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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

From: Alice Macpherson training@kwantlen.ca

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

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

Ø Value Orientation
Sensitive Attitudes and Values

Ø Respectful Interaction
Definitions for Inclusion

Recognizing Bias

Building Community

Ø What can each person do?
Ø 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)






Jim Stoner

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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

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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Reply to: mkkleung@cityu.edu.hk
From Prof. Kwok Leung:

I am happy to let you know that I am now editing a
book series on cross-cultural management. I am now
look for proposals for edited/authored
volumes/monographs. Fresh Phd's who want to turn their
theses into monographs are welcome as well. Please
pass the word around for me about this series.
regards,
Kwok Leung

Book series on cross-cultural management
Series editor
Kwok Leung
Department of Management
City University of Hong Kong

Published by Ashgate, an UK publisher
(http://www.ashgate.com)

Aim of the series

Cross-cultural management is an emerging field that
has attracted a great deal of attention from scholars
and practitioners because of the
globalizing trends in business. International joint
ventures and alliances are now commonplace, and
multi-national operations are becoming a
standard business model. Migration patterns have also
led to increasing workplace diversity in many
countries. The issue of culture has never been so
important in the workplace, and this series intends to
help define and shape this new field by integrating
previous works and identifying
productive avenues for new research. This series is
intended for academics and graduate students in
business and related fields, and for practitioners who
want a more in-depth treatment of this topic.

This series explores cross-cultural issues in a
management context. Topics relevant to this series
include management of international joint ventures,
workplace diversity, international negotiations,
overseas assignments, and other related issues. This
series is intended to be interdisciplinary and
pluralistic, and authors from different backgrounds
are welcome. Authors who are interested in
contributing to this series should submit a proposal
to the Series Editor:

Professor Kwok Leung
Department of Management
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong
e-mail: mkkleung@cityu.edu.hk

Head
Professor of Management
Department of Management
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel (852) 2788 7969
Fax (852) 2788 9085

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Prof. Romie F. Littrell, Ph.D.
Facutly of Business, Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 1020
Auckland 1020, New Zealand
Fax (64) 9 - 917 -9629
http://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/

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