Trade between China and Africa is increasing year on year, while the West increasingly debates the nature and implications of China's presence. Yet little research exists at the organizational and community levels. While western press reporting is overwhelmingly negative, African governments mostly welcome the Chinese presence. But what happens at the management level? How are Chinese organizations run? What are they bringing to communities? What is their impact on the local job market? How do they manage staff? How are they working with local firms? This book seeks to provide a theoretical framework for understanding Chinese organizations and management in Africa and to explore how their interventions are playing out at the organizational and community levels in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on rigorous empirical research exploring emerging themes in specific African countries, this book develops implications for management knowledge, education and training provision, and policy formulation. Importantly it seeks to inform future scholarship on China's management impact in the world generally, on Africa's future development, and on international and cross-cultural management scholarship. Primarily aimed at scholars of international management, with an interest in China and/or in China in Africa, this important book will also be of great interest to those working in the area of development studies, international politics, and international relations.

Trade between China and Africa is increasing year on year, while the West increasingly debates the nature and implications of China's presence. Yet little research exists at the organizational and community levels. While western press reporting is overwhelmingly negative, African governments mostly welcome the Chinese presence. But what happens at the management level? How are Chinese organizations run? What are they bringing to communities? What is their impact on the local job market? How do they manage staff? How are they working with local firms? This book seeks to provide a theoretical framework for understanding Chinese organizations and management in Africa and to explore how their interventions are playing out at the organizational and community levels in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on rigorous empirical research exploring emerging themes in specific African countries, this book develops implications for management knowledge, education and training provision, and policy formulation. Importantly it seeks to inform future scholarship on China's management impact in the world generally, on Africa's future development, and on international and cross-cultural management scholarship. Primarily aimed at scholars of international management, with an interest in China and/or in China in Africa, this important book will also be of great interest to those working in the area of development studies, international politics, and international relations.

Contents:
Preface Introduction: Africa Part 1: Rethinking Management in Africa 1. Management Systems in Africa: the Cross-cultural Imperative 2. Developing Cross-cultural Theory and Methods in Africa Part 2: Managing Competences and Capacities 3. Managing Complexity and Uncertainty in the African Environment 4. Managing Decision-Making in Organizations in Africa 5. Using Appropriate Leadership and Management Styles 6. Motivating and Rewarding Managers 7. Gaining Employee Commitment: Work Attitudes and Organizational Climate 8. Managing Multiculturalism: Developing Managers Part 3: Learning from Countries and Cases 9. Nigeria: Managing Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities 10. Cameroon: Managing Cultural Complexity and Power With Olivier Nana Nzepa 11. Kenya: A Bridge Between Asia and Africa? 12. South Africa: The Future of Management in Africa? With Lynette Louw References

Arising from a research project funded by the Danish International Development Agency, Management & Change in Africa includes results of organizational surveys taken across a range of sectors in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. It combines methodology, theory, and case examples to explore thoroughly the cultural, historical and economic influences on management in Africa. In doing so, it illustrates how much can be learned from studying both the successes and failures of African management towards realizing the potential of an African Renaissance.

What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management ethics. To help the reader understand different approaches that global businesses can take to operate successfully and ethically, there are chapters focusing on specific countries and regions. As well as giving the wider geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book includes numerous examples in every chapter to help the reader critique universal assumptions of what is ethical. By taking a closer look at the way we view other cultures and their values, the author challenges us to rethink commonly held assumptions and approaches in cross-cultural management, and to apply a more critical approach.

A modern vampire tale which takes you for a journey across continents and time, following the title character. Von Dred is a refreshing twist on the vampire tale. The story follows the main character from his humble beginnings in a borough just north of London, to his days at university, his loves, triumphs, losses, and life. Once he is sired his tale continues as he searches for the answer to how and why he became the monster he is. His strong religious upbringing weighs heavy on his conscience. He resigns himself, eventually, to his fate - liar, thief, murderer...vampire. Our protagonist, no longer able to see his family, wanders around England and Europe, and eventually goes to America on his quest. He tries to figure out whether he is running away from something or to something else. All the while, his one big question goes unanswered - "Is there someone out there who will love me...forever?" Von Dred is not just a novel it is a journey full of unexpected twists and turns, love and indifference, disappointments and debauchery, blood and tears.

What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management ethics. To help the reader understand different approaches that global businesses can take to operate successfully and ethically, there are chapters focusing on specific countries and regions. As well as giving the wider geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book includes numerous examples in every chapter to help the reader critique universal assumptions of what is ethical. By taking a closer look at the way we view other cultures and their values, the author challenges us to rethink commonly held assumptions and approaches in cross-cultural management, and to apply a more critical approach.

`In the history of business and government globalization, Human Resource Management has been the last function to be internationalized - or, more optimistically, the first for which a need for diversity along national and cultural lines was recognized. In fact the fashionable term "Human Resources" for what used to be called "Personnel" is untranslatable into some languages, and often left in its English form. Considering people as "resources" is in itself a value choice, welcomed in some and rejected in other cultures. Preparing future HRM practitioners for recognizing and facing such value choices in the practice of their work is an important step towards better intercultural cooperation'- Geert Hofstede, author of "Culture's Consequences"

`Most books on IHRM-related topics address issues from the context of the

multinational corporation; this book expands that perspective by looking at

how different cultures tend to treat HR practices under conditions of globalization and within the domestic context. This book will be one that

students and practitioners will want to have in their personal libraries' - Mark Mendenhall, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

`An interesting and original treatment of an increasingly important subject.

Students and academics will welcome the extensive use of case material, as well as a

geographical coverage that is significantly broader than is found in most

other books on this topic' -

Professor Paul Blyton, Cardiff Business School

`In today's global economy, understanding the international dimensions of human resource management could not be more important. Terence Jackson brings a clarity of ideas and a creativity that allows readers of his new book, International HRM, both to understand the complexities of global people management and to, in fact, be better managers' - Professor Nancy J Adler, Faculty of Management, McGill University

`In these days of increasing globalization of business, this book is a very valuable and timely addition to the Human Resouce Management literature' - Rabindra N Kanungo, Professor Emeritus, McGill University

International HRM an essential text for students of international human resource management and international management.

The book takes a cross-cultural approach to the study and practice of human resource management by examining the contributions of different cultures in interaction and discussing academic issues within the context of actual companies and real cultures. Each chapter provides real-life cases together with sample questions that will help readers to draw conclusions from the cases. Each chapter ends with a section on various management implications, together with a section providing useful pointers for students' further research.

International HRM will be recommended reading on courses in international management, international human resource management and cross-cultural management, for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and MBA students.