Authors: Fons Trompenaars, Alfons Trompenaars
ISBN-13: 9780786311255, ISBN-10: 0786311258
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: December 1997
Edition: 2nd Edition
Fons Trompenaars is managing director of United Notions, an international management and training consulting group with clients that include Motorola, Mars, Shell, Eastman Kodak, Heineken, and Apple Computer. Trompenaars, an accomplished consultant and author, has given over 1,000 cross-cultural training programs in 18 countries. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of Management at the University of Pennsylvania.
Charles Hampden-Turner is a leading management consultant with a DBA from Harvard. He has authored over a dozen books, including Maps of the Mind, and with Fons Trompenaars coauthored The Seven Cultures of Capitalism and Mastering the Infinite Game. Hampden-Turner is a past winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award and is based at the University of Cambridge Judge Institute of Management Studies.
Read the book that is revolutionizing international business!
With over 50,000 copies sold in its first edition, Riding the Waves of Culture dispelled the idea that there is only one way to manage, and was the first book to show professional managers how to build the cross-cultural skills, sensitivity, and awareness required in today's global business environment. In this second edition, Fons Trompenaars and co-author Charles Hampden-Turner reveal the seven key dimensions of business behavior, and how they combine to form four basic types of corporate culture:
This revised and updated edition features completely new sections including:
Fons Trompenaars is managing director of United Notions, an international management and training consulting group with clients that include Motorola, Mars, Shell, Eastman Kodak, Heineken, and Apple Computer. Trompenaars, an accomplished consultant and author, has given over 1,000 cross-cultural training programs in 18 countries. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of Management at the University of Pennsylvania.
Charles Hampden-Turner is a leading management consultant with a DBA from Harvard. He has authored over a dozen books, including Maps of the Mind, and with Fons Trompenaars coauthored The Seven Cultures of Capitalism and Mastering the Infinite Game. Hampden-Turner is a past winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award and is based at the University of Cambridge Judge Institute of Management Studies.
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
1 | An Introduction to Culture | 1 |
2 | The One Best Way of Organizing Does Not Exist | 13 |
3 | The Meaning of Culture | 20 |
4 | Relationships and Rules | 29 |
5 | The Group and the Individual | 51 |
6 | Feelings and Relationships | 70 |
7 | How Far We Get Involved | 83 |
8 | How We Accord Status | 105 |
9 | How We Manage Time | 123 |
10 | How We Relate to Nature | 145 |
11 | National Cultures and Corporate Culture | 161 |
12 | Towards International and Transnational Management | 186 |
13 | Reconciling Cultural Dilemmas | 200 |
14 | South Africa: The Rainbow Nation | 218 |
15 | Gender, Ethnicity and Functional Diversity | 227 |
App. 1 | Examples from the 16 Questions Used to Measure Corporate Culture | 250 |
App. 2 | The Trompenaars Database | 252 |
App. 3 | Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Intercultural Management Group | 264 |
Index | 267 |