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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international OB and management. Presented from a global, rather than a North American or Western European perspective, it offers a unique cultural perspective on the roots of organizational behavior around the world. Finally, the book acts as a guide to the changes that are not only reshaping organizations, but the ways we understand them as well. KEY TOPICS A six-part organization covers understanding international organizational behavior, managing it, its larger context, emerging issues, cases, and skills exercises. For any manager or professional interested in improving knowledge of the role of culture in organizations throughout the worldespecially organization development specialists, expatriate managers, and human resource professionals.
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Table of Contents
I. TEXT 1. The Management of International Organizational Behavior
2. Culture and Organizational Behavior
3. Ethics and Social Responsibility
4. Communication
5. Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
6. Groups and Teams
7. Motivation
8. International Human Resource Management
9. Organizational Commitment, Organizational Justice, and Work-Family Interface
10. Managing Diversity
11. Leadership
12. Organization Structure
13. Organizational Culture
14. Organizational Change
II. CASES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. A Cultural Clash in the Entertainment Industry. Anne Marie Francesco and Barry Allen Gold
2. Conscience or the Competitive Edge? (A and B). Kate Button and Christopher K. Bart
3. The Careless Collaborators. Sara L. Keck and Anne Marie Francesco
4. Portrait of a Young Russian Capitalist. Barry Allen Gold
5. Yutaka Nakamura: A Foreigner in His Native Land. J. Stewart Black
6. Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain. Gail Ellement and Martha Maznevski
7. Managing a Diverse Work Force in Indonesia. John E. Walsh, Jr.
8. Shell Oil in Nigeria. Anne T. Lawrence
9. Argentina Suites (II): 1996 to 1998 Demian Hodari and Timothy R. Hinkin
10. Aung Sein: An Entrepreneur in Myanmar. Robert W. Hornaday
11. Fuqima Washing Machine Corporation. Haihong Xu
12. Wellcome Israel (A and B). Daniel Mueller
13. Conoco's Decision: The First Annual President's Award for Business Ethics. J. Brooke Hamilton III and Steve L. Scheck
14. West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide. Jeffery P. Shay
15. Ireka Construction Berhad: A Chinese Family Business Goes Public. Anne Marie Francesco
16. Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Richard Eisenbeis and Martin Schmidt
17. A Candidate for Saudi Arabia -Lotte Kragelund and Mikael Søndergaard
III. SKILL EXERCISES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. Where Have You Been? An Exercise to Assess Your Exposure to the Rest of the World's People. Paul Beamish
2. Selected Intercultural Incidents. S. Paul Verluyten
3. The Owl: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity. Theordore Gochenour
4. The East-West Game (Emperor's Pot). Donald Batchelder
5. Race from Outer Space: An Awareness Activity. Dorothy Goler Cash
6. How Many Things Do You Like to Do at Once? An Introduction to Monochronic and Polychronic Time. Allen C. Bluedorn, et al
7. Double-Loop Thinking: Seeing in Two Perspectives. Anne B. Pedersen
8. Bribery in International Business. Dorothy Marcic
9. Babel: Interpersonal Communication. Phillip M. Ericson
10. Ugli Orange Case. Robert J. House
11. Work Values Exercise. Carol Wolf
12. Japanese Decision-Making Exercise (Ringi/Nemawashi). William Van Buskirk
13. Dimensions of National Culture and Effective Leadership Patterns: Hofstede Revisited. Peter Dorfman
14. Royal Flush. Jessica Robinson, Tamu Lewars, La Shanda Perryman, Torla Crichlow, Kimberly Smith, John Vignoe, et al.
15. Management in the Year 2200. Hiroaki Izumi
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