Cultures and Organizations

The revolutionary study of how the place where wegrew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act--with new dimensions and perspectives Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart-when cooperationis so clearly in everyone's interest. With major new contributions from MichaelMinkov's analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account ofthe evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, this revised and expanded edition: Reveals the "moral circles" from which national societiesare built and the unexamined rules by which people think,feel, and act Explores how national cultures differ in the areas of inequality,assertiveness versus modesty, and tolerance for ambiguity Explains how organizational cultures differ from nationalcultures-and how they can be managed Analyzes stereotyping, differences in language, cultural rootsof the 2008 economic crisis, and other intercultural dynamics

吉尔特·霍夫斯泰德（Geert Hofstede），于荷兰代尔夫特理工大学获得机械工程学位。于格罗宁根大学获得社会心理学博士学位。在荷兰的多家企业担任过技术和管理职务。后来进入IBM欧洲公司，创建了人事研究部并担任主任。　　他的学术生涯开始于洛桑的国际管理学院（IMD），后来加盟法国枫丹白露的lNSEAD商学院、布鲁塞尔的欧洲高级管理学院、卢森堡的国际应用系统分析研究所、荷兰的马斯特里赫特大学。他在马斯特里赫特大学教授组织人类学和国际管理，直到l993年退休。是跨文化合作研究所（IRIC）的创始人和首任主任。　　他的著作有17种语言的版本。文章发表在世界各地的社会科学和管理学期刊上。他位居社会学科引文索引（SSCl）中被引用次数最多的100位学者之列，是享此殊荣的极少数的非美国人之一。他是美国管理学会（AOM）会士，享有欧洲四所著名大学的荣誉博士学位...

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