Managing across cultures

1. Video study – different people, different cultures, different personalities
2. The bipolarity of cultures - a truefalse idea
3. Ceremonial and unceremonious behaviors – what do we prefer
4. Comparison - the only opportunity to observe cultural differences
5. Understanding culture through one-hundred-page and five-word definitions
6. The iceberg of culture - visible and invisible products of culture
7. What makes us who we are – national culture, regional culture, corporate culture, personality
8. Stereotypes, dreams and nightmares
9. The journey through the dimensions of national culture
10. Analysis of ed national cultures
11. Corporate culture - cultures in culture
12. Two-dimensional analysis of corporateculture
13. The eight dimensions of organizational culture
14. The basic principle of diversity – team building done wrong
15. Different styles of communication
16. High and low context
17. Peaches and coconuts
18. International Negotiations – the three broad cultural types
19. One on one and team negotiations
20. Choosing players and distributing roles for team negotiations
21. Africa, Asia, South America – opportunitythreat
22. Leaders of the new world
23. Gaffes, blunders and taboos
24. The ‘Big Five’ of personality traits – self-awareness of our strengths and limitations
25. Making decisions, giving feedback, apologizing in different cultures
26. What do they think about US, what do we think about THEM
27. How beautifully different we are
28. Case studies, texts and video case