GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture, and Time (Jossey-Bass Management) - Softcover

O'Hara-Devereaux, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555426026 ISBN 13: 9781555426026

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Provides practical answers to the most pressing questions faceddaily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking researchconducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of suchorganizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express,this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies thekey competencies that managers need to succeed in the globalworkplace.

Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced bytoday's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, thisguide identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed inthe global workplace.

Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced bytoday's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, thisguide also identifies the key competencies managers need to succeedin the global workplace.

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About the Author

MARY O'HARA-DEVEREAUX is vice president of Grove Consultants International, an organizational consulting firm, and senior research fellow at the Institute for the Future. She consults extensively worldwide with businesses and government organizations on global management and organizational change. ROBERT JOHANSEN is director of the Emerging Information Technologies Program at the Institute for the Future and a research affiliate at the Center for Information Systems Research and the Center for Coordination Science at MIT. He is lead author of several books including Teleconferencing and Beyond (1984) and Groupware: Computer Support for Business Teams (1988).

From the Back Cover

"One of the few cutting-edge books you'll read this year. It's as valuable for the new perspective it'll give you as for the tools you can put to use now."―Soundview Executive Summaries" This practical handbook makes sense of hte daily conflicts, uncertainties, and pleasures of work in cross-cultural teams, global outposts, and even cyberspace through the cultural lenses used by anthropologists―language, time, context, power, and information flow."―Industry WeekPractical answers to the most pressing questions faced daily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of such organizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express, this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies the key competencies that managers need to succeed in the global workplace.

Reviews

While many of the books on the globalization of business, society, or telecommunications focus on technology, and others consider cultural diversity, few have dealt with both issues simultaneously. The authors, both of whom are affiliated with a research and consulting organization called the Institute for the Future, discuss the problems of team building and group activities when team or group members are dispersed--separated by time, distance, and cultures. Using results from the institute's five-year "Groupware Outlook Project," they cover cross-cultural communication, process facilitation, remote teamwork, and the use of information technology to minimize distances and take advantage of differences. While their scope is truly multinational, the authors target the U.S. and its relations with the Pacific Rim nations, Mexico, and Canada. David Rouse

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555426026
• ISBN 13: 9781555426026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472