Essential Concepts of Cross-Cultural Management: Building on What We All Share

Essential Concepts of Cross-Cultural Management: Building on What We All Share

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You may recognize the statement on the back cover of so many textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce–‘to help you understand and appreciate the economic, political, and technological context in which international business operates.’ But this defined approach is tantamount to placing three wheels on a car and expecting it to drive smoothly. It cannot be operated without the balance that a fourth one provides, and that required wheel is culture. The author believes, in this modern era of globalization, managers venturing forth to engage alien societies must be armed with cross-cultural skills that go above and beyond the instructions of how to kiss, bow, or shake hands. This book provides a more concise, simple, and practical approach that cuts through the complicated cultural matrix. This book is divided into three sections. The first section explains how culture acts as the prime driver of our life–the filter of our senses and the guide of our values, hence the measurement barometer upon which all our decisions and behavior are constructed; the second section examines how cross-cultural determinants should function as a worthwhile tool in cross-cultural engagement proposing a two-step concentration; and the final section offers the practical application of specific techniques that will help you navigate the cross-cultural milieu and become a cultural detective.

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management: Bridging the Gaps Between Setting and Executing Strategy

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management: Bridging the Gaps Between Setting and Executing Strategy

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As an executive, your organization may have limited resources. This book will instruct you and your leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal work portfolio.
You’ll learn how to sponsor every project stage, as well as leading project managers as direct reports. Detailed advice is given for developing project management competency and utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes.
You’ll learn how your organization can capitalize upon information technology to become competitive and to effectively implement business strategies, as well as how to make portfolio and project decisions using both qualitative and quantitative data and reliable analysis methods.

Communication Strategies for Today's Managerial Leader

Communication Strategies for Today’s Managerial Leader

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Given that communication is the lifeblood of an organization, as a managerial leader you know you need to understand how to use communication strategies to build your team to achieve organizational objectives. Too often, though, you might feel as though you have moved into this managerial leadership role without the training to improve your communication skills. This book provides that training and the communication principles that are so critical for today’s managerial leader.

Inside, you’ll learn how to build a solid foundation while learning real strategies to enhance your written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Most research has stated, and the author has found true in her own managerial leadership roles, that a leader spends the majority of his or her day interacting with others. As a managerial leader, you often face challenging situations such as determining how to inspire a shared vision about goals and objectives, building trust within your unit, listening with an open mind, giving feedback, and encouraging collaboration.

This book doesn’t just focus on the important written and oral communication skills but also on interpersonal communication, which is equally important. Leaders need to build teams and maintain relationships with all stakeholders. The best way to make that happen is through skills such as listening, asking questions, and giving feedback.

The Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions:Serving Students as Customers for Institutional Growth

The Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions:Serving Students as Customers for Institutional Growth

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If you are a professional interested in reorganizing or restructuring your higher education or postsecondary institutions, youll need this book. Inside, the author smartly examines the needs of learners in the 21st century, the rise of for-profit highereducation institutions, and the technological innovations impacting postsecondary education. Kazeroony provides examples of administrative processes and how to satisfy regulatory agencies standards to take advantage of a particular marketing niche for attracting students. He addresses the changing environment of higher education, the administrative structure, challenges, and the requirements for successful execution of start-up operations or changing strategies for existing institutions, as well as provides a summary of findings and additional recommendations.

Global Supply Chain Management

Global Supply Chain Management

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Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart, Dell, and Toyota have enjoyed strong competitive advantages in their respective markets as a result of their world-class supply chains. As the supply chain increasingly lengthens, managers at all levels of the organization must understand the unique challenges of working with suppliers and customers located around the world–and the opportunities that can build new competitive advantages. This book will introduce readers at all levels of experience to cutting-edge methods and strategies for global sourcing and global distribution through the discussion of current research and case study vignettes from companies in every corner of the world.

Cross-Cultural Management

Cross-Cultural Management

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The book offers an introduction to cross cultural management through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business anthropology and international management. An introduction to the concept of culture will be followed in subsequent chapters by the comparative description of different typologies which will be used to explain various expected behaviours in intercultural business settings. This will be followed by an introduction of the fundamental issues in cross-cultural management: what is culture, how can we describe it, to what extent is it important in international business? And we introduce the main frameworks used in the discipline for identifying and analysing cultural differences. In the second part of the book we introduce the reader to the main frameworks discussed in Part I and to real-life cross-cultural situations in the world of work. We introduce discussions on the application of previously analysed cultural frameworks as a basis for the elaboration of new ideas relating to current issues in organisational behaviour. International organisations normally deal with topics such as the relationships between the employee as a socialised individual and the culture of his/her organisation, managing in a globalised context, the development and management of cross-cultural teams, negotiating interculturally and dealing with subsequent potential conflicts, etc. The final of the book part elaborates on how the globalised economy projects its needs for inclusion and for understanding. From the ethics perspective, we describe the need to find a coherent pattern of norms that are widely accepted and shared in spite of diversity, and how to define and act under the paradox of equality in spite of difference.

A Stakeholder Approach to Issues Management

A Stakeholder Approach to Issues Management

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The book will appeal to corporate managers who must manage issues and controversies involving outside groups and organizations The book shows practitioners how to ground their strategic advice on the kind of empirical research that reveals the socio-political dynamics of the issue. It is the first book to approach issues management from a blended application of advances in institutional theory, social movement theory, stakeholder theory and social network analysis.

Top Management Teams: How to Be Effective Inside and Outside the Boardroom

Top Management Teams: How to Be Effective Inside and Outside the Boardroom

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This book provides an overview of the organizational mechanisms of TMT impact. When having finished this book, readers will know how a TMT exerts influence and have more insight in how to make TMTs more effective in their organizations. Insight into the ways in which TMTs influence their organizations can benefit practicing top managers, as well as non-executive directors, consultants, team coaches etc. It may help them in establishing early indicators of organizational performance, selecting new TMT members, diagnosing dysfunctional TMT behavior, and assessing the TMT’s interaction with middle managers. Therefore, I expect this book to be interesting for a wide audience of practitioners and researchers.

Cost Management and Control in Government: Fighting the Cost War Through Leadership Driven Management

Cost Management and Control in Government: Fighting the Cost War Through Leadership Driven Management

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Dr. Geiger gives us tools to attack the issue proactively, providing an attractive alternative to reacting to the budget cuts we all know are coming.– Ms. Anderson is a certified defense financial manager and a member of The American Society of Military Comptrollers. She is currently employed as the Director for Revolving Funds at the Department of Defense. Government organizations spend enormous amounts of money. They employ a large percentage of the work force. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for “bright line” discrepancies and clear violations to those rules and regulations. Government operations are often criticized for “waste and mismanagement.”Yet the current situation, unfortunately, can best be described as one of “un-management” rather than “mis-management.” Government can run better. The purpose of this book is to look at how government can move from “rule driven” to “leadership driven” management. Specifically, it will document and discuss specific examples of successful cost informed decision making and cost management and control in government. It will also delineate the requirements of such success and explore the special needs of transforming the management culture of government from its well embedded past practices to a new paradigm of leadership driven management.