Managing People Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series) - Softcover

Trompenaars, Fons

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841124729 ISBN 13: 9781841124728

Publisher: Capstone, 2004

Synopsis

Managing People Across Cultures maps out the value of people issues in the organizations of today. It challenges us to ask key questions such as ?How did Human Resource Management (HRM) come to be and what genuine need is there for it?? and ?What should the future direction of HRM be?? Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner spell out their vision for what HRM must do to stay relevant to businesses today. Their view is that people management must embrace the values of entrepreneurship i.e. agility, flexibility and innovation to ensure its continued effectiveness. The authors also argue that workplaces have to become customized to grow and learn as its employees push the boundaries of learning and discovery. Functional barriers also need to be torn down. You will discover that the rightful place for HRM is at the fountainhead of any business; the place where ideas are first generated and mobilized for action.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Managing People Across Cultures tackles head on the following issues:

• The relationship between HRM and corporate culture
• Recruitment, selection and assessment
• How training managers can achieve strategic goals
• How HRM can facilitate problem-solving within teams
• Leadership development across cultures
• Varieties of culture shock

There are also role-play and simulation exercises designed to stimulate your understanding of the key issues.

About the Author:

FONS TRAMPENAARS is Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), an innovative centre of excellence in intercultural management.  He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author and co-author of several books, including Did the Pedestrain Die?, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century and the worldwide bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture.

CHARLES HAMPDEN-TURNER is a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of management, Cambridge University.  He graduated from Cambridge and received his MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School.  In the USA, he received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Humanitites Fellowship.  he has recently been appointed Goh Tjoei Kok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School, Singapore.  He is author of eighteen books and widely recognised as one of today's key business thinkers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1841124729
• ISBN 13: 9781841124728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384