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MG-ED-DV Digest - 4 Feb 2003 to 5 Feb 2003 (#2003-33)

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    There are 4 messages totalling 288 lines in this issue.

    Topics of the day:

    1. managing and ?motivating? employees from different cultures. (2)
    2. 90 minutes? Re: managing and ?motivating? employees from different
    cultures.
    3. San Francisco in September -- Academy of Business Education Paper Call

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    Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:05:55 -0500
    From: Jim Stoner <stoner@fordham.edu>
    Subject: managing and ?motivating? employees from different cultures.

    Dear Folks on the OBTS and MG-ED-DV lists -

    I have an invitation to do a 90 minute (hopefully experiential) session
    with five middle to somewhat upper-level Japanese managers participating in
    a five week executive development program (in Japan, where I am at
    present).

    Their request is pretty much as follows:

    1. Give them an experience of what it will FEEL like to struggle with some
    of the difficulties of managing and ?motivating? employees from different
    cultures. (The different cultures are not specified.) They say they have
    a pretty good intellectual idea about what the difficulties might be, but
    they have not yet wrestled with this issue in person and so they?d like
    more of an ?in-the-gut? (my phrasing) experience rather than just talk
    about it.

    2. Give them some ideas about what they might do to be more effective in
    managing and motivating people from different cultures.

    That is pretty much the invitation I have.

    3. They are a hard working (and bright) bunch, so something they could
    read before or after the session would probably also be appreciated (and
    even read!!) by them.

    If you have some ideas about how I might make some sort of contribution to
    them in 90 minutes (I am told I can run longer if I wish), please send my
    your ideas at two addresses: stoner@fordham.edu and stoner@iuj.ac.jp.
    (My Fordham email system can be a bit erratic.)

    If I end up doing anything that turns out not to be too noxious, I?ll
    report on it to the list.

    (Of course, if you have ideas you think everyone on the list would find
    interesting, you are - as always - welcome to reply to the whole list.

    Warm regards,

    Jim

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    Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:54:27 -0500
    From: Charles Wankel <wankelc@optonline.net>
    Subject: Re: managing and ?motivating? employees from different cultures.

    From: Alice Macpherson training@kwantlen.ca=20

    Jim et al,

    I did a short (and 90 minutes is SHORT) piece on cross cultural
    communications (usually I'm doing 3 - 12 hours on this and related
    subjects.

    The process was highly interactive. My agenda was:


    Cross Cultural Communications



    Short Session, 2003



    AGENDA

    Your Culture

    =D8 What is it?
    =D8 What do you Value?
    =D8 What do others think of it?
    Dimensions Of Culture

    =D8 Value Orientation
    Sensitive Attitudes and Values

    =D8 Respectful Interaction
    Definitions for Inclusion

    Recognizing Bias

    Building Community

    =D8 What can each person do?
    =D8 What will you do?


    If any of this is of interest contact me and I can give more details.

    best regards


    Alice Macpherson
    PLA Coordinator
    Kwantlen University College
    604 599-2426

    "Different is not always better, but better is always different. You
    can't be better by being the same." ? Dale Dauten (1991)




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    Dear Folks on the OBTS and MG-ED-DV lists -

    I have an invitation to do a 90 minute (hopefully experiential) session
    with five middle to somewhat upper-level Japanese managers participating
    in
    a five week executive development program (in Japan, where I am at
    present).

    Their request is pretty much as follows:

    1. Give them an experience of what it will FEEL like to struggle with
    some
    of the difficulties of managing and ?motivating? employees from
    different
    cultures. (The different cultures are not specified.) They say they
    have
    a pretty good intellectual idea about what the difficulties might be,
    but
    they have not yet wrestled with this issue in person and so they?d like
    more of an ?in-the-gut? (my phrasing) experience rather than just talk
    about it.

    2. Give them some ideas about what they might do to be more effective =
    in
    managing and motivating people from different cultures.

    That is pretty much the invitation I have.

    3. They are a hard working (and bright) bunch, so something they could
    read before or after the session would probably also be appreciated (and
    even read!!) by them.

    If you have some ideas about how I might make some sort of contribution
    to
    them in 90 minutes (I am told I can run longer if I wish), please send =
    my
    your ideas at two addresses: stoner@fordham.edu and stoner@iuj.ac.jp.
    (My Fordham email system can be a bit erratic.)

    If I end up doing anything that turns out not to be too noxious, I?ll
    report on it to the list.

    (Of course, if you have ideas you think everyone on the list would find
    interesting, you are - as always - welcome to reply to the whole list.

    Warm regards,

    Jim

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    Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:20:46 +0000
    From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Romie=20Littrell?= <littrellaom@yahoo.co.nz>
    Subject: 90 minutes? Re: managing and ?motivating? employees from different
    cultures.

    I agree with most of the comments that 90 minutes is
    far too little time. An easy exercise would be to
    show a copy of the English-language version of the
    movie "BLACK RAIN" and have your group pick out the
    Western movie-maker misconceptions about Japanese
    culture.
    Regards,
    Romie Littrell

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    Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:58:02 -0500
    From: Bill Ferris <bferris@wnec.edu>
    Subject: San Francisco in September -- Academy of Business Education Paper
    Call

    Hello all

    Come to San Francisco on September 18-20, 2003 for the national
    conference of the Academy of Business Education! You need only submit a
    1-2 page abstract by February 14th, though you may submit a complete
    paper if you wish. Publication for your multidisciplinary submission in
    the Journal of the Academy of Business Education is a possibility.

    MED stalwarts like Jim Stoner (Fordham) and Kathy Kane (USF) are on the
    Board of Directors of ABE. I am the President and I encourage you to
    submit on an interdisciplinary business education topic. We are the
    only business education national conference where you will find numbers
    of colleagues from all business disciplines. Follow the link below for
    more information: abe.villanova.edu.

    Best,
    Bill
    --

    William P. Ferris

    Professor of Management

    School of Business

    Western New England College

    1215 Wilbraham Road

    Springfield, MA 01119



    Tel: 413-782-1629

    Fax: 413-796-2068

    e-mail: bferris@wnec.edu

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