The Transplanted Executive

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Advance praise for
The Transplanted Executive
"This compact volume includes highly useful information and perspectives for any manager anticipating or involved in international assignments outside of their own country. The discussions and guidelines are based on solid research findings, not mere speculation. The authors' framework for analyzing cultures provides particularly helpful insights for the expatriate executive who has to deal with issues of motivation, communication, team formation, and the like."
—Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine
"Barley and Erez make sound suggestions to managers working in different cultural environments about the optimal ways to communicate, motivate, and lead as well as form effective teams and organizations."
—Harry C. Triandis, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
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Advance praise for
The Transplanted Executive
"This compact volume includes highly useful information and perspectives for any manager anticipating or involved in international assignments outside of their own country. The discussions and guidelines are based on solid research findings, not mere speculation. The authors' framework for analyzing cultures provides particularly helpful insights for the expatriate executive who has to deal with issues of motivation, communication, team formation, and the like."
—Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine
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—Harry C. Triandis, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
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With the passage of NAFTA, the steady integration of the European Community, and the emergence of promising new markets in Eastern Europe and the Pacific Rim, businesses around the world are globalizing their operations with unprecedented speed. But as executives working in foreign countries have discovered, organizational cultures can differ dramatically from country to country, and management practices effective back home can fail miserably abroad. TAi Transplanted Executive provides a comprehensive resource for managers of any nationality striving to understand the diversity of workplace values and traditions—and how they can be used to maximize employee efficiency, morale, and the bottom line.
Offering sensible solutions to everyday problems, this informative volume shows how employees with different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds respond to specific managerial techniques. The authors demonstrate, for example, why effective incentive systems in Japan might decrease productivity in United States, and why successful efforts to create team-based cooperation in Russia could alienate rather than motivate workers in England. Further, they describe why the same management practices used in the same country can generate success for some, but failure for others. Each chapter focuses on a different management problem—effective communication, motivation of workers, turning groups into teams, leadership skills, and quality management production—and following each chapter are quick reference charts that neatly summarize the text. The authors also include a table which provides cultural profiles of nearly 50 countries from major business centers around the world.
Now more than ever, multinational managers need to be in touch with the range of
cultural issues that can affect their overseas operations. With The Transplanted Executive in hand, managers the world over will have a user-friendly guide to understanding and mastering the subject.
About the Authors
P. Christopher Earley is the Corporate Partners Research Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine and Professor of Organization Behavior at the London Business School. Miriam Erez is Dean and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Vissza