Working Across Cultures (Hardcover, Twenty-Third)

Cultural understanding is indispensable for people who live and work abroad or in multicultural settings, but few have appropriate knowledge and training in this area. Working Across Cultures addresses this need. Suitable for general readers yet intellectually challenging, the book illustrates how to thrive in unfamiliar cultures by understanding and tapping into the stress management mechanisms used by the people who live there. The book begins by refuting the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the level of etiquette. Distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures, the author examines the roles of authority, individualism, competition, security, negotiation, contracts, supervision, lifestyle, and even humor in different cultures. He shows how different concepts of time, space, information, and wealth shape everyday life across cultures. The book concludes with a comprehensive reading list for more than one hundred countries.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	July 2003
Authors:	John Hooker
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	416
Edition:	Twenty-Third
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-4807-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > International business Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business communication & presentation > General
LSN:	0-8047-4807-1
Barcode:	9780804748070

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