Working with Cultural Differences

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Working with Cultural Differences Dealing Effectively with Diversity in the Workplace

Richard Brislin

Book Code: C35282

ISBN: 0-313-35282-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35282-9

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200 pages, n/a

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2008

List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Psychology » Psychology (General)

Series Title: Contributions in Psychology

Series Number: 51

Description: Given the internationalization of business, and the increasing need to work effectively with culturally diverse people in one's own country, people are facing new and more common challenges in developing workplace relationships. The challenges include communicating across differences in the use of silence and indirectness, dealing with negative exchanges, or neutral exchanges that one party perceives as negative, making decisions, working through criticisms and disagreements, and interpreting changing workplace dynamics. In this book, Distinguished Professor Richard Brislin shows us that helpful guidelines for everyday intercultural interactions are clear in information that has been gathered across the fields of cross-cultural psychology, organizational behavior and intercultural communication. A psychologist and a professor of management, Brislin uses actual examples he calls "critical incidents" to illustrate the basic psychological processes that play a part in effective, and ineffective, intercultural relationships across workplaces. The differences they face include individual and collective cultural background, the relative emphasis placed on the importance of status and power, behaviors relative to a culture's social norms, and gender expectations of males and females in the workplace. Insights explained here allow readers understand how they can benefit from, rather than be frustrated by, intercultural experiences, and how to better develop such relations. Short stories throughout the text demonstrate how actual people in business recognized and dealt with intercultural issues, at home and abroad.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Adjusting to Other Cultures
Chapter 3: Individualism and Collectivism
Chapter 4: Communication Interpreting Silence, Quiet, and Indirectness
Chapter 5: Communication: Interpreting Directness and Potentially Negative Exchanges
Chapter 6: Dealing with Criticisms and Disagreements
Chapter 7: Decision Making
Chapter 8: Interactions Among Males and Females
Chapter 9: Status and Power
Chapter 10: The Number and Importance of Social Norms
Chapter 11: Workplace Dynamics
Chapter 12: Developing Interpersonal Relationships
Chapter 13: Basic Psychological Processes at Work During Intercultural Interactions
Chapter 14: Some Final Pieces of Advice and Some Concluding Perspectives
Acknowledgments
References

LC Card Number: 2008010126

LCC Class: HF5549

Dewey Class: 658

PDF Catalogs:
Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf	Greenwood Multicultural Spring 2008.pdf


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