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• 4 Hofstede chapter 1

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• model of Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck - distinguishes communities

  1.An evaluation of human nature (evil/mixed/good);
  2.The relationship of man to the surrounding environment (subjugation/harmony/mastery);
  3.The orientation in time (toward past/present/future);
  4.The orientation toward activity (being/being in becoming/doing);
  5.Relationships among people (individual/collective, collateral/hierarchy).

• 5 Elenkov

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• leadership style - typology

  crossing power distance and individualism

• motivational approaches - typology

  crossing individualism and uncertainty avoidance

• performance appraisal systems - typology

  crossing individualism and political influence

• strategic planning systems

  crossing political influence and uncertainty avoidance

• 6 Faure and Fang

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• ying yang perspective

  used to capture the complexity of Chinese values

• 7 janssens & brett

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• factors influencing creative realism in Global teams

  • contextual factors (cultural precepts & unequal power)
    
  • collaboration models (fusion, dominant coalition, integration/identity)
  • teamwork task (information extraction, decision making)
    
    

  
  creative realism

• unequal power among team members focus on both:

  • power of a team member's unit in the global organization
    
  • team member's fluency with the teams common language

• defining a fusion model of team collaboration

  identifying compatibility of cultural precepts (replacing cultural precept/introducing new one/mixing)

• fusion approach to information extraction and decision making

  1. information extraction: achieved by relying on multiple subgroups that reconstitute themselves in different configurations as the team's task changes
  
  
  2. decision making: achieved by focusing on criteria of creativity and realism