The Art of Crossing Cultures
3rd Floor 303.482 S88a
This edition talks about the importance of effective interaction with people from the local cultures for various fields like business, diplomacy, the military, exchange students, and more. The opening chapter of the book talks about country shock and the difficulty in crossing cultures. This entire edition is a learning process for the reader as the book is a step-by-step process of dealing with and encountering other cultures.

Building Cross-Cultural Competence
3rd Floor 658.049 H22b
This volume argues that cultures are not "arbitrarily or randomly different from one another. They are instead mirror images of one another's values."

Can Japan Compete
3rd Floor 338.6048 P84c
The authors of the book have made a detailed analysis of Japan and its economy and described Japan as a big puzzle where competitive and non-competitive industries prevailed. They also take a look at Japan's economic policies and practices that have led to the nation's extraordinary competitiveness. This book includes extensive, empirical, and statistical research over an 8 year case study on Japan.

Communication Between Cultures
3rd Floor 303.482S19c
The authors state that this edition of the book is all about the "unique relationship between communication and culture. It also discusses events when people from different cultures come together and share feelings, ideas, and information". Basic yet conceptual topics are discussed in the book to bring out the relationship between communication and culture. These topics include culture shock, racism, power, stereotyping, and cultural diversity.

Competing Globally
3rd Floor 658.049 E37c
This volume discusses how a competitive edge in today's business can be attained only through cultural competency. The book introduces the reader to the "cultural norms of several national cultures and shows you how to compete for business success in each country".

Countries and their Cultures
1st Floor, Reference 306.03 C85c
"Each summary provides a mix of demographic, historical, social, economic, political, and religious information on the country. The emphasis is cultural; that is, the summaries focus on the ways of life of the people, and the main forces affecting them." Each country includes a map, dominant languages, history and ethnic relations, urbanism, food and economy, social stratification, political life, social welfare, gender roles and status, marriage and socialization information, etiquette, religion, health care, secular celebrations, a bibliography, and relevant Web site addresses.

Creating the Multicultural Organization
3rd Floor 658.3008 C87c
This book addresses the issues of the growing use of teams and the changing workforce that make managing workforce diversity a critical competency. The author of the book outlines effective strategies and also has a systematic five-part model to develop a more positive attitude to managing diversity.

Culture and Customs of India
1st Floor, Reference 954 G21c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of China
1st Floor, Reference 951 G97c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Ghana
1st Floor, Reference 966.7 S17c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Egypt
1st Floor, Reference 962 A79c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of El Salvador
1st Floor, Reference 306.0972 B68c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Cuba
1st Floor, Reference 972.91 L95c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Costa Rica
1st Floor, Reference 972.86 H48c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Congo
1st Floor, Reference 967.51 M95c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Peru
1st Floor, Reference 985.06 F38c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Korea
1st Floor, Reference 951.9 C592c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Jamaica
1st Floor, Reference 972.92 M83c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Japan
1st Floor, Reference 952 K15c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Haiti
1st Floor, Reference 972.94 D22c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Guatemala
1st Floor, Reference 972.88 S53c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
1st Floor, Reference 968.91 O97c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Vietnam
1st Floor, Reference 959.7 M16c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Venezuela
1st Floor, Reference 987.063 D58c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Spain
1st Floor, Reference 946.08 S79c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of Somalia
1st Floor, Reference 967.73 A13c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture and Customs of The Philippines
1st Floor, Reference 959.9 R68c
Religion, land, people, history, world view, art, literature, landscape, architecture, food, dress, women, marriage, family, festivals, leisure activities, music, dance, social customs, and lifestyles are covered in detail in this volume. Each chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.

Culture Shock
3rd Floor, Call Number Varies
This series of books covers culture and customs of many countries around the world. Each book contains a bibliography. To find this series, go to the Library Catalog and enter "culture shock" as a title.

Designing the Global Corporation
3rd Floor 658.049 G14d
This volume deals with complexity in business organizations. The focus of the book is "How does management master the old complexity of businesses, geographies, and functions and prepare to meet the new complexity of global customers and solutions?".

Doing Business in South Africa
3rd Floor q 332.67322 D65d
This resource combines entries of South American business subjects with data from tables, graphs, and charts. The major topics covered here are: the economy and business conditions, such as regional organizations, economic performance, investing, exchange control, taxation, trade regulation, the labor market, and entrepreneurship; commerce and industry, such as banking and the financial sector, property, telecommunications, industry, franchising, and marketing; and information on the new provinces, such as the Western Cape Province, the Eastern Cape Province, Free State Province, the North West Province, and the Gauteng Province.

Doing Business with Germany
3rd Floor 382.0941 D65d
This resource presents German government, corporate, and private business and industry information in a variety of tables, graphs, and charts. Other topics covered here include banking, investing, business culture, customs, trade, marketing, franchising, and government influence.

Doing Business in the Czech Republic
3rd Floor 382.0943 D65d
This is a very useful resource for those seeking in-depth business information on the Czech Republic. It deals with the economy, government administration of resources, corporate and private business, banking, investing, trade, industry, corporate structure, foreign trade and investing, franchising, and technology. The data presented is combined with a series of tables, graphs, and charts to integrate statistical information.

