Offshore outsourcing a n d teams working across national borders have become a fact. Management experiences difficulties when applying traditional management approaches, because of the increased complexity of global organizations and global partnerships and their dependency on people with different underlying norms, values and beliefs. Cultural sensitivity is a core issue. Trust, an issue embed...

the formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. this is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. this may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. but it’s important t...

This paper examined the relationship between HRM practices and organiza-tional culture in private sector organizations operating in India. Organizational culture hasdeveloped in the Indian environment along with global work values. This study is based ona survey of 95 respondents working in two private sector organizations. Although the HRMpractices in these organizations differ...

We analyze the dynamics toward cultural consensus in the Axelrod model on scale-free networks. By looking at the microscopic dynamics of the model, we are able to show how culture traits spread across different cultural features. We compare the diffusion at the level of cultural features to the growth of cultural consensus at the global level, finding important differences between these two pro...

© International Association for Applied Psychology, 2004. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. Oxford, UK APPS pplied Psychology: an International Review 0269-994X © Blackwell Publishing 2004 ct ber 2004 53 4 riginal Arti le DYNAMIC, MULTI-LEVEL MODEL OF CULTURE EREZ and GATI A Dynamic,...