Managing Cultural Differences
leadership strategies for a new world of business
- 5th Edition - June 28, 2000
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Authors: Philip R. Harris, Robert T. Moran
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 7 4 0 8 - 0
Make no mistake. Here is the original, best-selling guide to developing cross-cultural skills, now revised for the new millenium. With more than 100,000 copies in print and adopted… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMake no mistake. Here is the original, best-selling guide to developing cross-cultural skills, now revised for the new millenium. With more than 100,000 copies in print and adopted by more than 200 Universities worldwide, this classic is praised as a 'bible of multiculturalism' (New York Times News Service)
It clearly shows how to develop the cross-cultural expertise essential to succeed in a world of rapid and profound economic, political, and cultural changes. While retaining the wisdom of the previous editions, this new edition provides leading-edge insights into work culture and globalization. In addition to a new chapter on 'Women in Global Business', this fifth edition describes effective cross-cultural strategies and policies that will help you:
* capitalize on expanding international markets
* improve cross-cultural business communication
* master the subtle important art of business protocol
* create a successful multicultural management program
Easy-to-read mini case histories, illustrations, exhibits, and country profiles supply guidelines to improve leadership skills for globalization, communications, negotiations and strategic alliances, cultural changes, cultural synergy, and diversity in the workplace.
Managing Cultural Differences continues to be the premier source of information on the dynamics of culture and business.
It clearly shows how to develop the cross-cultural expertise essential to succeed in a world of rapid and profound economic, political, and cultural changes. While retaining the wisdom of the previous editions, this new edition provides leading-edge insights into work culture and globalization. In addition to a new chapter on 'Women in Global Business', this fifth edition describes effective cross-cultural strategies and policies that will help you:
* capitalize on expanding international markets
* improve cross-cultural business communication
* master the subtle important art of business protocol
* create a successful multicultural management program
Easy-to-read mini case histories, illustrations, exhibits, and country profiles supply guidelines to improve leadership skills for globalization, communications, negotiations and strategic alliances, cultural changes, cultural synergy, and diversity in the workplace.
Managing Cultural Differences continues to be the premier source of information on the dynamics of culture and business.
Business Professionals/Managers.
Professors and trainers.
Professors and trainers.
Foreword (JT Battenberg III); Cultural impacts on global management - Global leaders and culture; Global leaders and communications; Global leadership in negotiations and alliances; Leadership in cultural change; Leadership in cultural synergy; Cultural impacts on global business - Managing transitions and relocations; Managing diversity in the global work culture; Women in global business; Effective performance in the global marketplace; Cultural specifics in six world regions - Doing business with North Americans; Doing business with Latin Americans; Doing business with Asians; Doing business with Europeans; Doing business with Middle Easterners; Doing business with Africans.
- Edition: 5
- Published: June 28, 2000
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080574080
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Philip R. Harris
Dr. Philip R. Harris is President of Harris International, Ltd. in LaJolla, California. He is Series Editor of the Managing Cultural Differences Series and co-author of B-H books Managing Cultural Differences, Multicultural Management 2000, and Transcultural Leadership. He is on the advisory board of the European Business Review.
Affiliations and expertise
President of Harris International, Ltd., LaJolla, California, USARM
Robert T. Moran
Robert Moran, Ph.D., is a Professor of Global Management, Emeritus at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Robert Moran, Ph.D., is a Professor of Global Management, Emeritus at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, USA.