Cultures and Organizations - Software of the Mind

Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival

Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede

434 pages, parution le 21/10/2004 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up constrains the way we think, feel, and act, updated for today's new realities

The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity undreamed of by science fiction writers fifty years ago. What is it that continues to drive people apart when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest? Are we as a species doomed to perpetual misunderstanding and conflict? Find out in Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind.''

A veritable atlas of cultural values, it is based on cross-cultural research conducted in seventy countries for more than thirty years. At the same time, it describes a revolutionary theory of cultural relativism and its applications in a range of professions. Fully updated and rewritten for the twenty-first century, this edition:

Reveals the unexamined rules by which people in different cultures think, feel, and act in business, family, schools, and political organizations
Explores how national cultures differ in the key areas of inequality, collectivism versus individualism, assertiveness versus modesty, tolerance for ambiguity, and deferment of gratification
Explains how organizational cultures differ from national cultures, and how they can--sometimes--be managed
Explains culture shock, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, differences in language and humor, and other aspects of intercultural dynamics
Provides powerful insights for businesspeople, civil servants, physicians, mental health professionals, law enforcement professionals, and others

L'auteur - Geert Hofstede

Geert Hofstede Professeur émerite d'anthropologie des organisations et de management international de l'université de Maastricht et docteur honoris causa d'université de sept pays européens. Auteur mondialement connu, son ouvrage Culture's Consequences en a fait un pionnier de la recherche comparative interculturelle. Ses idées sont enseignées dans le monde entier, et, en 2008, il a été cité parmi les 20 penseurs les plus influents dans le domaine du management (Wall Street Journal).

L'auteur - Gert Jan Hofstede

Gert Jan Hofstede, docteur en biologie et professeur d'informatique à l'université de Wageningen aux Pays-Bas. Il a publié des ouvrages sur la conception des bases de données, sur des méthodes interactives de formation à l'interculturel, et sur le rôle de la confiance dans les réseaux organisationnels. Il travaille à présent sur la modélisation des émotions et de la culture.

Sommaire

The Rules of the Social Game
Dimensions of National Cultures
More Equal Than Others
I, We, and They
He, She, and (S)he
What Is Different Is Dangerous
Yesterday, Now, or Later?
Cultures in Organizations
Pyramids, Machines, Markets, and Families : Organizing Across Nations
The Elephant and the Stork : Organizational Cultures
Implications
Intercultural Encounters
Surviving in a Multicultural World

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Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede
Parution	21/10/2004
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	434
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	594g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071439596
ISBN13	978-0-07-143959-6