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`The useful models, interesting examples, and intriguing research results in this collection provide excellent material for understanding international or cross-cultural management' - Management Learning
Cross-cultural work groups are a reality in many contemporary organizations, yet the research into them has been dispersed among a variety of disciplines. Organizations and group members are often surprised or disappointed when multicultural groups fail to function in ways identical to homogeneous groups.
This volume pulls together research from a range of these disciplines, and presents the most recent research available on issues such as prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, gro
List of contents
Cross-Cultural Work Groups - Cherlyn Skromme Granrose and Stuart Oskamp
An Overview
PART ONE: CULTURAL GROUP INTERACTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS
Individual and Group Relations in Plural Societies - John W Berry
Change and Continuity in Organizations - Fathali M Moghaddam
Assessing Intergroup Relations
PART TWO: INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN CROSS-CULTURAL GROUPS
Societal Values, Social Interpretation and Multinational Teams - Martha Maznevski and Mark F Peterson
Majority and Minority Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Interactions - Sharon C Goto
Self and Other - P Christopher Earley and Amy E Randel
`Face¿ and Work Group Dynamics
Cross-Cultural Barriers to Effective Communication - Judith Orasanu, Ute Fischer and Jeannie Davison
PART THREE: MANAGEMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL GROUPS
International and Intranational Diversity - Rosalie L Tung
Cross-Cultural Socialization of Asian Employees in US Organizations - Cherlyn Skromme Granrose
The Effects of Culture on Mentoring Relationships - Susan E Murphy and Ellen A Ensher
A Developmental Model
Managerial Leadership in the United States and Mexico - Peter W Dorfman and Jon P Howell
Distant Neighbors or Close Cousins?
About the author
Stuart Oskamp (Ph.D., Stanford University) has focused his research interests in the areas of attitudes and attitude change, applied social psychology, behavioral aspects of energy and resource conservation, and social issues and public policy. His books include Attitudes and Opinions and Applied Social Psychology. He has been elected a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and of the APA Division of Population and Environmental Psychology. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Social Issues and of the Applied Social Psychology Annual. Since 1984 he has organized the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology and co-edited the resulting annual volume published for many years by Sage Publications and now published by Erlbaum.
Summary
Cross-Cultural Work Groups presents the most recent research from a variety of disciplines on issues such as prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, group-think and intergroup dynamics that operate in and on cross-cultural work groups.
