The best learning comes from the best questions. When connecting with people, knowing how to ask questions is the gateway to gaining true insight into...

In today's highly competitive global economy, it is said that most managers are - or soon will be - global managers. Whether they work abroad...

This textbook explores the reasons for intercultural differences and their effects on the behavior of individuals and organizations within the context of management. The text...

The investment in global collaboration technology now exceeds US$45 billion. Professionals who work across cultures face some of the most cognitively, psychologically and emotionally difficult...

Which culture is the “best?” Which group has life figured out, and which is still evolving? Who has it right, and why doesn’t everyone else...

Overall Winner of the 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award In the vein of timely titles such as...

Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach introduces students to the fundamental topics, theories, concepts, and themes of intercultural communication. Best-selling author James W. Neuliep presents a clear...

INNOVATION MINDSET shares an intimate backstage view of how Cirque du Soleil and genius director, Franco Dragone, turn create a culture of extraordinary performance. An...

This book is a practical map that will help you understand the people and demystify the culture of the Arab world - the beliefs, values...

For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an...

Why do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer stands a chance. When firms...

Measureable, data driven outcomes are not the only indicators of success in today’s multicultural and globalized workforce. How employees interact with their colleagues and customers...

This ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas...

Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...

Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...

Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in...

The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The book discusses the ways in which...

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership....

Everyone's got a story to tell. If your story involves growing up among different cultures - either moving between them or having them move around...

Successful business communication is more than simply speaking your client’s language. At the heart of all effective communication lies a fundamental understanding of human behavior....

As people move into the new era of the twenty-first century, they will have more and more opportunities to communicate and interact with others using...

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When...

Innovative new book presenting intercultural theories and themes in an accessible style, facilitating an exploration of the many challenging and contemporary issues in our society...

What does it mean to be a global worker and a true citizen of the world” today? It goes beyond merely acknowledging cultural differences. In...

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by...

The Centers for Austrian Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research since the 1970s, play an important role for the Austrian...

Although intercultural concepts tend to essentialism and reductionism and thus run the risk of constructing artificial ethnic differences and stereotypes, the existing models are quite...

With the rapidly developing globalization of various sectors of modern life, individuals, organizations, and nations are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which cultural...

In a globalized world, discussions about migration and (inter)cultural identity call for a thorough analysis of the way in which people shape their cultural self-understanding....

Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a...

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the...

The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups....

To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepare the next generation of teachers with...

Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three...

Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany analyzes a variety of genres that depict Korean migration in Germany.  By applying methods of media analysis,...

Intimate relationships between two people from different cultures generate a degree of excitement and intrigue within the couple due to that very difference, however this...

Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: Intercultural competence...

International teams are rapidly becoming the central operating mode for global enterprises. They are often agile and perceptive, know local markets better than HQ does,...

This book presents a methodological framework for the analysis of intercultural issues frequently misinterpreted by existing theories. It uses a challenge-and-response theory of cultural development...

Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue is an international collection by renowned scholars who examine the ideological underpinnings of the European model and its global applications. It explores...

Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within...

Society is a nexus of individual perceptions. The world is as we each see it, no more and no less. To hope that we shall...

Featuring several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings that explore how interpersonal...

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores...

Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an...

This project explores what it means to be a native teacher of Japanese in an Australian classroom and how best to balance the need to...

This book explores communication, culture, and intercultural communication. The emphasis is on promoting understanding of and appreciation for the rich and varied perspectives encountered in...

This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics...

Both a strategy and an implementation road map of a new brand of diversity, this book focuses on developing a workplace culture that is inclusive...

A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts. The illuminating insights...

The informative and wide-ranging essays in this second volume of Borgo Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, by authors from Britain, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Russia and Spain,...

For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: The increasing internationalization and globalization has...

As the global economy becomes more and more complex and interdependent and the importance of internationalization becomes self-evident for businesses, the number of contacts with...

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, language: English, abstract: As this research comes to its provisional...

Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying...

Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional...

This is an explorative research project that investigates whether the prestressed relationship between Germans and Israelis affects business negotiation processes nowadays. In addition, I find...

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: This book is an...

This project introduces the concept of intercultural training (ICT) and emphasises the importance of such programmes for the successful integration of those sojourning overseas. “Countering...

How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who...

