Fons Trompenaars is an author in the field of cross-cultural communication. His books include: Riding the Waves of Culture, Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication) is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds endeavour to communicate. ...
Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner have developed a model of culture with seven dimensions: This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ...
universalism vs particularism (what is more important - rules or relationships?)
individualism vs communitarianism (do we function in a group or as an individual?)
neutral vs affective (do we display our emotions? )
specific vs diffuse (how far do we get involved?)
achieved status vs ascribed status (do we have to prove ourselves to receive status or is it given to us? )
time orientation (do we do things one at a time or several things at once? )
past- / present- / future-orientatedness
sequential time vs synchronic time
internal vs external orientation (do we control our environment or work with it ?)
FonsTrompenaars, the Dutch-born cultural management guru and author (who grew up with a French mother) has seen this transformation in business and understands the cultural dilemmas that confront managers every day.
Trompenaars describes a manager who has "been there" as irreplaceable, simply because one must have first-hand experience in a culture to understand it.
As Trompenaars explains, "In this case, the assessor is as important as the assessee.
Trompenaars studied economics at the Free University of Amsterdam and earned a PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
In 1989, Dr. Trompenaars became managing director of the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management.
Trompenaars also coauthored, with C.M. Hampden-Turner, Seven Cultures of Capitalism (Doubleday, 1993), Building Cross-Cultural Competence (Yale University Press, 2000), and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
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