Managing People Across
Cultures maps out the value of people issues in the organizations of today. It challenges
us to ask key questions such as How did Human Resource Management (HRM) come to be and
what genuine need is there for it ? and What should the future direction of HRM be ? Fons
Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner spell out their vision for what HRM must do to stay
relevant to businesses today. Their view is that people management must embrace the values
of entrepreneurship i.e. agility, flexibility and innovation to ensure its continued
effectiveness. The authors also argue that workplaces have to become customized to grow
and learn as its employees push the boundaries of learning and discovery. Functional
barriers also need to be torn down. You will discover that the rightful place for HRM is
at the fountainhead of any business; the place where ideas are first generated and
mobilized for action.
Table of Contents
Introduction Human Resource
Management: A leading force or a palliative?
Chapter 1 Human Resource
Management and Corporate Culture.
Chapter 2 Recruitment,
Selection, and Assessment.
Chapter 3 Training Managers
to Attain Strategic Goals.
Chapter 4 How HRM Can
Facilitate the Problem-Solving Power of Teams.
Chapter 5 Building a
Learning Organization: A challenge to HR.
Chapter 6 Leadership
Development Across Cultures.
Chapter 7 From Personal
Diagnoses to Web-Based Assessments.
Chapter 8 Steps Towards
Resolving Dilemmas.
Chapter 9 Creating an
Assessment Center.
Chapter 10 Varieties of
Culture Shock.
Author Information
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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