Culture Clash: Conflict and Its Management

2 Frontier Hybridization or Culture Clash ?

Errata: "fokker, a Clash of Culture?"

What role do cultural factors play in the survival of a company that faces existential problems, especially if these problems relate to co-operation between organisations with different cultures? We try to provide some answers by looking at the decline of the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. In 1996 this company went bankrupt and among the causes of this event cultural factors rank high, at ...

Culture , politics clash at World Week display

The Albany Slate wrestling team continued on their record setting pace by finishing seventh in the country and having four wrestlers earn All-American honors. The Danes competed in the NCAA Division 111 National Championships in Whcaion, Illinois last Friday and Saturday and came back to Albany sporting their finest performance ever in the nationals. Andy Seras was named an All-Amcrican for the...

Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror

that war is politics by other means is a reminder that the primary goal of the war against terror is not to defeat and eliminate those who aim to attack the United States and its allies. Rather it is to enhance the security of the American people and their allies. These goals are the same only if terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda are isolated groups of criminals that need only be found a...

Conflict and Conflict Management

Conflict cannot be avoided since it is an inevitable aspect of work teams. Conflict may be defined as a struggle or contest between people with opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or goals. Conflict on teams is inevitable; however, the results of conflict are not predetermined. Conflict might escalate and lead to nonproductive results, or conflict can be beneficially resolved and lead to qu...