Management and Culture

Open University Business School MBA B822 Creativity, Innovation and Change

• Guide
• Aims
• Introduction
• Resources for Block 4
• Assignment
• Section 1 National Culture
• Introduction
• National Values
• Groupings of cultures
• Cultural differences in approaches to problem-solving
• Chinese and UK cultures compared
• Practical Effects of Cultural Differences
• Culture and Economic Development
• Social Capital
• Fukuyama's thesis: challenge and implications
• Section 2 Roots and Context of Management
• History of Management Ideas
• Cultural Bias in Management
• American origins of management
• Japanese and German management
• Industrial Traditions
• International Swiping
• Privatization
• Development
• Section 3 Institutions
• Habits and Institutions
• What do we mean by institutions?
• Institutional theory
• Legitimacy
• Postmodernism
• Deconstruction
• Deconstructing management concepts

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