Management Worldwide : The impact of Societal Culture on Organizations around the Globe

Hickson, David - Puch, Derek

Societies obviously have distinct dress codes and favourite foods, but they also have very different attitudes to age and time, power and status, 'masculinity' and individualism, directness, uncertainty and loyalty, which shape how things are done at work. Even something that sounds like a 'Yes' to a foreigner may actually be a polite way of saying 'No'.

ISBN 9780140149814 / Penguin / 306p / pb / €12.95