Managing Across Cultures
Concepts, Policies and Practices
- Mohamed Branine - Abertay University
Managing Across Cultures introduces the concepts, policies and practices of managing resources in different socio-economic, political and cultural contexts.
This book is structured on a country-by-country basis to allow a closer and more rigorous examination of the factors that influence labor market trends, organization and employment policies and practices in specific countries.
Key Features:
- Includes dedicated chapters on emerging economies in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America
- Provides an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implications of different national approaches to management in a clear and coherent style
- Packed with case studies and examples from a wide range of geographical contexts
- Learning features include: learning objectives, tasks, summaries, further reading and revision questions
This is a key text for Cross-Cultural/International Management, International HRM and International Business courses at both advanced undergraduate and graduate level.
Managing Across Cultures gives us an overview of the economic, political, social and cultural context of managing across cultures in 15 clusters of countries that are key players in today's global economy. This highly-accessible text provides a multilevel and multidisciplinary approach and keeps us away from cultural reductionism
Zeynep Aycan
Department of Management, Koc University, Turkey, Editor of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management
This is the most authoritative and comprehensive textbook I have ever seen on the subject. This text provides invaluable learning support for anyone interested in issues, concepts and challenges confronting international managers
Professor Farhad Analoui
Professor, Human Resource Management and International Development, Bradford University
This well-written book contains a wealth of valuable knowledge, with its broad coverage of management issues and practices in both developed and developing countries. A must-have publication for anyone with an interest in international management
Prof. Yaw A. Debrah
Professor of Human Resource & International Management, Swansea University
Simplifies an otherwise complex concept - culture.Attempts to make
A very good and structured book on the topic of management across cultures. It is the perfect add on to the classic theory teaching books in intercultural management. Highly reccomended!
Very good!
Whilst this is a useful book for supplementary information for my students, particularly the chapter relating to Hong Kong, we are using a more generic book on management/leadership that covers more on theories/leadership styles. Managing Across Cultures is useful for students to put this into their local context.
This textbook provides an overview of the economic, political and cultural impact on management in a number of clusters of countries. Therefore, it can be recommended as a supplemental resource dealing with the topic "Doing business in..."."
Very thought provoking discussions
It is a very useful contribution to the field of management across cultures. Because of its structure, I consider this book as a recommended reading. In my course, we follow theoretical path and this book is structured by geographic approach.
This comprehensive text provides excellent coverage of HRM developments across a range of countries. Each entry covers societal, macroeconomic and organisational characteristics of the countries being considered before key HRM topics are reviewed. This consistency of approach enables students to compare and contrast developments across societies in a clear, accessible way. Five integrative case studies provide scope to apply and develop understanding of key concepts and the text opens and closes with coverage of a number of critical and emerging issues relating to the management of people in an increasingly globalised world. Students at senior undergraduate and postgraduate level will find this to be a clear, lucid and valuable text for their studies in international HRM.
A very useful subsidiary text that takes a country by country approach to key management and HR issues with useful insights into the cultural differenes and challenges. It fits well with one of our assessment tasks in an IHRM module on MSc programme and the apporach is different to many texts which take a topic by topic approach.
