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The management world in the twenty first century -- The cultural environment -- The political and regulatory environment -- The historical and geographical environment -- The language and religious environment -- The economic environment -- An international perspective on motivation -- An international perspective on leadership -- An international perspective on communication and negotiation -- An international perspective on human resource choices -- Managing the expatriate experience -- Special issues in international human resource management

The book examines the international, cross-cultural environment faced by international firms, detailing how this environment affects behavior at both the individual and organizational levels. Fully updated to incorporate the latest research in the field, Punnett has also invested in several new features that will make this book even more appealing to students and instructors: Expanded and new coverage of several key topics, including diversity, multi-cultural teams, virtual teams, global careers, global talent management, global value chains, ethics, and millennials. New pedagogy-learning objectives, chapter summaries, lessons learned, cases, mini-cases, and discussion questions-to help students consolidate learning and encourage critical thinking. Clearly written and concise, International Perspectives on Organizational Behavior helps students of international organizational behavior and cross-cultural management classes understand the many differences that managers face when operating cross-nationally, and provides them with practical tools to tackle these differences.

Introduction -- Terminology of development -- Characteristics of developing countries -- Management issues and examples -- Explanations of economic development -- Planning and strategic management in developing countries -- Organizing and operating an international company -- Human resource management -- Managing an international workforce -- Motivation in developing countries -- Leadership in developing countries -- Special issues for managers in developing countries

AbstractThe LEAD research project was developed in order to broaden management research in areas such as Africa. This special issue brings together the early findings of the research team. The present article reviews the literature and discusses the importance of understanding organizational leadership and motivation in under researched areas of the world. We explain the use of both emic (Delphi Technique and focus groups) and etic (large scale survey) research and describe the LEAD project and methodology in detail. Here we advocate the use of emic and etic research, and also consider the practical realities of using such approaches. Copyright © 2014 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.