Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition by Geert H. Hofstede
This book relies on research carried out in additional than seventy countries over a forty-yr span, CULTURES AND ORGANIZATIONS examines what drives people apart-when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of knowledge from the World Values Survey, in addition to an account of the evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, this revised and expanded version:
·Reveals the “ethical circles” from which national societies are built and the unexamined rules by which people suppose, feel, and act
·Explores how nationwide cultures differ within the areas of inequality, assertiveness versus modesty, and tolerance for ambiguity
·Explains how organizational cultures differ from national cultures-and how they are often managed
·Analyzes stereotyping, differences in language, cultural roots of the 2008 economic crisis, and different intercultural dynamics
Now for the primary time in paperback, Geert Hofstede's examine of the "SOFTWARE OF THE MIND" helps us take a look at how we think-also at how we fail to assume as members of groups. Drawing on many years of rigorous research, the writer reveals the unexamined guidelines by which we live and work together. Melding unswerving mental braveness and arduous social, cultural, and organizational research, Hofstede shapes a sobering picture of a world perilously lacking in self-data-unaware of great distinction between the teams that populate our planet and appallingly oblivious to the hidden "packages" that govern the behavior of cultures in a time of skyrocketing global contact.
But culture shock-whether the surprising contact is between an individual and a new nation, between organizations, between the sexes, or between opposing diplomats-will be turned to our advantage, Hofstede says-if we understand it. And understanding is what this work is all about. This is a book that every considering person will wish to read. Broad in scope, profoundly authentic in thought and profoundly vital, it offers important data and perception on issues that may form the way forward for our individual and collective lives. and profoundly
