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Differing concepts of time and its management across cultures are a significant problem in global organizations - this book analyzes why and looks for solutions Culturally different attitudes to time management can be extremely harmful in multinational organizations. More than half of all conflicts between Russian and Western European managers, for instance, have been shown to concern time. Providing new theoretical insights as well as practical advice, this book addresses time-related behaviors and policies in the labor world with analyses of empirical experience by researchers from different disciplines and countries. Three main issues are covered: similarities and differences between nations, variations within countries across trades and industries, and applications in terms of general strategy and functioning in a global marketplace. With contributions by researchers from countries such as Germany, Russia, The Netherlands, USA, France, and India, this uniquely international and interdisciplinary book will be of interest to researchers, students, and managers in disciplines such as sociology, psychology, economics, business administration, and education.

Based on experiences and research in the context of the political, social, and economic reconstruction of the former Soviet Union, this book focuses on the risks and opportunities of intercultural cooperation and cultural diversity. It is of interest to managers in business, administration, and education.

This book focusses on the significance of culture and development in Germany and Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective. Three mutually interdependent parts constitute the structure of the book. - The first part deals with individual (ontogenetic) development in both the German and the Japanese cultural contexts. The main question is, how the cultural enviroment influences the personal growth and adjustment to the challenges of biological development. - The second part deals with social and economic change in Germany and Japan. It adresses people’s attitudes and lifestyles, their responsiveness to political programs, their sense of ownership of the drive to preserve a decent future for the next generation, the reactions of national and local leaders to scientific and governance policy advice, and how these are linked to the respective own cultural identities and values in times of global change. - The third part aims to achieve an integrated view of ontogenetic and culture-genetic development, bridging the gap between individual development on the one hand and cultural tradition and change on the other. It deals with conceptual models of individual and cultural change serving as guidelines for future intercultural understanding and cooperation.

This book focuses on the significance of time in information processing. Distinguished researchers from around the world look at time both as an object of information processing and as a constituent factor in information processing, and then seek to define a unified view of psychological time that bridges the gap between "processing of temporal information" and "temporal processing of information." In the first part, 6 chapters based generally, but not solely, on the theoretical model of an internal clock describe the latest research and examine critically the current models concerning the abilities and mechanisms of time estimation and temporal coordination in humans and animals. In the second part, research and models concerning temporal factors and properties within processes of perception and memory are covered, including a model focusing on neural binding by synchrony, as well as results of behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological studies.

For students and practitioners of psychology and for management oriented consultants and researchers explores both barely noticed biological time constraints and the culturally shaped representations of time that impact our daily lives so heavily. The nine papers cover timing in motor behavior, time perception and memory, cultural differences, and approaches to a unified model of psychological time. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.