Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences
How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific?

Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent questions, based on research carried out in the subsidiaries of a leading global company, Lafarge, in the contrasting cultural environments of China, the United States, France and Jordan. It appears that, in a large part of the world, people's expectations are similar; they expect from a good employer clear and decisive leadership, and fair and compassionate treatment, helping them to live a good life. But treating these expectations as the ‘same’ could be misleading. Western companies with a humanistic orientation are well positioned to fulfil them, provided they are willing, in each and every geography, to take into account the local vision of the right way to achieve a good life.

By following the example presented in this book, companies who care can deliver economic efficiency as well as progressive people management in the countries in which they operate.

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Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences
How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific?

Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent questions, based on research carried out in the subsidiaries of a leading global company, Lafarge, in the contrasting cultural environments of China, the United States, France and Jordan. It appears that, in a large part of the world, people's expectations are similar; they expect from a good employer clear and decisive leadership, and fair and compassionate treatment, helping them to live a good life. But treating these expectations as the ‘same’ could be misleading. Western companies with a humanistic orientation are well positioned to fulfil them, provided they are willing, in each and every geography, to take into account the local vision of the right way to achieve a good life.

By following the example presented in this book, companies who care can deliver economic efficiency as well as progressive people management in the countries in which they operate.

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Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences

Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences

by Philippe d'Iribarne
Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences
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Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences

Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures: The Challenge of Differences

by Philippe d'Iribarne

Overview

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific?

Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent questions, based on research carried out in the subsidiaries of a leading global company, Lafarge, in the contrasting cultural environments of China, the United States, France and Jordan. It appears that, in a large part of the world, people's expectations are similar; they expect from a good employer clear and decisive leadership, and fair and compassionate treatment, helping them to live a good life. But treating these expectations as the ‘same’ could be misleading. Western companies with a humanistic orientation are well positioned to fulfil them, provided they are willing, in each and every geography, to take into account the local vision of the right way to achieve a good life.

By following the example presented in this book, companies who care can deliver economic efficiency as well as progressive people management in the countries in which they operate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138118287
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/16/2017
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philippe d’Iribarne is Managing Director of Gestion et Société (Management and Society), at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris, France

Table of Contents

1. France and the United States: Two Sets for a Single 2. China: Between Guanxi and Celestial Bureaucracy 3. Unity and Tribalism in Jordan 4. Local Forms of Support in all their Diversity: A Cross-Company Survey 5. Values Materialize Within a Diversity of Cultures Conclusion Appendix - National Cultures and Management: An Interpretative Approach

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