Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment. As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner?s landmark bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures shows exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible. You will also learn how to renew cultures as part of change and how to integrate cultures successfully following mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. New research shows that in cross-border business, differences in corporate culture have more far-reaching repercussions than even differences in national cultures. Never before has there been such enormous interest in shaping and changing the cultures of our businesses, whether to revitalise them after restructuring or to provide the glue that holds them together through the sea changes of globalization.
Book Details:
- Author: Fons Trompenaars
- ISBN: 9781841125787
- Year Published: 2004
- Pages: 316
- BISAC: BUS019000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Decision-Making & Problem Solving
About the Book and Topic:
Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment. As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner?s landmark bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures shows exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible. You will also learn how to renew cultures as part of change and how to integrate cultures successfully following mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. New research shows that in cross-border business, differences in corporate culture have more far-reaching repercussions than even differences in national cultures. Never before has there been such enormous interest in shaping and changing the cultures of our businesses, whether to revitalise them after restructuring or to provide the glue that holds them together through the sea changes of globalization.
The ability to shape and change corporate cultures is of vital importance for today?s international managers. Revitalising corporate cultures after restructuring, providing the right glue to hold the company together during a globalisation process and preventing corporate culture clashes in international post merger, acquisition or joint venture processes are key business issues. This book discusses what corporate culture is, how it can be assessed, why corporate culture has such a powerful influence on the economic performance of organisations, and how high-performing corporate cultures can be shaped in an international environment. It offers a new conceptual framework for understanding corporate cultures and for understanding the impact of national culture patterns on corporate culture. It gives guidelines on how to create corporate cultures, how to assess corporate cultures, how to renew corporate cultures as part of change processes e.g. restructuring, globalizing; and how to integrate corporate cultures as a part of post-merger, post-acquisition and joint venture processes. Recent case study material from leading international companies from US, Europe and Asia is used throughout the book. The Culture for Business series addresses the most important business issues of the moment from a specifically cross-cultural perspective. The series is grounded in the research that underpins the unique Trompenaars Hampden-Turner database of cross-cultural profiles. Over 60,000 managers from more than 60 countries across the world have completed THT?s extensive diagnostic questionnaire, and the series draws on this deep research base as a platform for these highly accessible guides to key business issues like strategic planning and scenarios, corporate culture and communications. The series is entertaining and inviting, aimed at busy executives who need to address contemporary business issues from multiple perspectives.
1. Trompenaars is a cult figure in management thinking 2. Culture for Business series systematically assesses key business functions from a cross-cultural management perspective 3. Trompenaars intensive speaking and consulting activities are a genuine engine for sales he has sold over 100,000 copies of Riding the Waves of Culture
About the Author
Fons Trompenaars is the worlds foremost cross-cultural management guru. He is Director of THT, and innovative centre for excellence for intercultural management issues, and the author of several books including the worldwide bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture. Peter PrudHomme is an expert in business culture. From 1979 to 1993 he was a manager with international responsibilities at Philips, where he was involved in a major corporate culture change programme (Centurion). Since 1993 he has been a corporate culture consultant to major American, European and Asian companies in 32 countries.