InhaltsangabeManaging People Across Cultures tackles head on the following issues: * The relationship between HRM and corporate culture * Recruitment, selection and assessment * How training managers can achieve strategic goals * How HRM can facilitate problem-solving within teams * Leadership development across cultures * Varieties of culture shock There are also role-play and simulation exercises designed to stimulate your understanding of the key issues.

FONS TRAMPENAARS is Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), an innovative centre of excellence in intercultural management. He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author and co-author of several books, including Did the Pedestrain Die?, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century and the worldwide bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture. CHARLES HAMPDEN-TURNER is a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of management, Cambridge University. He graduated from Cambridge and received his MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School. In the USA, he received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Humanitites Fellowship. he has recently been appointed Goh Tjoei Kok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School, Singapore. He is author of eighteen books and widely recognised as one of today's key business thinkers.

Introduction; Human Resource Management: A leading Force or a Palliative? 1. Human Resource Management and Corporate Culture. 2. Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment. 3. Training Managers to Attain Strategic Goals. 4. How HRM Can Facilitate the Problem-Solving Power of Teams. 5. Building a Learning Organization: A challenge to HR. 6. Leadership Development Across Cultures. 7. From Personal Diagnoses to Web-Based Assessments. 8. Steps Towards Resolving Dilemmas. 9. Creating an Assessment Center. 10. Varieties of Culture Shock. Endnotes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.