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Preface | |
A Third Perspective | |
Paradoxes, Education and Training | |
Exercise: Introducing the Book | |
A Note on Writing | |
Acknowledgements | |
Conceptual Foundations | |
Thinking Paradoxically | |
Essential Concepts | |
Limitations | |
Takeaways | |
Discussion Questions | |
Exercises | |
Conceptualizing and Perceiving Culture | |
Conceptualizing Culture | |
Why are there so many definitions of culture? | |
Can there be a very large and a very small number of cultures? | |
Can collectivists be self-centered and selfish? | |
Value paradoxes exist in all cultures. For example, how can a national culture value freedom and dependence simultaneously? | |
How are cultural values and cultural practices related? | |
Does culture matter? | |
Are demographics more important than culture? | |
Should we advocate only one perspective on culture? | |
Perceiving Culture | |
Do proper introductions and greetings simultaneously involve kissing, bowing, and shaking hands? | |
Are cultural stereotypes valid? | |
Are the distinctions between levels of culture relevant in a globalizing world? | |
Do insiders understand their own cultures better than outsiders? | |
Can global citizenship and the effects of root cultures exist simultaneously? | |
Can cultures change quickly? | |
Takeaways | |
Discussion Questions | |
Exercise | |
Exercise After Each Chapter | |
Behavioral Issues | |
Leadership, Motivation, And Group Behavior Across Cultures | |
Framing leadership: Is the essence of leadership being stuck on the horns of a dilemma? | |
Who is more effective: The instrumental/visionary/transformational leader or the Headman? | |
When should a leader involve subordinates in decision making? | |
Can an effective leader be someone who publicly humiliates subordinates? | |
Motivation | |
Is the relationship between motivation and ability additive or multiplicative in the prediction of individual success and performance? | |
Can an individually-based need hierarchy exist in a collectivistic culture? | |
Do effective executives attribute success to themselves or to others? | |
Group Behavior | |
Are there free riders or equally-responsible contributors in small groups? | |
Do the personalities of individuals primarily reflect the influence of culture both in general and in small groups? | |
Should multi-cultural groups be managed differently than single-culture groups? | |
Takeaways | |
Discussion Questions | |
Exercises | |
Answers | |
Communicating Across Cultures | |
Language | |
How can knowing the language of another culture be a disadvantage? | |
How can languages be rapidly dying while becoming more influential? | |
Critical words and phrases: How can there be immediate recognition by | |
Are proverbs effective descriptors of a culture? | |
Context and Beyond | |
Can a culture be simultaneously monochronic and polychronic? | |
Can a culture be simultaneously low-context and high-context? | |
Symbolism | |
Can a culture be simultaneously monochronic and polychronic? | |
Can a culture be simultaneously low-context and high-context? | |
Symbolism | |
How can the same phenomenon represent different symbolic meanings? | |
How can the same phenomenon represent different symbolic meanings? | |
Technology and Mediated Communication | |
Can face-to-face communication be functionally equivalent to mediated communication, either individually or in small groups? | |
Is the Internet integrating the world or creating wide differences? | |
Is colonization or communitarianism winning in the battle for the Internet? | |
Why is the information superhighway a poor metaphor for describing modern communication systems such as the Internet? | |
Takeaways | |
Discussion Questions | |
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