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Cross-Cultural Leadership
Fall 2004
Topics
- Introduction and Overview
- Cultural Styles
- Social Dimensions
- Orientation to Time and Space
- Leadership Effectiveness
Readings
- Cross-cultural Dialogue Trompenaars, Fons, and Charles Hampden-Turner. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Global Business . 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998, pp. 1-10, 29-37, 49-53, 68-75, 80-82, 105-111, 121-122. ISBN: 0786311258.
- Cross-cultural Dialogue Javidan, Mansour, and Robert J. House. “Cultural Acumen for the Global Manager: Lessons from Project GLOBE.” Organizational Dynamics 29, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 289-304.
- House, Robert J., Paul J. Hanges, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfman, and Vipin Gupta. Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies . Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, 2004, pp. 410-411, 365-366, 622-623, 539-540, 250-251, 573-574. ISBN: 0761924019.
- Schneider, Susan, and Jean-Louis Barsoux. Managing Across Cultures . 2nd ed. Essex, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2003, pp. 87-95.
- Cross-cultural Dialogue Trompenaars, Fons, and Charles Hampden-Turner. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Global Business . 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998, pp. 123-128, 132-144. ISBN: 0786311258.
- Gesteland, Richard R. Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: Marketing, Negotiating and Managing across Cultures . 2nd ed. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999, pp. 55-62. ISBN: 8763000253.
- Critique of Course Kouzes, James, and Barry Posner. The Leadership Challenge . 3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, pp. 13-22, 24-25. ISBN: 0787956783.
- Goleman, Daniel. “Leadership that Gets Results.” Harvard Business Review , March-April 2000, pp. 78-90.
- Derr, C. Brooklyn, Sylvie Roussillon, and Frank Bournois. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership Development . Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 2002, pp. 290-292. ISBN: 156720466X.
- Graham, John L. and N. Mark Lam. “The Chinese Negotiation.” Harvard Business Review , October 2003, pp. 82-91.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.