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OverviewThis book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions. It presents cultural and theoretical knowledge on Chinese and African management, leadership, and philosophy. Chinese and African scholars and professionals share their insights into how to address intercultural management challenges proactively and successfully. The cases provide insights into a wide variety of industries and offer actual scenarios studied in governmental, parastatal, and private Chinese-owned organizations in twelve African countries. This book will benefit a broad readership including scholars in employment relations and business management as well as African and Chinese collaborators in academia, government, NGOs and industry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claude-Hélène Mayer , Lynette Louw , Christian Martin BonessPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.478kg ISBN: 9783030251840ISBN 10: 3030251845 Pages: 249 Publication Date: 08 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Part I: Cultural Insights into Chinese-African Management Chapter 1 Introduction Claude-Hélène Mayer Chapter 2 Chinese Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management Zhaoyi Liu Chapter 3 African Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management Samukele Hadebe and Dion Nkomo Part II: Intercultural Training Cases: Dealing With International Communication, Cooperation and Negotiation Chapter 4 Case 1: Dealing With Organisational Strategies in the Tanzanian-Chinese Chalinze Water Project Christian Martin Boness Chapter 5 Case 2: “Not who I am, not what I mean”: Intercultural Communication in Chinese-African Interactions Fungai B Chigwendere Chapter 6 Case 3: Dealing With Organisational Structures, Decision-making and Participation in the Zambian Textile Industry Christian Martin Boness, Naiming Wei and Claude-Hélène Mayer Chapter 7 Case 4: A Negotiation Between Chinese and African Organisations in Namibia Haiyan Zhang, Chen Ni and Liusheng Wang Chapter 8 Case 5: How to Make Friends in Rwanda: A Chinese Tea Ceremony Christian Martin Boness Part III: Intercultural Training Cases: Entrepreneurship, Management Styles, Language and Identity Chapter 9 Case 6: Setting Up Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMES) by Chinese Entrepreneurial Immigrants in Maputo, Mozambique Mattheus Johannes Louw, Lynette Louw. and Fiona Geyser Chapter 10 Case 7: Managing a Chinese-Angolan National Housing Project in Angola’s Capital, Luanda Christian Martin Boness, Naiming Wei and Claude-Hélène Mayer Chapter 11 Case 8: Language, Culture, and Power in the Chinese-South African Telecommunications Sector June Sun Chapter 12 Case 9: Transforming Employee Conflicts in a Chinese Construction Firm in Kampala, Uganda Sidney Muhangi Part IV: Intercultural Training Cases: International Human Resource Management Chapter 13 Case 10: Sharing Knowledge in a Sudanese Oil Refinery Through Cultural and Language Trainings Christian Martin Boness Chapter 14 Case 11: Working Conditions in a Chinese-Ugandan Communications Company Christian Martin Boness and Naiming Wei Chapter 15 Case 12: Managing a Chinese-South African Restaurant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa Zhaoyi Liu Part V: Intercultural Training Cases: Management Practices and Employment Relations Chapter 16 Case 13: Employee Perceptions of a Chinese Heavy Machinery Importing Organisation Operating in Uganda Lynette Louw, Katherine Burger and Mattheus Johannes Louw Chapter 17 Case 14: Hiring and Firing in the Chinese-Zimbabwean Mining Industry Christian Martin Boness Chapter 18 Case 15: Managing Chinese-Cameroonian Daily Interactions in a Company in Douala, Cameroon Jocelyne Kenne Kenne Chapter 19 Case 16: A Cross-cultural Conference in the Mozambique Confucius Institute Christian Martin Boness and Naiming WeiReviewsAuthor InformationClaude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research areas are transcultural management, mental health and well-being, women in leadership, transformation of emotions, shame and psychobiography. Christian Martin Boness is an Associated Researcher at the Department of Management, Rhodes University, South Africa. Lynette Louw is the Raymond Ackerman Chair of Management and current Deputy Dean, Faculty of Commerce at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her areas of specialty and research include strategic management, organisational behaviour, and cross-cultural management Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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