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A Practical Guide for Workplace Transformation
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This edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change. It applies positive principles arising from the newly emerging fields of positive psychology, positive change, and positive organizational studies to the field of leadership and change; offering managers strategies and tools to lead change effectively, in the present-day boundary-less work environment. At its most fundamental level, the uniqueness of this volume lies in its anchorage in the moral and spiritual dimension of leadership, an approach most relevant for contemporary organizations.
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Building
Cross-Cultural
Competence
how to create wealth
from conflicting values
Charles M. Hampden-Turner
and Fons Trompenaars
Illustrations by
David Lewis
yale university press
new haven & london
Copyright 2000 by Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons
Trompenaars. All rights reserved.
This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including
illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections
107 and 108 of the U.S. C
Reflections on the Methodology of a Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between China and the ‘West’
In the last decade, not only the global but also the political climate – i. e. between China and the ‘West’ – has experienced a dramatic change. Instead of mutual cooperation, understanding and respect, there seems to be a climate of growing hostility and mutual accusations. Focusing on intercultural dialogue as a means of defusing potential for conflicts in the international arena, I shall offer a few ideas that appear to me important for conducting a fruitful dialogue – and hence also for overcoming present atmospheric disturbances.
I shall proceed from a few basic assumptions, first of all, the notion of culture: According to Clifford Geertz, culture can be understood as an inherited system of meaning which conveys identity and orientation in life. Its core is the value system (according to the ‘iceberg-model’ of culture: the part which is invisible beneath the water surface and is its determining portion). Charles Taylor referred to this value system as ‘horizon of significance’ (Taylor 1991: 52). Taylor’s notion is connected to the idea of cultural identity: In his view, defining our identity presupposes a sense of what is significant outside or beyond ourselves; in other words, we need a ‘background of intelligibility’ in order to make sense of our identity.
It goes without saying, though, that cultures are not static entities but that they are changing over history – intra-culturally and inter-culturally – and are thus dynamic. They also allow for considerable differences within themselves. This dynamic understanding of cultures should not lead, however, to other extremes, such as are often found in post-modern discourse, that is, to proceed from a principal hybridity of all cultures. In contrast, one could emphasize the slowness of cultural changing processes – or, as it were, the inertia of cultures. For, historical processes are by nature quite long, and there is .