The exploration of cross-cultural contact in a global and transnational world is essential in understanding how we can learn to live with difference in ways...

Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines – «History of Education» and «Intercultural Education» – the contributions to this volume provide...

Maastricht School of Management (MSM) raises the standard of management knowledge among managers and executives with varied cultural and professional backgrounds around the globe. MSM...

A research collaboration between the The Open University, the University of Adelaide and the BBC World Service Trust (WST), this book is a first-of-its-kind initiative...

The whole world is talking about globalisation and there are so many versions of it that one might as well not talk about it at...

In the context of intercultural communication, non-native and native speakers interact with each other and often make use of idioms and other fixed expressions as...

In Intercultural Communication, the authors draw on their deep intercultural experience to show us how to build successful communication bridges across diverse cultures. The book explores...

Servant leadership, as a post modern concept, reflecting the changing direction of leadership in the 21st century is getting increased attention in the leadership literature.Organizational...

Empires and Indigenes is a sweeping examination of how intercultural interactions between Europeans and indigenous people influenced military choices and strategic action. Ranging from the...

It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing...

The current study explores intercultural management competence in Finnish multicultural working life. The topic is investigated from the viewpoint of Finnish supervisors and international employees...

Despite the growing presence of intercultural couples in the United States and worldwide, their stories often go untold. In Intercultural Couples, Jill Bystydzienski provides a...

This book investigates the business and bottom-line effects of intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration in international services organisations. Caused by the organisation-specific separation of companies into...

This thesis addresses the topic of intercultural education and immigrant integration as it relates to the secondary school system in Germany. Student and teacher surveys...

Structured on a country-by-country basis to allow a closer and more rigorous examination of the factors that influence labor market trends, organization and employment policies...

Perception and Communication in Intercultural Spaces explores the ways in which cultural values and beliefs influence communication. It captures intercultural communication in everyday contexts by introducing...

This study is based on figuring out the significance of cultural impacts on business relationships according to people who have work experience on the Japanese...

This book demonstrates that culture and language are closely intertwined and argues that they need to be taught simultaneously from the very beginning of acquiring...

The business-determined reduction and the culturally conditioned reduction of vital phenomena to a set of some presumably relevant categories frozen into fixed abstractions has no...

The ethnocentric, the cultural/intercultural and the transcultural mindsets respectively create a cultural wave that spreads across and impacts the sea of time and space and...

Intercultural communication and the inquiry to improve international understanding. What do communication and culture actually mean? How do people communicate and in which way can...

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how race and culture can impact communication. More, specifically, the author explores the ways in...

The presented book deals with the central topic international and intercultural public relations and has the aim of finding answers to the questions: how does...

Despite the central role that intercultural sensitivity plays in foreign student advising, the intercultural sensitivity of foreign student advisors has never been previously been studied....

Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language and Intercultural...

This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly...

This book bears good news from the front of INTERCULTURAL LIFELONG LEARNING at a time of global economic uncertainty and recession. A learning revolution in...

In an increasingly interdependent world, the ability to communicate, empathize and interact across geographical and cultural boundaries is essential for effective living. The Outsourced Intercultural...

"Transculture" or the transcultural approach as an extension and an enhancement of the intercultural approach is the master key that unlocks any culture. Therefore the...

Recent years have seen a considerable increase in research on intercultural preparation and on the effectiveness of these trainings. Regrettably, there have been two shortcomings...

This book critically examines the main features of intercultural communication. It addresses how ideology permeates intercultural processes and develops an alternative ′grammar′ of culture. It...

This book takes a critical look at why issues of language in higher education are routinely marginalised, despite the growing internationalisation of universities. The book...

In the light of upcoming global issues, concerning population, energy, the environment, and food, information and communication technologies are required to overcome difficulties in communication...

"The WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council) estimates that over 230 million jobs in world are supported by the tourism industry, which equates to 8.3...

The growth of U.S. and Mexican business relations, particularly as the result of the NAFTA, have created the need for corporations to provide their business...

What is the First Step in Developing a Successful Business Relationship with any American Indian Tribe? Understanding that relationships come first and business comes second!...

The papers in this collection have been selected from over 800 presentations given at the XIIIth World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, held at the...

"Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." (Prof. Geert Hofstede,...