GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture and Time (The Jossey-Bass Management Series) - Softcover

O'Hara-Devereaux, Mary

 
9781555426026: GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture and Time (The Jossey-Bass Management Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555426026 ISBN 13: 9781555426026
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Provides practical answers to the most pressing questions faced daily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of such organizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express, this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies the key competencies that managers need to succeed in the global workplace. Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace. Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide also identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace.

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About the Author

MARY O'HARA-DEVEREAUX is vice president of Grove Consultants International, an organizational consulting firm, and senior research fellow at the Institute for the Future. She consults extensively worldwide with businesses and government organizations on global management and organizational change. ROBERT JOHANSEN is director of the Emerging Information Technologies Program at the Institute for the Future and a research affiliate at the Center for Information Systems Research and the Center for Coordination Science at MIT. He is lead author of several books including Teleconferencing and Beyond (1984) and Groupware: Computer Support for Business Teams (1988).

From the Back Cover

"One of the few cutting-edge books you'll read this year. It's as valuable for the new perspective it'll give you as for the tools you can put to use now."―Soundview Executive Summaries" This practical handbook makes sense of hte daily conflicts, uncertainties, and pleasures of work in cross-cultural teams, global outposts, and even cyberspace through the cultural lenses used by anthropologists―language, time, context, power, and information flow."―Industry WeekPractical answers to the most pressing questions faced daily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of such organizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express, this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies the key competencies that managers need to succeed in the global workplace.

From the Inside Flap

Provides practical answers to the most pressing questions faced daily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of such organizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express, this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies the key competencies that managers need to succeed in the global workplace.Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace.Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide also identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace.

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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1555426026
ISBN 13 
9781555426026
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
472