Essentials of International Management: A Cross-cultural Perspective
3rd Floor 658.049 T45e
This book is a guide that aids in understanding the influence of culture on management and business today. "This book extracts key concepts on international management from a cross-cultural perspective and condenses them into a concise volume." There are limited examples provided to illustrate each topic in the book. Among the different concepts discussed are selective perception, ethnocentrism, and cultural differences in motivation.

From the Outside In
3rd Floor 650.1 B64f
Diversity in the workplace is the emphasis of this book. It states that "while opportunities for advancement are increasing, paradoxically people of "difference" need more more and more help in moving from the outside in." There is a set of seven strategies for success for an employee who is not a member of the dominant group in the workplace that are explained in this book.

Global and Transnational Business
3rd Floor 658.4012 G562g
This volume discusses the meaning of globalization and its impact on huge transnational companies as well as small, local businesses. "This book sets out to challenge some of the assumptions underlying globalization and to consider approaches to strategy which, recent research suggests, are most appropriate under circumstances of hyper competition and turbulence." The first section of the book deals with the development of global and transnational strategy, whereas the second section deals with the management of global business, exploring global marketing, and international finance.

Global Brains
3rd Floor 658.049 F37g
This book adopts a very conceptual approach in trying to understand the different cultural patterns and dimensions present in the global economy. It is a useful guide that provides the reader with a set of concepts relating to the study of cultures and enables one to see how these concepts are applied in international business. Global Brains follows Friedman's theory of globalization and hence the old adage that "there is nothing as constant as change".

Global Challenge: Frameworks for International Human Resource Management
3rd Floor 658.3 E92g
"The focus of the Global Challenge is on the human resource management challenges that accompany the process of internationalization and how to operate in an interconnected world where people are the source of sustainable competitive advantage."

Global Etiquette Guide to Africa and the Middle East
3rd Floor 395.0956 F75g
This book gives tips to business people and tourists traveling to the Africa and the Middle East. The areas covered include the Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, Central and Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. It describes varying cultural differences within each region. The book also gives good advice on categories of fundamental cultural orientations, language and basic vocabulary, greetings, eye contact, behavior in public places, punctuality, dress, dining and drinking, conducting a meeting, and many others.

Global Etiquette Guide to Asia
3rd Floor 395.095 F75g
This book focuses on the correct Etiquette when doing business with Asia. The three regional areas covered are the Pacific Rim, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eurasia, and Southwest Asia and the Asian Arab World. It offers some valuable tips in fundamental cultural orientations, language and basic vocabulary, greetings, eye contact, behavior in public places, punctuality, dress, dining and drinking, conducting a meeting, and many others.

Global Etiquette Guide to Europe
3rd Floor 395.094 F75g
This edition is divided into three sections: Western Europe, Mediterranean Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe. This book provides a plethora of information on European culture and traditions. It offers some valuable tips in fundamental cultural orientations, language and basic vocabulary, greetings, eye contact, behavior in public places, punctuality, dress, dining and drinking, conducting a meeting, and many others.

Global Etiquette Guide to Mexico and Latin America
3rd Floor 395. 098 F75g
This edition provides detailed information on the culture and doing business with Latin American countries. The three areas this book cover are Meso and Centroamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. It describes the varying cultural differences within each region. The book also gives good advice on categories of fundamental cultural orientations, language and basic vocabulary, greetings, eye contact, behavior in public places, punctuality, dress, dining and drinking, conducting a meeting, and many others.

Global Teams
3rd Floor 658.4036 M35g
This volume talks about the importance of global teams in today's business world. These teams are the key to a corporation's success but if they do not address issues like the barriers of distance, culture, time, and language, the essence of teamness and collaboration is never created. According to the authors, the dynamics of global teamwork is "the electricity that lights up the global economy." Questions like how do we create teams that work well over the barriers of cultural diversity, what type of leaders are best for these teams, and how trust and motivation can be built are discussed in this book.

Intercultural Communication
3rd Floor 306 J33i
The author states that it is very necessary to understand communication among different people when "various cultural identifications affect the message use". The chapters in the book also talk about topics like culture as the medium for communication, languages, multiculturalism, and identity and subgroups. "The study of intercultural communication can be said to be about the definition of self that results from an awareness of a shared consciousness with others."

Policies and Practices in Global Human Resource Systems
3rd Floor 658.3 D812p
This book discusses the importance of globalization in today's world and how U.S. businesses are trying to improve their productivity in different domestic sectors by cutting investments in the Human Resources (HR) department. There are cases presented in the book that provide different strategies opted by various companies to try and increase their productivity that don't necessarily include investment cuts in the HR department.

Strategic Communications in Business and the Professions
3rd Floor 658.45 O36s
The authors believe that "the increasing demands of the workplace reinforce the role of communication skills as the foundation of successful professional development." It contains five three-chapter parts and they all deal with the major issues in business communication - developing basic communication and presentation skills, and changes and adaptations that occur in group communication.

Transnational Management
3rd Floor 658.049 B28t
This edition talks about basic hurdles in international business that every manager should understand and incorporate in order to survive efficiently. Issues like host country environment, cross-cultural environments, language barriers, and time barriers are all dealt with in detail by the author. The objective of this edition is "to allow teachers of international management and strategy courses to present leading-edge issues in a rich and holistic fashion that is attuned to the realities of today's complex competitive business environment".

When Cultures Collide
3rd Floor 658.049 L67w
Most countries of the world are covered in this volume. Culture, values, religion, communication patterns, behavior at meetings, and manners are included.

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