Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind: Software of the Mind - Brossura

Hofstede, Geert; Hofstede, Gert Jan

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ISBN 10: 0071439595 ISBN 13: 9780071439596

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Riassunto

The landmark study of cultural differences across 70 nations,Cultures and Organizations helps readers look at how theythink—and how they fail to think—as members of groups.Based on decades of painstaking field research, this new editionfeatures the latest scientific results published in Geert Hofstede’sscholarly work Culture’s Consequences, Second Edition. Originalin thought and profoundly important, Cultures and Organizationsoffers vital knowledge and insight on issues that willshape the future of cultures and nations in a globalized world.

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Geert Hofstede (Netherlands) is professor emeritus of organizational anthropology and international management at the University of Limburg, in Maastricht, where he is the founder and director of the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation.

Gert-Jan Hofstede (Netherlands) is a Ph.D. and a professor at Wageningen University.

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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

Geert Hofstede, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Gert Jan Hofstede, Ph.D., is a professor of Information Systems at Wageningen University and the son of Geert Hofstede.

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071439595
• ISBN 13: 9780071439596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 434