Managing Chinese-African Business Interactions: Growing Intercultural Competence in Organizations

by Claude-Hélène Mayer (Editor), Lynette Louw (Editor), Christian Martin Boness (Editor)

Overview

This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions. It presents cultural and theoretical knowledge on Chinese and African management, leadership, and philosophy. Chinese and African scholars and professionals share their insights into how to address intercultural management challenges proactively and successfully. The cases provide insights into a wide variety of industries and offer actual scenarios studied in governmental, parastatal, and private Chinese-owned organizations in twelve African countries. This book will benefit a broad readership including scholars in employment relations and business management as well as African and Chinese collaborators in academia, government, NGOs and industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030251857
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in African Leadership
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	518 KB

About the Author

Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research areas are transcultural management, mental health and well-being, women in leadership, transformation of emotions, shame and psychobiography.

Christian Martin Boness is an Associated Researcher at the Department of Management, Rhodes University, South Africa.

Lynette Louw is the Raymond Ackerman Chair of Management and current Deputy Dean, Faculty of Commerce at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her areas of specialty and research include strategic management, organisational behaviour, and cross-cultural management

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Chinese Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management.- 3. African Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management.- 4. Case 1: Dealing With Organisational Strategies in the Tanzanian-Chinese Chalinze Water Project.- 5. Case 2: “Not who I am, not what I mean”: Intercultural Communication in Chinese-African Interactions.- 6. Case 3: Dealing With Organisational Structures, Decision-making and Participation in the Zambian Textile Industry.- 7. Case 4: A Negotiation Between Chinese and African Organisations in Namibia.- 8. Case 5: How to Make Friends in Rwanda: A Chinese Tea Ceremony.- 9. Case 6: Setting Up Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMES) by Chinese Entrepreneurial Immigrants in Maputo, Mozambique.- 10. Case 7: Managing a Chinese-Angolan National Housing Project in Angola’s Capital, Luanda.- 11. Case 8: Language, Culture, and Power in the Chinese-South African Telecommunications Sector.- 12. Case 9: Transforming Employee Conflicts in a Chinese Construction Firm in Kampala, Uganda.- 13. Case 10: Sharing Knowledge in a Sudanese Oil Refinery Through Cultural and Language Trainings.- 14. Case 11: Working Conditions in a Chinese-Ugandan Communications Company.- 15. Case 12: Managing a Chinese-South African Restaurant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.- 16. Case 13: Employee Perceptions of a Chinese Heavy Machinery Importing Organisation Operating in Uganda.- 17. Case 14: Hiring and Firing in the Chinese-Zimbabwean Mining Industry.- 18. Case 15: Managing Chinese-Cameroonian Daily Interactions in a Company in Douala, Cameroon.- 19. Case 16: A Cross-cultural Conference in the Mozambique Confucius Institute.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book takes an in-depth look – via a case study approach of multiple companies and projects in ten different African countries – at labor (as well as culture, language, and management) issues in China-Africa engagement! This is a welcome addition to a growing literature that has, thus far, emphasized China-Africa macro trends involving trade, investment, loans, and the economic and political issues.” (Yoon Jung Park, PhD, Executive Director, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network; Associate Director, School of Advanced International Studies-China-Africa Research Institiate, JHU)

“The path to success will never be the same, but one can always learn from others' experiences. This book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand Chinese businesses in Africa. Read this book and learn from one of the best.” (Jindi An Deputy Chairperson, Belt & Road Africa Think-Tank Alliance)