As technology erodes the impact of time and distance, more and more people live and work across cultures. This book equips readers with the tools to embrace the richness and beauty brought by ...cultural diversity, and ultimately engage with the key skills for thriving in today's fast-paced, highly interconnected and interdependent world.
This book offers an up-to-date, in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies and management practices, laying out the business foundations that make Japan a leading player in both the ...global supply chain and the upcoming digital transformation.
Chinese scholars and practitioners are embracing business anthropology (a branch of applied anthropology) in a distinctive manner that explores cultural diversity and the impacts of economic ...development. The knowledgeable, spirited, and passionate advocacy for the development and value of business anthropology in China is clearly displayed and set out clearly and persuasively; the major theoretic contributions made by the Chinese scholars is presented along with China's profound reforming and opening. Anthropologists from around the world can benefit from an analysis of these important and distinctive developments.
This special issue of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography showcases some of recent ethnographies that reflect variety, in terms of methodology as well as context. Here are six very different ...contributions to novelty in organizational ethnography: from multi-site, video-based ethnographies that rely on inputs from team members across the globe to desk-based nethnographies, from explorations of space to those of emotions, and from studies of single organizations to those of entire fields. The variety is tantalizing, as is the dedication of these scholars to their method or subject of choice.
In Setting the Tone from the Top, Melinda Muth and Bob Selden examine how director conversations shape organisational culture. They show how using appropriate words and language can tap the ...collective knowledge of the board to improve working relationships and collective decision making, and ultimately positively impact the behaviour of management.
Politics in Organizations Ferris, Gerald R; Treadway, Darren C
2012, 20120427, 2011, 2012-02-14, 2012-04-27
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This edited volume in the SIOP Frontiers series is one of the first to look at the psychological factors behind politics and power in organizations. Noted contributors from schools of management, ...psychology, sociology and political science look at the theory, research, methodology and ethical issues related to organizational politics and climates. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at the historical evolution of the field; Part 2 integrates organizational politics with important organizational behavior constructs and/or areas of inquiry, for example in the chapter by Lisa Leslie and Michele Gelfand which discusses the implications of cross-cultural politics on expatriates and within cross-national mergers; and Part 3 focuses on individual differences and organizational politics, focusing on the nature of political relationships.
This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are ...produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted “meeting ethnography” in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.
This book introduces an innovative new digital approach to speed up cultural change in organisations and reduce failure rates through use of the Culture Acceleration Tool and Methodology (CATM). ...Including real life case studies, the book demonstrates the possibility of a higher success rate with organisational culture change management.
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