world and what this means for doing business there. They address Europe's cultural challenges of globalization and provide abundant insights into diversity dilemmas and opportunities. They point to the best practices and resources that will assist both European enterprises and those actively present in or trading with Europe to find the cultural common ground and competence they need to succeed.
Contributors: Arjen Bos, Marie-Thérèse Claes, Ph.D., Elena A. A. Garcea, Ph.D., Nigel Holden, Ph.D., Michael Stuber
Key features
Key features
Diversity in Europe is not the same as diversity in North America. Here is a book that not only makes clear why imported diversity models often fail in Europe, but also identifies true European diversity issues and what to do about them.This is a book about the world's most culturally diverse area that explores how businesses must manage differences here to be successful in the global marketplace.The book's multinational team of authors show us concrete cases of big corporations handling diversity successfully.
Readership
Readership
International Business Students; International Management Professionals
Table of contents
Table of contents
Foreword; Series Preface; Prologue and Acknowledgements; 1: Patchwork: the diversities of Europeans & their business impact; 2: The legacy of the past: How national and regional differences continue to affect trade, cooperation, politics and relationships; 3: Current cultural crises, fears, fantasies & foreseeable futures; 4: Making Diversity Pay: Creating marketable value added from difference; 5: Europe on-line: the "new" economy & virtual collaboration from a cultural perspective; 6: Corporate best practice: What some European organizations are doing well to manage culture & diversity; 7: The cross-cultural transfer of best practices: learning from European and American experiences of knowledge management; 8: A change of Corporate Identity: Ethics, Integrity & Sustainability in a continent with many faces; 9: Equal Opportunities for women and men in the European Union: The case of E-Quality in Belgium; 10: Who is the European? Prognosis & recommendations; References & Resources; Appendices: 1. Seminal EU documents on diversity, 2. EuroDiversity Glossary, 3. Council of Europe
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 16, 2002
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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George F. Simons
George F. Simons, Ph.D., D.Min, MA, is an American who works from France and does consulting on e-Learning and global teamwork. He is a faculty member of Management Centre Europe and serves on the editorial advisory board of the European Business Review. Dr. Simons is the creator the primary developer of the award-winning DIVERSOPHY® series of training instruments. He is now developing software for self-directed individual and small group learning with this tool.
Affiliations and expertise
George F. Simons, D.Min., is president of George Simons International, a virtual consulting group specializing in intercultural communication and global management.