Product Description: Behind the mask of objective science lie the dynamics of what happens to scientists who go to live and work in another culture. Those who work and study in an alien culture often find themselves changed in ways that affect their scientific work...read more

Product Description: In recent years China has witnessed unprecedented economic growth, emerging as a powerful, influential player on the global stage. Now, more than ever, there is a great interest and need within the West to better understand the psychological and social processes that characterize the Chinese people...read more

This state-of-the-art Handbook encompasses theoretical and empirical research on Chinese organizational behavior over the last two decades of its renaissance, with prominent scholars providing critical reviews of empirical studies in Chinese societies on 14 important topics. This comprehensive Handbook explores limitations and challenges arising from attempts to develop indigenous theories and constructs applicable to Chinese social reality. Key contributors integrate the literature in their topic areas, providing directions for pushing forward the frontiers of research into a more culturally sensitive and powerful representation of Chinese organizational behavior. Areas examined include emotional intelligence, creativity and motivation, leadership, team conflicts, trust, power and business ethics. Experienced practitioner input is included. Scholars interested in research on international business and Chinese work behaviors and their effective management will find much of value in this compilation. Students of management, including organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, and international management will also find information and guidance that will prove invaluable as will practitioners who have business connections in China and other Chinese societies. Contributors: S. Aryee, M.H. Bond, P. Cardona, C.C. Chen, N.Y. Chen, X.-P. Chen, Z.X. Chen, F.M.-c. Cheung, M. Chong, W. Fan, R. Fischer, R. Friedman, P.P. Fu, D.N. Henry, S. Hornung, G.-h. Huang, X. Huang, K.-K. Hwang, T.-Y. Kim, S.J. Kulich, J.Y.M. Lai, C.K. Lam, L.W. Lam, D.C.-s. Lau, C. Lee, Y.-t. Lee, K. Leung, W. Li, W. Liu, V.M.-C. Lun, I. Ng, S.B.C. Ng, K. Peng, D.M. Rousseau, Y.F. Shang, P.B. Smith, L.J. Song, D. Tjosvold, A.S. Tsui, S.S. Wen, A. Wong, C.-S. Wong, J. Wu, M. Wu, J. Wuttke, E. Xu, J. Yao, H.H. Zhao, J. Zhou

Product Description: Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that they can process at one time. George Miller argued that they can handle no more than seven, plus or minus two independent pieces of information at any given time...read more

Product Description: The Chinese people constitute more than a quarter of the world's population, yet until now there has been no single volume that summarizes and integrates the wealth of data available, in English and Chinese, on the psychological functioning of Chinese people...read more

Product Description: The complexion of the world is changing. As the international community becomes more mobile, there are more interracial couples, larger expatriate populations, and a variety of languages and cultures in every country in the world...read more

Product Description: Historically the psychological study of Chinese people has been dominated by theories, data, and practitioners from the West, but this handbook signals a coming of age for the field. It covers societies as diverse as Singapore, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan, ranging from abstract basic psychology to more concrete applications such as the attributes of Chinese consumers...read more

Product Description: Teachers and students of social psychology have become increasingly dissatisfied with the way introductory textbooks pretend that the world is made up of only one culture. Peter Smith and Michael Bond remedy the neglect of cultural influences within social psychology by introducing the student to the field from a cross-cultural perspective...read more

Product Description: Are the Chinese people unique? How can we compare the Chinese with other groups? Are the Chinese more concerned with "face" than other people? How can we explain the relative academic success of immigrant Chinese students? What is the impact of learning an ideographic script on the Chinese people's way of thinking and perceiving? Are the Chinese more or less family centered than other national groups? How can we understand Chinese negotiating techniques? Questions such as these have long fascinated people with an interest in China...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume a group of distinguished psychologists considers what the cross-cultural approach has to offer the discipline of social psychology. It begins with an assessment of the cross-cultural position, its faults and some requirements for broader acceptance...read more