Cultures and Organizations : Software for the mind

The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectives

Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart'when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest.

With major new contributions from Michael Minkov's analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account of the evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, this revised and expanded edition:

Reveals the 'moral circles' from which national societies are built and the unexamined rules by which people think, feel, and act

Explores how national cultures differ in the areas of inequality, assertiveness versus modesty, and tolerance for ambiguity

Explains how organizational cultures differ from national cultures'and how they can be managed Analyzes stereotyping, differences in language, cultural roots of the 2008 economic crisis, and other intercultural dynamics

Content

Introduction: The Rules of the Social Game

Part I: Dimensions of National Cultures

Chapter 1. More Equal Than Others

Chapter 2. I, We and They

Chapter 3. He, She and (S)he

Chapter 4. What Is Different Is Dangerous

Chapter 5. Yesterday, Now or Later?

Part II: Cultures in Organizations

Chapter 6. Pyramids, Machines, Markets and Families

Chapter 7. The Elephant and the Stork

Part III: Implications

Chapter 8. Intercultural Encounters

Chapter 9. Surviving in a Multicultural World

Endnotes

Glossary

 Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index