Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments

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Resolve cross-cultural communication issues with your business suppliers, customers, and staff! Because of the rapid growth of multinational corporations and the World Wide Web, global interdependence is no longer a matter of ideology or choice, but an inescapable reality. Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments teaches managers both practical techniques and theoretical insights... Read more

Resolve cross-cultural communication issues with your business suppliers, customers, and staff!

Because of the rapid growth of multinational corporations and the World Wide Web, global interdependence is no longer a matter of ideology or choice, but an inescapable reality. Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments teaches managers both practical techniques and theoretical insights for working with people from diverse cultures in home and host countries.

Managers who ignore or dismiss cultural differences may find themselves alienating customers and employees, fumbling negotiations, and ultimately losing sales. In contrast, those who are willing to see the world from different perspectives may spot fresh opportunities. Bringing multiple cultures together results in synergy, in which two combined energies multiply and reinforce one another. Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments tells you not only how to create synergy, but also how to profit from it.

Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments offers practical features to help students and managers understand diverse cultures, including:

charts, maps, and tables showing specific cultural divergences
detailed discussions of relevant theories in psychology, management, and ethics
exercises and self-tests
clear, skill-based objectives for each chapter
definitions of the terms and processes of multiculturalization

In the modern world, the key to prosperity--or failure--in the global marketplace is awareness of cultural differences. Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments offers a sweeping multidisciplinary inventory of facts, theories, and practical ideas for making multiculturalism work. This comprehensive volume is a crucial resource for every manager who belongs to a multinational organization, as well as students of both domestic and international business, political science, international relations, public administration, and educational administration. Read less

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Distinctive Features
The Purpose of This Book
Boundaries of Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments
The Plan of This Book
Intended Audiences
Chapter 1. An Overview: Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
Historical Transitions in International Business
The Changing Profile of Global Business Behavior
The Nature of International Business
International Business Environments
The Field of Multicultural Behavior
Globalization of International Business
Multiculturalism and Cultural Diversity
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #1
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #1
Case Study: IBM Argentina
Chapter 2. Multicultural Understanding
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
Foundation of Individual Behavior
The Concept of an Individual Person
Cultural Orientations
The Conceptual Dimension of Culture
Cultural and Behavioral Stratification
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #2
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #2
Case Study: Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik (BASF): Competition and Cooperation
Chapter 3. Understanding Global Environments and Cultural Value Systems
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
The Culture and Global Environments
The Basic Conceptual Model of a Society
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #3
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #3
Case Study: The Whistle-Blowers: SmithKline Beecham PLC
Chapter 4. Contemporary Multicultural Behavior
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
The New Field of Behavioral Culturalogy
Intercultural Contact: Processes and Outcomes
Six Theories of Behavioral Culturalogical Knowledge
Knowledge-Based Integration of Philosophy, Sciences, Arts, and Technological Information
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #4
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #4
Case Study: Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Doing Good in the Nature of Bad? Or Doing Bad in the Nature of Good?
Chapter 5. Foundations of the Individual Identity: Quiddity and Kinetic Needs, Motives, and Drives
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
The Meaning of Needs
Needs Theories
Motivation As the Starting Point
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #5
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #5
Case Study: The Mondrian Hotel in Hollywood, California
Chapter 6. Sensation, Perception, Conception, Attribution, and Attitude
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
Analysis of Personhood
Historical Scientific Views About Personhood
What Is Sensation?
What Is Perception?
What Is Conception?
What Is Attribution?
Attitudes and Attitude Formation
Managing Sociocultural Attitudes
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #6
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #6
Case Study: The General Electric Managerial Perception: Who Will Run GE?
Chapter 7. Understanding and Managing Individual Personality
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
Analytical Views on Personalogy
The Meaning of Personhood
Five Categories of Personality
Personality and the Workplace
Coping with Individual Differences
Summary
Chapter Questions for Discussion
Learning About Yourself Exercise #7
Scoring Directions and Key for Exercise #7
Case Study: Texaco Sex Bias
Chapter 8. Moral and Ethical Behavior
Chapter Objectives
Introduction
Complexity of Global Busines

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