Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival

by Hofstede, Geert

• ISBN13: 9780070293076
• ISBN10: 0070293074
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: MCG (Manual)

Summary

Now for the first time in paperback, Geert Hofstede's classic study of the "software of the mind" helps us look at how we think - and also at how we fail to think as members of groups. Drawing on decades of rigorous research, the author reveals the unexamined rules by which we live and work together.
Melding unswerving intellectual courage and hard social, cultural, and organizational research, Hofstede shapes a sobering picture of a world perilously lacking in self-knowledge - unaware of serious differences between the groups that populate our planet and appallingly oblivious to the hidden "programs" that govern the behavior of cultures in a time of skyrocketing global contact.
But culture shock - whether the shocking contact is between an individual and a new country, between organizations, between the sexes, or between opposing diplomats - can be turned to our advantage, Hofstede says - if we understand it. And understanding is what this work is all about.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the revised edition
A guide through this book
Levels of culture	p. 3
More equal than others	p. 23
I, we, and they	p. 49
He, she, and (s)he	p. 79
What is different, is dangerous	p. 109
Pyramids, machines, markets, and families	p. 139
Virtue versus Truth	p. 159
From fad to management tool	p. 177
Intercultural encounters	p. 207
Surviving in a multicultural world	p. 235
Reading mental programs	p. 247
Glossary	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 264
Name index	p. 270
Subject index	p. 273
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