David C Thomas

The Multicultural Mind

Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

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Produktbeschreibung

Globalization has created a superheated competitive business environment that demands innovation to stay ahead. But it's also created a hidden source of innovation right in your midst: the people in your organization who have deep experience in more than one culture-multiculturals. Having to integrate different cultural frameworks has enabled them to develop abilities that can contribute powerfully to building innovative organizations. David Thomas makes a compelling business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity-the diversity within individuals! He looks at how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish and shows how even the most monocultural among us can gain the advantages of a multicultural mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781626561014
• ISBN-10: 162656101X
• Artikelnr.: 42858207

Autorenporträt

David C. Thomas is the Beedie Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the award-winning Cross-Cultural Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introducing Multiculturals
1. A Resource Hiding in Plain Sight: Multiculturals and Innovation
2. Why Mexicans Speak Spanish: Sources of Cultural Identity
3. “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child”: How Confronting Cultural
Differences Results in a Multicultural Mind
Part II: Understanding Multiculturals
4. Neoricans, Mexican-Americans, and Catalan Spanish: The Many Ways in
Which Individuals Experience and Manage Their Multiculturalism
5. “Singing Sea Chanteys Does Not Make You a Sailor”: Language and
Multiculturalism in an Organizational Context
6. “Where Are You from--Really?” Observable Differences and Developing a
Multicultural Mind
Part III: Leveraging the Multicultural Mind
7. “I Am Feeling Very Olympic Today, How about You?” The Influence of the
Situation on Multiculturals and Innovation
8. “I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends”: Multiculturals’ Roles and
Teams in Organizations
9. “The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few”: Leveraging the
Skills of Multiculturals and Building an Innovative Organization
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author