Managing Cultures
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Managing Cultural Differences
This new edition of this bestselling text has been completely updated to reflect the numerous global changes that have occurred since 1999: globalization, SARS, AIDS, the handover of Hong Kong, and so forth. Issues of terrorism and state security as they affect culture and business are discussed substantially. Included throughout are several region and country descriptions, as well as demographic data, graphs and maps. Managing Cultural Differences, 6th Edition zeroes in on culture as the crucial dimension and educates the reader about the cultures around the world. Book jacket.
Managing Culture
The management of culture currently dominates the attention of the controllers of both private and public institutions. Culture is believed to provide the key to a commitment to excellence from which will follow success, survival and profit. Some of the extensive literature implies that effective management depends upon cultural management, that nothing else needs to be done. Managing Culture examines these claims and explains why they have been made. It describes some examples of cultural change as a preliminary to the main purpose which is to present some critical questions about the case for cultural management and about the confusions that lie behind it. The book argues that there are likely to be severe practical difficulties about the control and prediction of the outcome of change in the field of culture. It goes on to suggest that there is a real danger of cultural management causing considerable organizational damage when the instigators of change programmes are easily led to believe that the changes have worked when they have not. In these circumstances, the managers of organizational culture may find that their organizations are no longer under their control: there is a divorce between their perception and reality. The book ends positively by asserting the advantages of understanding the culture of organizations in order to have some real hope of influencing, rather than controlling, their development.
Managing Across Cultures
Author: Pat Joynt
language: en
Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Services
Release Date: 1996
This reader brings together international writers to comment on cross-cultural management. It should lay the foundations for research and debate in the field, showing how management thinking has changed and adapted to new cross-cultural issues.
