Japanese Companies in Germany: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Management JAMES R. LINCOLN, HAROLD R. KERBO, and ELKE WITT'ENHAGEN* From a series of qualitative interviews with Japanese managers and German managers and workers in thirty-one Japanese-owned companies in the Dusseldorf region of western Germany, this article discusses differences in cultural patterns and organizational styles between the German and Japanese employees and the problems these pose for communication, cooperation, and morale
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TE AM FL Y Strategic Planning for Information Systems Third Edition JOHN WARD and JOE PEPPARD Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK Copyright # 2002 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD, England National 01243 779777 International (þ44) 1243 779777 e-mail (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@wiley.co.uk Visit our Home Page on http://www.wiley.co.uk or http://www.wiley.co.uk All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication
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increased interdependency of corporate strategy with human resource management (HRM), By effectively linking HRM with organizational objectives and needs, human resources can be recruited, developed, motivated and retained towards gaining a competitive advantage, i.e. strategic HRM. In this unique industry, that essentially comprises both a production and a service aspect, both the creation and the rendering of services from the hotel to the customer are primarily
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Summer Internship Program 2010 A REPORT ON “A STUDY ON COMPETENCY MAPPING FOR FRONT-LINE WORKERS “ IN ODYSSEY INDIA LIMITED” [pic] [pic] By T. Bhuvaneshwari. 09BS0000567 [pic] May 2010 A REPORT ON “A STUDY OF COMPETENCY MAPPING FOR THR FRONTLINE WORKERS IN ODYSSEY INDIA LIMITED” A report submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirement of MBA Program of IBS FACULTY GUIDE COMPANY GUIDE Mrs. Poornima Mr. Karthikeyan. S
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