Cross-Cultural Work Groups: (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology)

How can culture influence the way a group operates? What happens when members of different cultural groups interact in a common work group? What impact do relationships among different cultural groups in society at large have on intra- and intergroup relationships within organizations? What management practices promote effective cross-cultural work groups? Cross-cultural work groups are a reality in most contemporary organizations, yet the research into them has been dispersed among a variety of disciplines. This volume, the tenth in a series of books growing out of the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, pulls together findings from several disciplines and presents the most recent research available on cross-cultural work groups. It explores issues that are often present when different cultural groups are brought together, including prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, and intergroup dynamics. Scholarship in this area has traditionally emphasized studies of homogeneous groups or studies of diverse groups that ignore the effects of cultural differences on group interaction; however, the contributions in this volume avoid these pitfalls and look squarely at the forces operating on groups comprising persons from varied cultures.

Table of Contents:
Cross-Cultural Work Groups - Cherlyn Skromme Granrose and Stuart Oskamp An Overview PART ONE: CULTURAL GROUP INTERACTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS Individual and Group Relations in Plural Societies - John W Berry Change and Continuity in Organizations - Fathali M Moghaddam Assessing Intergroup Relations PART TWO: INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN CROSS-CULTURAL GROUPS Societal Values, Social Interpretation and Multinational Teams - Martha Maznevski and Mark F Peterson Majority and Minority Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Interactions - Sharon C Goto Self and Other - P Christopher Earley and Amy E Randel `Face′ and Work Group Dynamics Cross-Cultural Barriers to Effective Communication - Judith Orasanu, Ute Fischer and Jeannie Davison PART THREE: MANAGEMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL GROUPS International and Intranational Diversity - Rosalie L Tung Cross-Cultural Socialization of Asian Employees in US Organizations - Cherlyn Skromme Granrose The Effects of Culture on Mentoring Relationships - Susan E Murphy and Ellen A Ensher A Developmental Model Managerial Leadership in the United States and Mexico - Peter W Dorfman and Jon P Howell Distant Neighbors or Close Cousins?

About the Author :
Stuart Oskamp (Ph.D., Stanford University) has focused his research interests in the areas of attitudes and attitude change, applied social psychology, behavioral aspects of energy and resource conservation, and social issues and public policy. His books include Attitudes and Opinions and Applied Social Psychology. He has been elected a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and of the APA Division of Population and Environmental Psychology. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Social Issues and of the Applied Social Psychology Annual. Since 1984 he has organized the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology and co-edited the resulting annual volume published for many years by Sage Publications and now published by Erlbaum.