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Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
Geert Hofstede
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Description for Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
Paperback. This volume contains over 100 cultural awareness exercises, dialogues, stories, incidents and simulations. It is aimed at anyone involved in international business, international affairs, or education, in short anyone who works or lives abroad. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446. Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures. 256 pages, illustrations. This volume contains over 100 cultural awareness exercises, dialogues, stories, incidents and simulations. It is aimed at anyone involved in international business, international affairs, or education, in short anyone who works or lives abroad. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC. Dimension: 228 x 178 x 16. Weight: 510.
Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten "pure" cultural types derived from the extremes of the five dimensions. The result is a playful book of practice that is firmly rooted in theory.
Part light, part serious, but always thought-provoking, this unique book approaches training through the three-part process of building awareness, knowledge, and skills. It leads the reader through the first two components with more than 75 activities, dialogues, stories, and incidents. The Synthetic Culture Laboratory and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781877864902
SKU
V9781877864902
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Geert Hofstede
Geert Hofstede is an international authority in the field of cross-cultural social psychology and is cofounder of the Institute for Research and Intercultural cooperation at Tilburg University where he also serves as a Senior Fellow. Culture's Consequences and Cultures and Organizations are two of the books for which he is famous. Gert Jan Hofstede, son of Geert Hofstede, is a ... Read more
Reviews for Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
What a gold mine of information! What a wealth of material! Exploring Culture is a book that gives the interculturalist real substance and real tools in the same volume. I congratulate the authors for having constructed a masterpiece in intercultural training.
David Crookall, Ph.D., Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Editor, Simulation and Gaming
Full of both practical approaches ... Read more
David Crookall, Ph.D., Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Editor, Simulation and Gaming
Full of both practical approaches ... Read more