Intercultural Interactions in the Multicultural Workplace: Traditional and Positive Organizational Scholarship (Contributions to Management Science)

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the challenges in multicultural workplaces, the positives of interactions, cultural clashes and their organizational preconditions. They add inter-organizational, institutional and critical perspectives to the analysis within the framework of multinationals and complex, hybrid cultural environments. The book addresses the needs of researchers in the areas of intercultural management, and those of practitioners in international human resource management. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Understanding Organizational Intercultural Interactions in Corporations....Pages 3-17 Positive Cross-Cultural Scholarship Research....Pages 19-35 Cognition of the Multicultural Work Environment in Multinational Corporations and Intercultural Interaction Outcomes....Pages 37-51 Cultural Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Dynamic Organizational Environments....Pages 53-69 Intercultural Interactions in Traditional and Positive Perspectives....Pages 71-85 From Linnaeus to Darwin. From Cultural Grid to “Going Native”....Pages 87-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Individual Resources and Intercultural Interactions....Pages 97-107 Thriving in a Multicultural Workplace....Pages 109-121 Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in the Multicultural Workplace....Pages 123-135 Managing Innovation in Multicultural Environments: An Imperative of Responsibility Within Interorganizational Networks....Pages 137-154 Social Capital, Trust and Intercultural Interactions....Pages 155-171 A Cultural Perspective on the Emergence of Organizational Trust....Pages 173-188 Fostering Internationalization Through Networks: An Inter-organizational Psychic Distance Perspective....Pages 189-202 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Workaholism and Individual Work Performance in Lithuanian and German Financial Sector Multinational Corporations: Differences Between Generations X and Y....Pages 205-226 Expatriate vs. Self-initiated Expatriate in the Multicultural Workplace of MNCs....Pages 227-250 How to Educate Multicultural Managers? The Example of Luxembourg....Pages 251-265 Intra-organizational Negotiations as Cross-Cultural Interactions....Pages 267-282 Knowledge Sharing in MNCs....Pages 283-295 Cultural Factors Influencing the Knowing of a Multinational Company....Pages 297-312