Transcultural Management: A New Approach for Global Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

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ATSUSHI FUNAKAWA is program director of organizational learning and global development at Globis Corporation in Tokyo. His seminars on global organizational management have assisted thousands of professionals throughout Asia, the United States, Russia, and Europe in their quest to build cultural synergy across their organizations. He brings seventeen years of multicultural corporate experience to the writing of this book.

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Transcultural Management presents a compelling new model for transforming cultural clashes into cultural synergy. Going far beyond the dos and don'ts of mere protocol, it explains how cultural issues affect today's global business practices, provides a theoretical framework for transcultural management, and offers practical applications for managing any type of cross-border concern, including overseas branches, strategic alliances, acquisitions, and foreign personnel.

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In this age of market globalization and the increasing interdepAndency of world economies, businesses are finding the ability to manage effectively across languages and cultures critical to sustained success. Unfortunately, adequate training in cross-cultural management is sorely lacking for many of the executives and managers faced with such challenges. Thus cultures clash. Misunderstandings occur. Opportunities are lost. Transcultural Management, however, fills the cross-cultural management training gap with a revolutionary new approach to transforming cultural clashes into cultural synergy. Using the paradigm of U.S.--Japanese business relations as a touchstone, author Atsushi Funakawa outlines an array of proven strategies that can be used by businesses operating anywhere in the world to promote the kind of transcultural cooperation the global marketplace demands.Here, Funakawa offers an in-depth, multidisciplinary view of the subject, combining his extensive experience in management, organization development, communication, and cross-cultural training. And he presents a compelling new framework the transcultural management model for minimizing and transcAnding cultural discrepancies. This framework synthesizes intercultural perspectives, management, and communication skills into a single dynamic program business people can readily learn and apply in a variety of situations. Readers will also discover:**Five core transcultural competencies and seven mental disciplines that help business people transform their mindset, from ethnocentric to geocentric, from monocultural to multicultural, and eventually to transcultural

• A 21st-century perspective on the emerging business environment: the multinational, multicultural, and multilingual workplace
• Concrete applications for specific business situations, such as how to facilitate a cross-cultural business meeting and what kind of actions best facilitate a cross-border joint venture project.