Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance
Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance

Author: Yomi Babatunde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 9812873627

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This book explores China’s global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction industries in China and Nigeria. This provides better understanding of the linkages between TQM, based on the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 9000 quality management systems (QMS), and national culture, based on Emeritus Professor Geert Hofstede’s national cultural dimensions. Premised on the culture-specificity and bi-directionality relationships between TQM and national culture, this book investigates the construction industries in China and Nigeria including their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) as well as an appraisal of their historical and emerging relationships. In its conceptual approach, this book presents different models in the lead up to its primary theoretical contribution of a quality management assessment model (QMAM) that was adopted during the study’s field work. The book also presents relevant lessons relating to cross cultural management and quality performance not only to the Nigerians but also other foreign players in Nigeria’s construction industry.

Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce
Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce

Author: Sharma, Naman

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 152254934X

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Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversification in business. By utilizing focused inclusion policies and practices, businesses can guide work environments and create an optimal business culture. Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce is a critical scholarly resource that examines the emerging work culture to understand the underlying human processes prevalent in modern organizations. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as gender diversity, workforce trends, and inclusion management, this book is geared towards business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on diversity management.

Cross-cultural Management Revisited
Cross-cultural Management Revisited

Author: Philippe d' Iribarne

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0198857470

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Drawing on thirty years of empirical research, this book reveals the diversity of managerial practices that may be observed throughout the world and provides methodological guidelines to enable researchers and practitioners to engage in an alternative approach to cross-cultural management.

Cross-Cultural Management
Cross-Cultural Management

Author: David C. Thomas

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2021-01-20

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1071800183

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Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts. Rather than focusing on specific countries, authors David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson highlight the interactions of people from different cultures in organizational settings to provide students with practical applications of concepts in international management. Real-world examples and case studies help students understand and integrate differences between attitudes, values, beliefs, and assumptions so that they can thrive as managers.

International Business Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management
International Business Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management

Author: Richter, Nicole F.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1839108630

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This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides readers with an advanced and applied approach to traditional international business that integrates key cross-cultural management topics. Its ten chapters give profound insights into analysing, selecting and entering international markets, strategic partnerships, strategic positioning, global value chains, organizational designs, intercultural interaction, leadership and motivation and international human resources management. For each of these topics, advanced and contemporary theoretical and analytical frameworks are discussed and translated into toolsets that will assist readers in solving practical challenges.

Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context

Author: Zeynep Aycan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 1446297934

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*Winner in the Management and Leadership Textbook Category at CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2015* An ideal course text for Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management or Cross-Cultural Management courses. Chapters present the fundamental theoretical approaches in all key areas including leadership, ethics and change, and then explore them in the context of culture and cross-cultural management. Encourages self-reflection and critical appraisal through a series of questions and scenarios designed to get you thinking like a manager working with an international team. Provides practical guidance on tackling the most complex issues facing managers today. Contains insights into the experiences of real employees working in a multicultural environment. The companion website provides a wealth of additional material to support students and teachers alike.

International Manufacturing Strategies
International Manufacturing Strategies

Author: Per Lindberg

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 147572795X

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Over the last twenty years, there has been an increasing number of factors that have placed the manufacturing strategies of companies and countries in a global context. This book reviews and addresses the global manufacturing strategy area through research in the four major economic areas of the world: Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. International Manufacturing Strategies: Context, Content and Change is the result of a single major research project undertaken in twenty countries, focusing on the manufacturing strategies and practices in each, and uses research data to focus on factors specific to industrial countries or regions and those which are common across the group of countries or the entire sample The core of this book is a set of chapters reviewing individual countries. Each country is reviewed in a format with an overall common approach: the socio-economic background; the distinctive results for that country from the research and the link between the two. Most will be illustrated by a small case study of a company. Following this is an integrating review of the findings from various countries, the different trajectories followed, and the impact on external variables and the socioeconomic context on those. The final part of the book is devoted to new ideas and developments in functional areas and in manufacturing strategy that have been developed from the analysis conducted during the research.

Cross-cultural Management
Cross-cultural Management

Author: Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 8120340094

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And, as multinational corporations (MNCs) and Transnational Corporations (TNCs) spread their wings across nations with numerous employees of different nationalities, with their different cultures, different mores and different behaviours, organizations have to reconcile these differences and have to forge a unified organizational culture to achieve their mission, vision and objectives. This book eminently suits as a text to address these goals. Divided into 14 chapters, this comprehensive and well-organized text discusses in detail the many cultural issues facing organizations. Professor Bhattacharyya, with his expertise and wealth of experience, provides a masterly analysis of the subject, harmoniously blending the theory and practice of cross-cultural management, making it a unified whole. Not only does the text give a thorough understanding of culture, showing that it is an amalgam of shared values and behaviours of groups as well as a phenomenon applicable to individuals, it also delineates the many facets of corporate culture. The text discusses the entire gamut of organizational culture, cultural differences, diversity management, cross-cultural management, globalization, impact of culture on globalization, and the impact of technology and culture on organization. In addition, it focuses on cross-cultural communication, cultural issues in mergers and acquisitions, resource management, cross-cultural decision making, and ways and means of managing cross-cultural teams.

International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies
International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies

Author: G. Jack

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0230248446

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Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current resonances with the vicissitudes of the so called 'colonial project'. The book explores alternative approaches to the question of the 'other' in late global capitalism.