Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior Improving Leadership Effe
Examining the importance of cultural attitudes on human resource practices, this book addresses an important, but often neglected aspect of cross-cultural leadership. First providing an overview of globalization processes and a description of the global m
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GLOBAL MINDSET AND CROSS-CULTURAL BEHAVIOR Improving Leadership Effectiveness
Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior
Wim den Dekker
Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior Improving Leadership Effectiveness
Wim den Dekker Barendrecht, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-1-137-50990-1 ISBN 978-1-137-50992-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50992-5
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Preface and Acknowledgments
The idea for this book came to me in the summer of 2014. After having completed my first book, Global Mindset and Leadership Effectiveness (also published by Palgrave, in 2013), I realized that the cultural dimension of global mindset could be further examined. Culture is a dimension of globalization, and a consequence of increasingly globalized business is a growing multicultural workforce and higher levels of intercultural contact. Leading people with different cultural backgrounds who are also geographically dispersed, organizing the company’s structure and processes from a perspective that integrates both global and local concerns, and formulating and communicating a shared vision on business and the company’s global and local resources are still important topics. According to my experience there are still managers with global responsibilities who have gaps in cultural knowledge and lack cross-cultural competence. They structure their business units or departments from an ethnocentric perspective in which passports seem to matter when appointing managers for senior
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