Paradoxes of Culture and Globalization

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ISBN: 9781412940450 | 1412940451
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Copyright: 6/29/2007

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"What is a paradox? Why are cross-cultural paradoxes essential for understanding the changes that are occurring because of globalization? Encompassing a wide variety of areas including leadership, cross-cultural negotiations, immigration, religion, economic development, and business strategy, Paradoxes of Culture and Globalization develops 93 cross-cultural paradoxes essential for understanding globalization." "This is a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as International Management, International Business, Comparative Management, World Business Environment, Cross-Cultural Management, Cross-Cultural Communications, and Cultural Anthropology in the departments of business and management, communication, and anthropology. It is also appropriate for management training and education."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface
A Third Perspective
Paradoxes, Education and Training
Exercise: Introducing the Book
A Note on Writing
Acknowledgements
Conceptual Foundations
Thinking Paradoxically
Essential Concepts
Limitations
Takeaways
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Conceptualizing and Perceiving Culture
Conceptualizing Culture
Why are there so many definitions of culture?
Can there be a very large and a very small number of cultures?
Can collectivists be self-centered and selfish?
Value paradoxes exist in all cultures. For example, how can a national culture value freedom and dependence simultaneously?
How are cultural values and cultural practices related?
Does culture matter?
Are demographics more important than culture?
Should we advocate only one perspective on culture?
Perceiving Culture
Do proper introductions and greetings simultaneously involve kissing, bowing, and shaking hands?
Are cultural stereotypes valid?
Are the distinctions between levels of culture relevant in a globalizing world?
Do insiders understand their own cultures better than outsiders?
Can global citizenship and the effects of root cultures exist simultaneously?
Can cultures change quickly?
Takeaways
Discussion Questions
Exercise
Exercise After Each Chapter
Behavioral Issues
Leadership, Motivation, And Group Behavior Across Cultures
Framing leadership: Is the essence of leadership being stuck on the horns of a dilemma?
Who is more effective: The instrumental/visionary/transformational leader or the Headman?
When should a leader involve subordinates in decision making?
Can an effective leader be someone who publicly humiliates subordinates?
Motivation
Is the relationship between motivation and ability additive or multiplicative in the prediction of individual success and performance?
Can an individually-based need hierarchy exist in a collectivistic culture?
Do effective executives attribute success to themselves or to others?
Group Behavior
Are there free riders or equally-responsible contributors in small groups?
Do the personalities of individuals primarily reflect the influence of culture both in general and in small groups?
Should multi-cultural groups be managed differently than single-culture groups?
Takeaways
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Answers
Communicating Across Cultures
Language
How can knowing the language of another culture be a disadvantage?
How can languages be rapidly dying while becoming more influential?
Critical words and phrases: How can there be immediate recognition by
Are proverbs effective descriptors of a culture?
Context and Beyond
Can a culture be simultaneously monochronic and polychronic?
Can a culture be simultaneously low-context and high-context?
Symbolism
Can a culture be simultaneously monochronic and polychronic?
Can a culture be simultaneously low-context and high-context?
Symbolism
How can the same phenomenon represent different symbolic meanings?
How can the same phenomenon represent different symbolic meanings?
Technology and Mediated Communication
Can face-to-face communication be functionally equivalent to mediated communication, either individually or in small groups?
Is the Internet integrating the world or creating wide differences?
Is colonization or communitarianism winning in the battle for the Internet?
Why is the information superhighway a poor metaphor for describing modern communication systems such as the Internet?
Takeaways
Discussion Questions

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