Managerial Caricatures专用课件.pptVIP

WangXiaoqing1097423488@ Xue13-651 CONTENT Managerial Caricatures经理人漫画 When we travel to a foreign country, we carry in our baggage a preconceived idea of people in that country. We look for characteristics in the individuals we meet. But much of the knowledge we think we have of different nationalities exists as stereotypes—conventional and oversimplified pictures without nuances or individuality. Our ideas may even be caricatures with features and peculiarities exaggerated for comic or grotesque effect. 我们去国外旅行时，带着行李，也带着对那国人的某些先入之见。在遇到的每一个人身上我们会去寻找一些特征。我们以为自己对不同国家的人有所了解，但这种了解只不过是一些俗套 —— 一些程式化的，过分简单化的形象，缺乏差别，没有个性，抑或是一幅幅夸张可笑、荒诞不经的漫画 Stereotypes and caricatures also exist about occupations or professions. If you ask a group of international executives to characterize businesspeople and managers from different countries, their descriptions may be something like this: 对于职业，也存在着俗套和漫画式的认识。如果请跨国公司的经理们描述一下来自不同国度的商界人士和经理人的特点，结果可能是这样的： American managers have in-depth knowledge of the business they run and baseball, but know little about the rest of the world. They think that everyone who is not American wishes he was. Americans are always the best. They only lose when the playing field is not even. 美国经理人对他们自己管理的公司有着深刻的了解，对棒球的知识也毫不逊色，除此之外所知甚少。他们认为世界上每一个人，只要他不是美国人，都希望自己是美国公民。美国人总是最棒的。只有竞争不公平的时侯他们才会失利。 The quarterly dividend is their cardinal goal, and quick fixes are the means to accomplish it. They organize their companies in many-layered hierarchies of order givers and order takers. Employees do not question instructions (at least openly). They lose their jobs if they do. 季度分红是他们的主要目标，而快速调整则是实现这一目标的手段。美国公司结构层次繁杂，等级森严，由下达命令和执行命令的人组成。雇员不得质疑上司的指令（至少不得公开质疑），否则就会被炒鱿鱼。 Americans talk fast and loud. Their products are the biggest, best, newest and fastest in the world. After a meeting, the Americans bring in hordes of lawyers and accountants to prepare contracts ten times longer than those used elsewhere. 美国人说话快，嗓门大。他们的产品体积最大，质量最优，技术最新，生产速度最快。洽谈完之后他们会请来成群结队的律师和财会人员