The Oxford Handbook of Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior

The process of globalization has brought into focus the central role of culture in understanding work behavior. In parallel to the accelerating process of globalization, there has been an explosion of empirical studies on culture and organizational behavior. The Oxford Handbook of Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior integrates this research into one coherent framework with a rich collection of chapters that highlight the role of culture at the multi-levels of the organization, from the individual level to the meso-level of the social group, the macro-level of the organization, and up to the global work culture. Written by a diverse group of experts in the field, this handbook provides critical knowledge on how cultures vary, and how culture influences basic psychological processes, communication, trust, social networks, leadership, and negotiation. It also covers how to manage multicultural teams, culture and human resource management practices, joint ventures, organizational change, and more. In order to be effective in the emerging global economy, managers need to be able to interact effectively across cultures, and this handbook provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject on the market.

About the Author

Michele J. Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. She has won numerous awards for her scholarship and been published in outlets such as Science , the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , among others. Gelfand is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series at Oxford Unviersity Press and the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World . Miriam Erez is Professor Emeritus in Organizational Psychology and Management, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology . She is the Vice Dean of the MBA program and Founder, and Chair of the Knowledge Center for Innovation, Technion. Erez's research areas are innovation and entrepreneurship, cross-cultural, global organizational behavior, and work motivation. She has authored two books, co-edited four books, and published over 100 journal papers and book chapters. She serves as the Vice-Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows Group.