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.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Multicultural Environment and Intercultural Interactions – Theoretical and Research Framework.- Understanding Organizational Intercultural Interactions in Corporations.- Positive Cross-Cultural Scholarship Research.- Cognition of the Multicultural Work Environment in Multinational Corporations and Intercultural Interaction Outcomes.- Cultural Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Dynamic Organizational Environments.- Intercultural Interactions in Traditional and Positive Perspectives.- From Linnaeus to Darwin. From Cultural Grid to “Going Native”.- Part II: Intercultural Interactions in Multicultural Environment – Intra and Inter-organizational Perspectives.- Individual Resources and Intercultural Interactions.- Thriving in a Multicultural Workplace.- Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in the Multicultural Workplace.- Managing Innovation in Multicultural Environments: An Imperative of Responsibility within Interorganizational Networks.- Social Capital, Trust and Intercultural Interactions.- A Cultural Perspective on the Emergence of Organizational Trust.- Fostering Internationalization through Networks: an Inter-organizational Psychic Distance.- Part III: Individuals and Interactions in Multicultural Environments – the Expanded Perspective.- Workaholism and Individual Work Performance in Lithuanian and German Financial Sector Multinational Corporations: Differences between Generations X and Y.- Expatriate vs. Self-initiated Expatriate in the Multicultural Workplace of MNCs.- How to Educate Multicultural Managers? The Example of Luxembourg.- Intra-organizational Negotiations as Cross-Cultural Interactions.- Knowledge Sharing in MNCs.- Cultural Factors Influencing the Knowing of a Multinational Company.