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- International Management Behavior: Global and Sustainable Leadership
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Developing International Managers: Research-Grounded, Pragmatically-Tested
- Outline of the Book: Following the Challenges and Opportunities
- Focus on the Voyage
- Part 1
- Chapter 1: The Global Manager
- Globalization: The Setting for International Management Behavior
- Recent Globalization: Transportation and Communications Connect Us
- Managing Globalization = Managing Complexity
- Managing Complexity: Hercules Meets Buddha
- Managing People Across Borders: A Job Description
- Not all Jobs are Equally Global
- Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
- Manager or Leader? International or Global?
- Superhero or Ordinary Human? What Does it Take to Lead Across Borders?
- Global Managing Starts with a Global Mindset
- Opportunities for Global Managers
- Part 2
- Chapter 2: Understanding Culture: Through the Looking Glass
- Culture: Easier to Identify than Define
- All Groups Have Cultures
- Is Culture Becoming Less Important?
- Why Focus on Country Cultures?
- Culture Influences How We See the World
- Clearer Vision With D-I-E
- Culture Influences our Lenses
- When Cultures Meet – Question the Other or Question Ourselves?
- Culture Creates Efficiency and Identity
- Mapping Cultures
- The Cultural Orientations Framework and International Management
- How do we Engage the World Around Us?
- Who has Power? Who is Responsible?
- How do we Coordinate Collective Action?
- What is our Timeframe?
- Cultural Contributions in Multicultural Teams
- The Discipline of Cartography: Cultural Mixes, Changes, and other Complexities
- Culture is at the Core of International Management
- Chapter 3: Interpersonal Skills for International Management: The MBI Model for High Performance
- Mapping to Understand and Describe Differences
- Mapping in Action – A New Team
- Bridging Differences Through Communication
- Prepare to be Open, Optimistic and Active
- Decenter to Transfer Meaning
- Recenter to Align and Agree
- Integrating to Manage and Build on the Differences
- Generating Participation
- Resolving Disagreements
- Building on Ideas
- MBI Creates Results
- MBI in Action – Adapting Systems Across Boundaries
- Who Should Adapt?
- Continuous Learning for Development and Effectiveness
- Chapter 4: Managing Global Teams and Networks
- Teams are the Basic Unit of Work and Collaboration
- Effective Teams Manage Their Set Up and Their Processes Carefully
- Structural Inputs: Set Up the Team Right, From the Start
- Select Team Members Carefully
- Social Processes: Transform Input Conditions into Performance
- Effective Teams Adapt and Learn
- Virtual Teams: The Joys and Challenges of Distance and Technology
- Virtual Teams: Just What are We Dealing With?
- Dispersed Configuration: From Time Zones to Infrastructure
- Virtuous Cycles: Pursuing Three Processes Simultaneously
- Managing Virtual Teams: Leading Virtuous Cycles
- Virtual Teams are Complex, but can Create Great Value
- Beyond Teams: Connecting Networks for Social Capital
- Networks are Maps of Social Connections
- Social Capital: The Assets in Relationships
- Network Structure: Not All Networks are Created Equal
- Complex, Large, Distributed Global Teams: Ambitious Configurations to Achieve Ambitious Goals
- Teams in International Management Combine the Old and the New
- Part 3
- Chapter 5: Executing Global Strategy
- Strategy Execution is Embedded in Context: Know Your Assumptions
- Global Strategy Execution: Science + Art = Craft
- Aligning the Organization to Execute
- Tasks are the Building Blocks of Organizing
- Coordinate According to the Interdependence Need: The Foundation for Structure
- Aligning the Organization Everyday: The Critical Role of Systems
- Organizations are Socio-technical Systems
- Aligning Tasks with People
- Aligning the Organization with Systems: Each Part Affects the Others
- Aligning to the Environment
- Cultural Influences Assumptions about Strategy and Systems
- Cultural Influences Assumptions about Structure
- What’s the Verdict? Can Existing Practices, Systems and Management Styles be Transferred or Adapte
- Aligning Dynamically Requires Judgement
- Strategy in Global Organizations
- Business Strategy: The Most Fundamental Business Decisions
- Business Models: Making the “How” Choices
- Culture’s Influence on Strategy
- Developing a Global Presence
- The Classic Dilemma: Global Integration Versus Local Responsiveness
- Structures for Globalizing
- Choosing a New Market-Entry Mode
- Some Special Forms for Globalizing
- Executing Global Strategy: The Importance of Judgement and Leadership
- Chapter 6: Talent Management: Selecting and Developing Global Managers
- Global Managers Manage Complexity
- Eliminate or Amplify?
- Effective Global Managers are the Key to Responding to Complexity
- Global Talent Management
- International Assignments Come in Many Shapes and Sizes
- Selecting the Right Managers
- Women as Global Managers
- Training and Preparing for an International Assignment
- Adaptation and the Reality of Culture Shock
- Repatriation
- Challenging Destinations
- Ongoing Talent Development – Important for All International Companies
- Chapter 7: Managing Change in Global Organizations
- Managing Change: Preparing, Initiating, Reinforcing
- Before Implementing: Determining the Required Changes
- Phase 1: Appraising the Readiness for Change
- How Visible is the Need for Change?
- Top Management Support and Commitment
- Who Will the Change Agents Be?
- Who is the Target Group for the Change?
- Phase 2: Initiating Change and Adopting the New Behavior
- Training and Selection
- Building Support for the Change
- Adopting New Behaviors
- Phase 3: Reinforcing the Change
- Reward New Behaviors
- Realign the Organizational Alignment Model
- Benchmark New Behaviors
- The Change-Ready Organization
- People
- Tasks
- Structure
- Systems
- Change is a Constant
- Part 4
- Chapter 8: Competing with Integrity in Global Business: Personal Integrity
- Overview
- Ethical Issues
- Some Examples
- Human Rights and Security Examples
- The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Product Examples with Ethical issues
- Labor and Employment Practices Examples
- Responding to Ethical Problems
- Ethical versus Legal Behavior
- Ethical Frameworks
- Consequential Theories
- Rule-based Theories
- Cultural Theories
- Universalism, Relativism, and the “Asian Values” Debate
- Integrative Social Contracts Theory: A Way to Avoid Ethical Paralysis?
- Competing with Integrity
- Some Guidelines to Consider
- A Final Word
- Chapter 9: Competing with Integrity in Global Business: Corporate Sustainability
- Defining the Domain of Corporate Sustainability
- The UN Global Compact
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- Summary: The Triple Bottom Line – People, Planet, Profits
- Some Examples
- Does Corporate Sustainability Pay?
- Creating Sustainable Value
- Going forward: Embracing Stakeholder Theory
- Conclusions
- Index




