Culture Clash: Managing in a Multicultural World

By Alan Seelye-James, H. Ned Seelye, Ned Seelye

Book Overview

Take this culture quiz to quickly determine how you will cope in multicultural business situations. Answer Yes or No to each question. Smiling is always a good way to establish rapport. Progress is inevitable and necessary. It is good to be action oriented. People are defined primarily in terms of their work and achievements. Each person is an individual and should seek and achieve independence from others. Competition is a good way of motivating people. There is usually a best way of doing something which should be determined and then followed. We are problem-solvers. There are problems in the world, and we should work to find solutions to them. The use of numbers will increase your credibility. A handshake at the end of a conversation means agreement and acceptance of terms and conditions. What is the right answer to each of these questions? The short answer is: Sometimes. The real answers to these and hundreds of other questions about doing business across cultures are found on the pages of

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844233048
• ISBN13: 9780844233048
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group
• Length: 198 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

This book is a helpful for US managers of multinationals.

Culture Clash presents complex intercultural communicationstheories and interventions in a simple, direct style, making this anexcellent guidebook for laypersons. Covering such practical topics as dealing with language barriers and value differences among employees, negotiating and analyzing cross-cultural situations, the authors use definitions, case studies and a variety of self-assessment tools to make the material relevant for the day-to-day experience of U.S. American managers.U.S. domestic and expatriate managers who know their corporate environment, but who are less familiar with multicultural issues, will find this book most useful. While it may provide helpful tools for anyone, it is designed to serve the specific needs of readers from the USA.