Summary with the 3rd edition of Cross-Cultural Management: Essential concepts by Thomas and Peterson
Summary with the 3rd edition of Cross-Cultural Management: Essential concepts by Thomas and Peterson
Summary with the 3rd edition of Cross-Cultural Management: Essential concepts by Thomas and Peterson
BulletPoint summary with the 3rd edition of Cross-Cultural Management: Essential concepts by Thomas and Peterson
It is not so much a managerial functional activity or specialized field (finance, HRM, logistics, marketing...).Within these functions, increased cross-border variety redefines existing managerial activities and introduces new managerial issues. For instance:Who will be in charge of subsidiary X in country Y?Where do we build a new factory?How to manage multicultural teams (costs/benefits)?How do I handle my boss who comes from another country?Developing global managers: cultural skills and competences or even cultural intelligence?Where do you find cross-cultural interactions in the managerial world? Where takes the encounter place?Manager – manager / employee - employeeManager – employeeBoard member - managerShareholder – board memberClient – employeeManager – consultantsExpat family – local living conditionsImpats – ....Over time the relevance/likelyhood of these encounters changes.A variety of options with different problems, dynamics and consequences.History of “culture” concept:Long history in philosophy and social sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics).Basic issue: distinction between nature and society.Culture is ... that which distinguishes men from animals ...’( Ostwald 1907)....
While human nature is biologically innate and universal, culture is learned and may vary from one society to another’ ... (Inglehart 1990).The more people start crossing borders, the more they are confronted with cultural differences between...
This is the text of a lecture Renan gave in 1882 in Leiden, The Netherlands. It was a time when the nation state was developing quickly which finally led to World War I. It is not an easy text, but it is famous ever since. And for good reasons. Most importantly, Renan discusses some essential ideas people had and (still) have related to the genesis and nature of `nations’. More in particular, Renan is rather specific on the limits of teleological and deterministic views on nation building processes. His arguments leads him to conclusions with far reaching consequences (and predictions).(He foresaw the establishment of the European Union!).In the Cross-Cultural Management course, we mainly focused on cultural differences. These cultural differences, however, are often related directly to differences between nations. Think for instance about dimensions of Hofstede and the GLOBE project which ascribe cultural characteristics to national identities.To guide you through the complexities and many details, we formulate three questions about the text of Renan. The questions are given below. You can try to answer these when you are reading the text, so before the examination. One or two of these questions will be used in the examination. So discuss with your friends and remember your answers well! If Renan was confronted with the 6 cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede, how do you think he would respond? Would he see these dimensions as an important building block for nation building processes? Or would he be skeptical about their validity? Why do you think this is the case? According to Renan, what is a nation? And...
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