Managing Chinese-African Business Interactions: Growing Intercultural Competence in Organizations (Palgrave Studies in African Leadership)

CONTENTS

Part I: Cultural Insights into Chinese-African Management

Chapter 1

Introduction

Claude-H?l?ne Mayer

Chapter 2

Chinese Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management

Zhaoyi Liu

Chapter 3

African Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management

Samukele Hadebe and Dion Nkomo

Part II: Intercultural Training Cases: Dealing With International Communication, Cooperation and Negotiation

Chapter 4

Case 1: Dealing With Organisational Strategies in the Tanzanian-Chinese Chalinze Water Project

Christian Martin Boness

Chapter 5

Case 2: "Not who I am, not what I mean" Intercultural Communication in Chinese-African Interactions

Fungai B Chigwendere

Chapter 6

Case 3: Dealing With Organisational Structures, Decision-making and Participation in the Zambian Textile Industry

Christian Martin Boness, Naiming Wei and Claude-H?l?ne Mayer

Chapter 7

Case 4: A Negotiation Between Chinese and African Organisations in Namibia

Haiyan Zhang, Chen Ni and Liusheng Wang

Chapter 8

Case 5: How to Make Friends in Rwanda: A Chinese Tea Ceremony

Christian Martin Boness

Part III: Intercultural Training Cases: Entrepreneurship, Management Styles, Language and Identity

Chapter 9

Case 6: Setting Up Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMES) by Chinese Entrepreneurial Immigrants in Maputo, Mozambique

Mattheus Johannes Louw, Lynette Louw. and Fiona Geyser

Chapter 10

Case 7: Managing a Chinese-Angolan National Housing Project in Angola's Capital, Luanda

Christian Martin Boness, Naiming Wei and Claude-H?l?ne Mayer

Chapter 11

Case 8: Language, Culture, and Power in the Chinese-South African Telecommunications Sector

June Sun

Chapter 12

Case 9: Transforming Employee Conflicts in a Chinese Construction Firm in Kampala, Uganda

Sidney Muhangi

Part IV: Intercultural Training Cases: International Human Resource Management

Chapter 13

Case 10: Sharing Knowledge in a Sudanese Oil Refinery Through Cultural and Language Trainings

Christian Martin Boness

Chapter 14

Case 11: Working Conditions in a Chinese-Ugandan Communications Company

Christian Martin Boness and Naiming Wei

Chapter 15

Case 12: Managing a Chinese-South African Restaurant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Zhaoyi Liu

Part V: Intercultural Training Cases: Management Practices and Employment Relations

Chapter 16

Case 13: Employee Perceptions of a Chinese Heavy Machinery Importing Organisation Operating in Uganda

Lynette Louw, Katherine Burger and Mattheus Johannes Louw

Chapter 17

Case 14: Hiring and Firing in the Chinese-Zimbabwean Mining Industry

Christian Martin Boness

Chapter 18

Case 15: Managing Chinese-Cameroonian Daily Interactions in a Company in Douala, Cameroon

Jocelyne Kenne Kenne

Chapter 19

Case 16: A Cross-cultural Conference in the Mozambique Confucius Institut

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303025187X
• ISBN13: 9783030251871
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"