Eastern And Cross Cultural Management (Management For Professionals),Used

Product Description This pathbreaking book liberates management thinking from a century of Western subjugation. It is a comparative exposition of culture and management styles in India, Japan, China and major Western countries. There is a need to protect and sustain each countrys identity and positive strengths in values while interlinking global business with cross cultural empathy. The book explores profiles of culturemanagement axis through secondary literature study in various languages of the East, empirical research conducted with nearly one thousand managers and 375 organizations in India. The effective management in the next millennium will be missionbased strategic integration of the team, combined with peoplesensitive approach. In spite of growth of hitech, the emotional human issues will dominate the coming decades. Happiness and health in institutions will largely depend on successive sacrifice of greed and possessiveness in creation of wealth for human development. The meltdown in the US and its repercussions in the world are direct outcome of failure to learn these lessons. Already the world is witnessing acute consciousness of interdependence and universal linkages. This is the quintessence of Vedanta, ZenBuddhism and Sufi order in the Eastern globe. Westdominated management technology must now synthesize with Eastern intuition and values. The book is divided into three parts: First part delves into EastWest psyche; second part presents IntegrationAffection Model as potential approach to effective Management. Third part shows the authors successful applications of the approach in different organizations while working as Chief Executive or Consultant. From the Back Cover This pathbreaking book liberates management thinking from a century of Western subjugation. It is a comparative exposition of culture and management styles in India, Japan, China and major Western countries. There is a need to protect and sustain each countrys identity and positive strengths in values while interlinking global business with cross cultural empathy. The book explores profiles of culturemanagement axis through secondary literature study in various languages of the East, empirical research conducted with nearly one thousand managers and 375 organizations in India. The effective management in the next millennium will be missionbased strategic integration of the team, combined with peoplesensitive approach. In spite of growth of hitech, the emotional human issues will dominate the coming decades. Happiness and health in institutions will largely depend on successive sacrifice of greed and possessiveness in creation of wealth for human development. The meltdown in the US and its repercussions in the world are direct outcome of failure to learn these lessons. Already the world is witnessing acute consciousness of interdependence and universal linkages. This is the quintessence of Vedanta, ZenBuddhism and Sufi order in the Eastern globe. Westdominated management technology must now synthesize with Eastern intuition and values. The book is divided into three parts: First part delves into EastWest psyche; second part presents IntegrationAffection Model as potential approach to effective Management. Third part shows the authors successful applications of the approach in different organizations while working as Chief Executive or Consultant. About the Author Prof N. K. Singh had been a Management Advisor with UNDP Headquarters in New York and studied key issues in performance, including human resource development and institutional effectiveness in the SubSaharan countries. A report on Human Resources and Institutional development was prepared by him along with a team of Consultants from other UN agencies and has been published by UNDP. Earlier, as Management Advisor with International Civil Aviation organization (ICAO), he did research and consultancy during 198991 for the governments of Tanz