Focusing on culture and organizational processes, this book examines the influences of culture on the organizational processes of conflict, negotiation, and decision making. The essays discuss the following: (1) culture and communication in organizational contexts; (2) cultural communication and organizing; (3) stereotypes and schemata; (4) a theory of conflict and culture; (5) culture and the management of conflict situations; (6) national and organizational cultures in conflict resolution in Japan, the United States, and Yugoslavia; (7) ethnicity and mediation; (8) normative power and conflict potential in intergroup relationships; (9) culture and decision making; (10) subjective culture and organizational decision making; and (11) North American and Japanese managerial attitudes toward decision making. (HTH)