By P. Christopher Earley, Soon Angcheck holdings in CityU LibraryFind
In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves quickly in new cultures. Effective strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing businesses.
Current theories in management and psychology do not provide adequate frameworks to explain the successes or failures of people working and managing in foreign cultures. In this book, the authors develop the idea of cultural intelligence and examine its three essential facets: cognition, the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues; motivation, the desire and ability to engage others; and behavior, the capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation.
In their presentation of this new conceptual framework, the authors provide a critical review of the existing literature. They explore the fundamental nature of cultural intelligence and its relationship to other frameworks of intelligence.
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提起高錕教授，即時會想起他的光纖、寬頻通訊等科學技術上的成就。本書是作者的七十自述，除了讓讀者一覽他闖蕩世界科技文明、周遊列國的廣闊人生之外，還與讀者分享他對人、對世界的開闊視野。“潮平岸闊”既可以用來形容今天的寬頻傳送，何嘗不是作者生命形態的最佳寫照。《潮平岸闊─高錕自述》裡的高錕，不止“光纖之父”一面。本書共十五章，首章先寫與廝守四十多年的夫人美芸相識相遇，及後共結連理的生活細節，隨之倒敘童年往事，以及鮮有詳細披露的留學生活。
What actually is creativity? And what contributes to its conceptualization and development? For decades, these and other questions have fascinated researchers, educators, parents and laymen alike, and equally so in the East and West. The present collection of chapters is a continuous attempt in answering and exploring the above questions from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Readers may find some answers satisfactory, whereas others bewildering. This is in fact the reality of creativity research and education.
A Gentle Guide to Research Methods explains what research is, and guides you through choosing and using the method best suited to your needs, with detailed examples from a wide range of disciplines. It also gives you practical "nuts and bolts" advice about how to avoid classic problems and how to get the most out of your project.
思維是人類發展的動力。然而，我們絕對不能自滿於這項最重要的技巧。無論我們的思維方式多好，仍然需要精益求精。……
