Fons Trompenaars

Trompenaars Hampden-Turner

Early attempts at inter-organizational collaboration based around EDI (electronic data interchange) were a worthy attempt to derive benefits to both parties. Although some performance and cost-saving advantages have been realized, it has taken time to recognize the origins of many of the challenges that continue to surface. Developing a relational...

The Culture and Inter-cultural Communication Edubook focuses on teaching and applying inter-cultural skills and competences. Learners develop a way of thinking that can be applied in any inter-cultural situation. The learning resource is relevant to any student or professional who deals with cultural differences and people from other cultural gro...

Fons Trompenaars et Jerome Dumetz se penchent sur les principaux défis et dilemmes auxquels nos sociétés sont confrontées en raison de la propagation du Coronavirus COVID-19. Ils sont fermement convaincus que les dilemmes causés par Cornavirus sont partagés par tous mais que les approches de réconciliation sont culturellement définies, et que les r...

A new paradigm for the management of change is proposed. Most existing frameworks tend to want to discard the current situation in favour of a new corporate culture, thus discarding the best of what already exists. The authors argue that changing an organisation’s culture is a contradiction in terms. This is because cultures act to preserve themsel...

This book provides professionals with an easy reference resource for successfully implementing a performance management system in a multinational company. Providing research-based strategies for reconciling the global-local dilemma is the focus of the book. The authors explore principles drawn from extensive research in human resources and cross-cu...

A leadership blueprint for managing cross-cultural issues in any M&A deal In our rapidly expanding and increasingly volatile global economy, mergers and acquisitions are becoming the strategy of choice for businesses seeking to stimulate growth while managing risk. As more and more M&A deals are struck between global organizations, difficult new is...

Cross-Cultural Management Textbook is an easy-to-read course-book that synthesizes in a practical way contemporary cross-cultural communication and management knowledge for students and professionals. A collective work, it brings together twelve respected world authorities, renowned practitioners or academics. The textbook is designed to prepare r...

Power management may be on the way out as the bias changes from tough leadership to a more inclusive style. Companies that implement servant-leadership are very successful as a result. How is it that servant-leadership succeeds where the unilateral power model fails in combining opposites? The answer can be found in the double focus of a servant-le...

Establishing an effective link between corporate strategy and employee performance has traditionally been seen as a function of organizational structure and internal marketing—that is, of getting the right compensation systems in place to reward the desired behavior, and relentlessly communicating the strategy to all employees. But, according to th...

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To minimise conflict between cultures, you must first analyse - measure even - the differences between them. That is the starting point for the third 1996 Stockton Lecture, reproduced here. The author identifies seven dimensions by which cultures can be distinguished from each otherwhich he defines as: Universalism versus Particularism; Collectivis...

Are claims to describe and measure cultural intelligence credible? Three major objections are discussed: (a) Cultures are said to be entirely relative in their values, so holding one culture to be more intelligent than another is discriminatory; (b) cultural studies are said to be a form of postmodernism, whereas to have one central definition of c...

Trompenaars, Our western business education has given ample food to the denial of any dilemmas in business. These are not what they teach in business education. Reality is put on a line and, depending on the circumstances, you choose the most effective position on that line. Geert Hofstede is the most cited social scientist in the Netherlands. Over...

A new paradigm for the management of change is proposed. Most existing frameworks tend to want to discard the current situation in favour of a new corporate culture, thus discarding the best of what already exists. The authors argue that changing an organisation's culture is a contradiction in terms. This is because cultures act to preserve themsel...

This study investigated the extent to which reported gender differences in values are attributable to differences in national culture and organizational seniority. Locus of control and affectivity scores were obtained from 4599 managers and employees in business organizations located in 14 countries. Across nations, men and those in senior position...

Geert Hofstede attacked the work van Fons Trompenaars in the spring issue of the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (volume 20, no. 2, pp. 189-198). We are not even remotely interested in a counterattack or attributing to Hofstede the motives attributed to Trompenaars. We don't know what Hofstede's motives are, any more than he knows...

The values of 8,841 managers and organization employees from 43 countries were surveyed. The range of nations included paralleled many of those surveyed by Hofstede (1980) but added also substantial samples from ex-communist nations. Questionnaire items focused primarily on measures of universalism-particularism, achievement-ascription, and individ...

A databank of 9140 responses to the Rotter (1966) locus of control scale was analyzed, using multidimensional scaling techniques. Respondents were employees in business organizations in 43 countries. Three interpretable dimensions were identified. The first was interpreted in terms of Schwartz's (1992) dimensions of mastery over the environment ver...

Fons Trompenaars is the Managing Director of the Centre for International Business and his book, Riding the Waves of Culture , is concerned with attempting to further the understanding of cultural diversity in business, particularly international business. His analysis is based on extensive research involving 15,000 employees in 50 countries, in wh...

Esta obra se refiere a las diferencias culturales dentro de una empresa y cómo estas afectan los procesos para hacer negocios y administrar las empresas.

The subject of human resource management (HRM) and its development has been much contested in the literature. Most of the relevant theories originated in the United States of America. There is in the literature no distinctly ‘European’ approach to HRM and, indeed, our knowledge of comparative HRM practices in different European states is limited. T...

Traducción de: The seven cultures of capitalism Incluye bibliografía Se exploran los valores éticos y culturales asociados con el desarrollo social y el éxito económico en 7 países desarrollados: EUA, Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania, Japón, Suecia y los Países Bajos.