Professor Fons Trompenaars is an organizational theorist, management consultant and best-selling author, well-known for his seven-dimensional model of national business cultures. Riding the Waves of Culture (written with Hampden-Turner) has sold one third of a million copies. He was awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development. In 2011 HR Magazine voted him among the world's 20 top international thinkers. He has been elected to the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame for management scholars. He is a professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and where he heads a course on Servant Leadership. He was until recently a partner at KPMG in Amstelveen. His latest book is 100+ Management Models which has won a prize in Malaysia. Until recently he had a column in the Dutch language edition of the Financial Times which described him as "a new star in of the world's management seminar circuit."
Introduction. Understanding corporate culture. Existing models for
understanding and mapping corporate cultures. The reconciling corporate
culture: reconciling nine dimensions of corporate culture. Corporate
culture: the international perspective. Corporate culture and success... or
failure. Creating and changing a corporate culture. Integrating different
corporate cultures in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances.
Deriving strength from the tension between seemingly opposite values.
Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
