Cultural Differences and Improving Performance: How Values and Beliefs Influence Organizational Performance

One of the most significant and yet largely overlooked issues on problem solving and performance in many large organizations is the increasing influence of national culture; thus organizations need to be able to understand the influence of cultural expectations and behaviours on performance and adapt their problem solving accordingly; strategies appropriate in one part of the world may be ineffective or even counter-productive in another. Bryan Hopkins' ground breaking book looks at the implications of culture on performance, including the well established ideas of Trompenaars, Hofstede and Schein before offering a practical structure for problem solving within the context of an international, multi-cultural environment. This is a book for managers struggling to equate their desire to develop the business globally with the challenge of achieving consistent performance across borders. It's also a book for governments seeking to understand the implications of culture as they intervene at a social, economic or even military level to support the development of other nations and other cultures to their own.