Tomas Andres
Tomas Quintin Donato Andres is a Filipino intercultural consultant, counselor, and pioneer of the Philippine-based management and training system known as "Management by Filipino Values". He is also the initiator of the internationally based management and training system known as "Management by Humor". Apart from being a professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, he is also the manager and president of the Values and Technologies Management Centre. His "Understanding Filipino Values" is a book that relates the Filipino value system to the management situation in the Philippines, in order to provide a clearer understanding of those  values, concepts and traditions, and to increase productivity and efficiency in business. As an intercultural consultant, Andres conducts crosscultural orientation on Philippine culture for expatriates of multinational and international organizations. Having worked as counselor and consultant in several institutions, Andres was an adviser and a crosscultural educator to Filipino seamen and migrant workers in their moments of culture shocks in foreign lands. He is an accomplished author of books about the usage and application of Filipino values in daily living, interpersonal relationships, work, management, and productivity, among others. Education. Andres received his doctorate degree from the Far Eastern University in  the Philippines. He is a recipient of a master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. He obtained his diplomate in labor and industrial management from the Labor Management College in Buffalo, New York in the United States. He received five baccalaureate degrees in Education, Liberal Arts, Oriental Philosophies, Behavioral Sciences, and Industrial Technology from the Philippines, Spain, and India. Works. As an accomplished author, here is an enumeration of some of the books Andres has written: