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Working Across Cultures by Hooker, John, 1949- is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Working Across Cultures about?

Cultural understanding is indispensable for people who live and work abroad or in multicultural settings, but few have appropriate knowledge and training in this area. Working Across Cultures addresses this need. Suitable for general readers yet intellectually challenging, the book illustrates how to thrive in unfamiliar cultures by understanding and tapping into the stress management mechanisms used by the people who live there. The book begins by refuting the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the level of etiquette. Distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures, the author examines the roles of authority, individualism, competition, security, negotiation, contracts, supervision, lifestyle, and even humor in different cultures. He shows how different concepts of time, space, information, and wealth shape everyday life across cultures. The book concludes with a comprehensive reading list for more than one hundred countries.

Who reads Working Across Cultures?

It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.

Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Hooker, John, 1949-
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780804748070
Category
business
Subjects
Sociology, Business, Anthropology
Rating
4.2 / 5 (10 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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