[PDF] Bridging Cultural Barriers For Corporate Success eBook

Author : Peter M. Haller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030171302

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This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As such, it helps readers identify potential and real conflicts, and to take appropriate action so as to build successful relationships. The book draws on the authors’ combined experience from international line management and international projects, as well as teaching seminars and coaching clientele from around the globe. It offers an essential resource for anyone involved in transnational business and cross-border relationships.

Author : Robert Gibson
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529383021

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The highly practical self-help guide to optimize the performance of individuals working in an intercultural environment. Readers will learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations and how to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. Addressing the unique challenges of influencing across cultures and managing international projects, this is an indispensable toolkit for a key competence in business. Bridge The Culture Gaps provides readers with a framework for developing key skills essential for effective global collaboration in the VUCA world. These include reflecting on experience, understanding the nature and impact of culture and the importance of diversity for business success. Readers learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations, and to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. It addresses the challenges of leading diverse teams, influencing across cultures and managing international transformation projects, as well as making international assignments successful.

Author : Penny Carté
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749452749

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Based on the real-life business experiences of the authors' international clients, this updated book addresses such issues as cross-cultural presentations, overseas negotiations, and communicating across language barriers.

Author : Penny Carté
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749441708

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Praise and Reviews "As an American who has worked in Europe for the past 3 years, I find Bridging the Culture Gap to be a practical guide for communicating and influencing across cultures. The authors use authentic and engaging anecdotes, which will help readers to understand their own culture, and other`s reactions to it in the context of everyday business."Gary Kuusisto, Director, European Learning & Development, The Gillette Company"This book gives you a practical insight into cross-cultural communication in business today, based in part on the Canning team`s deep experience in training over 1,000 managers and specialists in a unique Franco-Japanese adventure. Every International professional should find food for thought in this book."Francois Foix, Human Resources Coordinator, Renault-Nissan"Full of real-life examples and practical advice which reflects the experience and skills of its masterful but unpretentious authors."Andreas Molck-Ude, Head of Africa and Middle East Division, Munich Re"Canning offers tough and intensive training, but brilliant results. I believe this book will do the same thing for anyone looking for success in cross-cultural business."Takashi Kashiwagi, Head of Global Regulatory Approvals and Marketing Support, Aventis JapanAs globalization gathers momentum, the contact between business people from other countries is becoming more frequent. The more national boundaries a company crosses, the greater the scope for misunderstanding and conflict. To succeed internationally, it is essential to be able to break the barriers of culture, language and set patterns of thinking.Bridging the Culture Gap, written by two of Canning's most experienced trainers, is a distillation of many years' work and is based on the real-life business situations of their international clients. You'll find out how to:interpret the party linecommunicate with styleget your message acrossplay the conversation gamebe sensitive to other culturesmind your mannersavoid the usual faux paswin the dealand so much more.Packed with fascinating cases, cultural awareness scales, communication style tests and practical tips, this lively guide will help anyone - of any nationality - to become a better communicator. Whether you're planning to give a presentation to a cross-cultural group or about to negotiate with an overseas client, Bridging the Culture Gap will ensure that your cultural awareness antennae are well tuned.

Author : Lionel Laroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135119384

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The Chinese characters for "danger" and "opportunity" form the word "crisis". Ancient Chinese wisdom sees an opportunity in danger. While cultural diversity brings challenges to the workplace, how do we turn these challenges into opportunities? Drawing on their extensive experience working with multicultural and multinational organizations, Lionel Laroche and Caroline Yang provide an in-depth analysis of cross-cultural dynamics in the workplace and offer practical suggestions at both the individual and organizational levels. The book analyzes cross-cultural challenges in six areas: the relative importance of technical and soft skills; cross-cultural communication; cross-cultural feedback; hierarchy; individualism; and risk tolerance. It then provides a solutions framework that encompasses people, systems and environment to bridge the issues that arise from cultural differences. The analysis and solutions are applied in four business contexts: managing a multicultural workforce; competing in the global talent market; collaborating with joint venture partners; and working with offshore resources. If you work with colleagues, managers, employees and customers from diverse cultures, if you are with an organization that has a multicultural workforce and/or global operations, or if your organization collaborates with joint venture partners or offshore resources from different cultures, then Danger and Opportunity: Bridging Cultural Diversity for Competitive Advantage is the book for you.

Author : Thomas A. Lisk Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1440636567

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Get the gift of gab. In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how to prosper in this highly competitive and lucrative field. • Expert author in a rapidly growing field • Contains inside tips on every aspect of speaking professionally • Clear and practical information about how to set up a professional speaker’s business and promote it • Suggestions for extra goods and services for additional revenue • Features event planning and organizing strategies and instructive anecdotes from the field

Author : Michaela Furdzova
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :

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This paper analyzes and compares the business cultures of China and the West, conducting its primary data analysis by collecting and processing primary data through interviews. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of cross-cultural knowledge and cultural understanding during business negotiations. By incorporating Hofstede0́9s cultural dimensions theory, this research argues that various aspects of culture have a significant impact on various forms of personal and business interactions between individuals. Using case studies, this analysis illustrates this principle: failure to understand cultural differences and norms mark the difference between a successful negotiation versus a project that fails. The study will show significant differences in Western and Chinese business cultures and contain recommendations that promote mutual understanding and acceptance.

Author : Michelle LeBaron
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"In our global society, challenging conflicts abound in personal, business, government, and international settings. Many of these conflicts are complicated by layers of miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and completely different ways of looking at the world. These conflicts cannot be solved by goodwill or sincere intentions alone. In our multicultural world, we need new tools to address gaps in communication and understanding and the conflicts that flow from them. This book answers this need in groundbreaking ways that cut through complexity, replacing confusion with clarity." - book jacket.