Partnering for Organizational Performance Collaboration and Culture in the Global Workplace

by Briody, Elizabeth K.; Trotter, Robert T.; Trotter, Robert T., II; Sachs, Patricia; Johnsrud, Cristy S.; Bearegard, Mary; Lampl, Linda L.; Squires, Susan E.; Wasson, Christina; Gluesing, Julia C.; Riopelle, Kenneth R.; Chelst, Kenneth R.; Woodliff, Alan R.

• ISBN13: 9780742560130
• ISBN10: 0742560139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-07
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The increasing practice of working 24x7 does not only refer to providing customer service day and night. It also describes how work now gets handed off from one time zone to the next, making business hours effectively all-day and world-wide. Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, General Motors, and the Ford Motor Company all have embraced the advent of an increasingly global work environment. The result is that business today necessarily spans cultures, languages, and continents. In Partnering for Organizational Performance, applied anthropologists Briody and Trotter bring together an array of key practitioners and academics whose work demystifies the dynamics and life-cycles of partnerships. Each contributor explores the concepts and practices associated with the new, global reach of professional collaborative efforts by looking at cases that involve an array of partners. Students and practitioners will benefit from the in-depth analyses of cases that illustrate the possibilities of collaborative arrangements, whether in business and management, academic, or non-profit organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Partnership Frameworks and Models
Framing the Partnership Experience	p. 3
The Cultural Processes of Partnerships	p. 15
Developing Partnering Relationships
A "Dreamcatcher" Design for Partnerships	p. 57
Cultural Training Partnerships: Who Has the Power?	p. 75
Coordinated Autonomy? Culture in Emergency Response Partnering	p. 91
Practical Strategies for Partnership: An Inside-Out View	p. 107
Sustaining Partnering Relationships
An Educational Partnership for Immediate Impact	p. 125
Effectiveness through Partnerships: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Partnerships to Influence Product Development	p. 143
The Challenge of Partnerships in Complex Cultural Environments	p. 159
The Making of a Modem Kingdom: Transnational Partnerships in Saudi Arabia	p. 177
Lessons Learned
Learning from the Partnership Experience	p. 195
References	p. 221
Index	p. 235
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