Managing People Across Cultures

FONS TRAMPENAARS is Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), an innovative centre of excellence in intercultural management.  He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author and co-author of several books, including Did the Pedestrain Die?, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century and the worldwide bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture. CHARLES HAMPDEN-TURNER is a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of management, Cambridge University.  He graduated from Cambridge and received his MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School.  In the USA, he received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Humanitites Fellowship.  he has recently been appointed Goh Tjoei Kok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School, Singapore.  He is author of eighteen books and widely recognised as one of today's key business thinkers.

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• Introduction; Human Resource Management: A leading Force or a Palliative? 1. Human Resource Management and Corporate Culture.2. Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment.3. Training Managers to Attain Strategic Goals.4. How HRM Can Facilitate the Problem-Solving Power of Teams.5. Building a Learning Organization: A challenge to HR.6. Leadership Development Across Cultures.7. From Personal Diagnoses to Web-Based Assessments.8. Steps Towards Resolving Dilemmas.9. Creating an Assessment Center.10. Varieties of Culture Shock.Endnotes.Appendices.Bibliography.Index.