Cross-Cultural Managment - Various concept and approaches

Cross-Cultural Management - Various concept and approaches
As part of our usual methodology, we explore the immediately-available material on the subject.
We try to cross a few approaches, from which we get a bigger picture understanding
We are then able to articulate what we believe is key to our own approach - namely the dimension of appreciation inter-linked with the various dimensions of communication especially listening, silence and questioning.

Below are some parts of the first step: understanding various approaches...

Cross-Cultural Management:A Knowledge Management Perspective Description Cross-Cultural Management, A Knowledge Management Perspective forges a break with the concept of culture that has dominated management thinking, education and research for several decades. Culture rather than being presented as a source of difference and antagonism, is presented as a form of organisational knowledge that can be converted into a resource for underpinning core competence. "If books are to be judged on the effect that they have on the thought processes of the reader Professor Holden's book is outstanding.  This book will provide both a valuable theoretical underpinning and many insights that will move the study of cross-cultural management and knowledge management into the age of the knowledge economy - an achievement that will pay dividends both to researchers and practitioners for many years to come." Prof Anthony Wensley, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Toronto

Features Criticises cross-cultural management studies for being dependent on traditional concepts of culture that are too detached from the everyday cross-cultural aspects of knowledge sharing, networking and organisational learning in the global economy. Proposes a new notion of culture based on the modern corporate world in which undergraduates, postgraduates and managers will work. Suggests new boundaries and directions for cross-cultural management education and research.

Table of Contents PART 1: ANTHROPOLOGY S AWKWARD LEGACY TO THE MANAGER'S WORLD  1. Culture: the specious scapegoat  2. The anthropologist's legacy  3. Some consequences of culture's consequences  4. Navigating knowledge management  5. Towards culture as an object of knowledge management PART 2: CASE STUDIES: MAKING SENSE OF CULTURE FROM A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE  6.  Case study 1: Novo Nordisk: cross-cultural management as facilitation  7.  Case study 2: Matsushita Electric: A learning history  8.  Case study 3: LEGO: transferring identity knowledge  9.  Case study 4: Sulzer Infra: creating one winning team PART III: REDESIGNING CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AS A KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN  11. Language: management's lost continent  12. The cross-cultural management and the translation of common knowledge  13. Cross-cultural management: synergies for participative competence Glossary

Back Cover "If books are to be judged on the effect that they have on the thought processes of the reader Professor Holden's book is outstanding.  This book will provide both a valuable theoretical underpinning and many insights that will move the study of cross-cultural management and knowledge management into the age of the knowledge economy - an achievement that will pay dividends both to researchers and practitioners for many years to come." Prof Anthony Wensley, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Toronto "By positing that cross-cultural management is a form of knowledge management, he broadens and reinvigorates the entire subject area at a stroke.  Researchers, practitioners and consultants are supplied with an array of new concepts, models and insights and , to some extent, a new language - all of which have been long overdue.  For the foreseeable future this will be the leading book on cross-cultural management." Prof Dr Gerhard Fink, Director of the REsearch Institute for European Affairs and Chairman of the Faculty of Business at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration "Holden's book is a milestone in the development of cross-cultural management.  It represents a conceptual shift in the field, one that many have been waiting for, redesigning cross-cultural management as a knowledge domain.  These new concepts will become references for practitioners as well as for researchers and trainers.  In the academic world,  where cross-cultural management is more and more to the forefront, no-one can afford not to have read this book." Marie-Therese Claes, ICHEC Brussels, Business School and Catholic University of Louvain Cross-Cultural Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective forges a break with the concept of culture that has dominated management thinking, education, and research for several decades. Culture, rather than being presented as a source of difference and antagonism, is presented as a form of organisational knowledge that can be converted into a resource for underpinning core competence.  FEATURES and BENEFITS:         " Focuses on 'cross-cultural interdependence' rather than tradititional views of comparative differences and similarities between cultures thereby suggesting new boundaries and directions for cross-cultural management education, research and practice for students and managers for years to come. Key to the text are four case studies of global companies which analyse rarely observed, yet everyday issues for organisations within the global economy- cross-cultural communication behaviour. " Supplies models and a glossary of terms to clarify the new concepts which ally cross-cultural management with knowledge management, providing an accessible, learning-oriented student and manager resource. Nigel Holden holds visiting professorships at the Vienna School of Economics and Business Administration, the Leiden University School of Management and the Kassel International Management School. He was formerly Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at Copenhagen Business School.  He has wide international experience as a management educator, researcher and consultant and has been a keynote speaker at academic and business conferences in the UK, various EU countries and the USA. http://www.pearson.ch/1471/9780273646808/Cross-Cultural-Management-A.aspx

Story telling, story telling and organisations, story telling in the broader frame of things, an intro...

I am wanting to tell you more about story telling... Reality is... the best is to listen and captivated by the story and the narator of course. It comes in pair.... If you are interested, why not check these links which I just uncovered... we could start from there...
In Singapore:
http://www.asianstorytellingnetwork.com/
http://www.bookcouncil.sg/sisf/
In the US, from the Smithsonian Associates (The Smithsonian Associates is recognized as the largest and most esteemed museum-based continuing education program in the nation):
http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/

A inspiring intro to an event from these people:

"This event is a bridge between the worlds: storytelling and organizations.  You are part of this story... in ways we don't yet understand. We are part of this story... in ways we don't yet understand. This story is being told through our lives.  This story is larger than us. .  This story is not finished being told. Today a new chapter will be written here, in our gathering

What will your contribution be? It's a mystery. It's alive. It's in you. It's in me. It's in this room. And, it has been here since  the beginning of time.  Welcome.

The Power Of Storytelling, Parable and Simplicity, An Economist Viewpoint

"There is also a deeper point: A simple story is not the same as a simplistic one. Even our little parable reveals possibilities that no amount of investigative reporting could uncover. It suggests, in particular, that what might seem to a naive commentator like a natural conclusion - if productivity growth in the steel industry reduces the number of jobs for steelworkers, then productivity growth in the economy as a whole reduces employment in the economy as a whole - may well involve a crucial fallacy of composition"

Paul Krugman, in The Accidental Theorist, 1997


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