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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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management
By:Dirk Holtbrügge

The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide you with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
By:Michalle E. Mor Barak

Succeeding in today’s global market requires a new set of skills than it did when the pioneers of the twentieth century were making their mark....
Category: Leadership
By:David Livermore

Does cultural intelligence increase work engagement? How do you gain cultural intelligence? Is cultural intelligence different from emotional intelligence and social intelligence? Is your level...
Category: Cultural Intelligence
By:Gerardus Blokdyk

Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign...
Category: Management
By:Marco Blankenburgh

This book lies within two interdisciplinary fields that should be bridged: cross-cultural management and international human resource management. The consequences of globalization lead to a...
Category: Cross Cultural, Human Resource, Management
By:Norhayati Zakaria

This book brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication in a concise and practical manner, focusing on communication as the foundation for management...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Elizabeth A. Tuleja

Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
By:Adam Kahane


Understanding Intercultural Communication, 3rd Edition (UIC3) emphasizes a perspective that integrates intersectional identity complexity with a strong values orientation in shaping intercultural contact. We address...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Stella Ting-Toomey, Leeva Chung

Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Author Kathryn Sorrells highlights history,...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Kathryn Sorrells

The bestselling guide to leading effectively in a global business environment―now updated to address radical changes in politics, society, economics and tech There’s so much...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Fons Trompenaars

This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Prof. Michael Byram

Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research...
Category: Cross Cultural, Psychology
By:Eric B. Shiraev, David A. Levy

This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations. Applying the concepts of cosmopolitanism,...
Category: Transition
By:Yukimi Shimoda

The Tenth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today’s readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community. Fred E. Jandt introduces essential communication skills and concepts that...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Fred E. Jandt

n a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
By:Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend...
Category: Fiction, Biographies, Our Reading List
By:Marilynne Robinson

"[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." ―Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
By:Catherine Belton

Today’s teams are working in an agile, interconnected and complex world, but despite the opportunities for collaboration, many teams are held back by poor communication,...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
By:Andy Fieldhouse

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
By:Stephen R. Covey

This resource looks at every aspect of intercultural communication from extensive number of insightful angles, including of contexts such as cultural or ethnic, geographic and...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:James W. Neuliep

“Revelatory . . . a vivid portrait of how MBS has altered the kingdom during his half-decade of rule.”—The Washington Post Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
By:Ben Hubbard

Do you often find yourself struggling to get a handle on your emotions? How many times have you found yourself feeling guilt, regret even over...
Category: Management
By:Edward Benedict

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
By:Christian Miller

Why should diversity and inclusion matter to you and your organization? The answer lies in that one thing we all strive for: SUCCESS.When team members...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Sondra Thiederman

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific...
Category: Communication & Branding, Technical
By:Luis Reyes-Galindo, Tiago Ribeiro Duarte

Tens of thousands of leaders every year attend their award winning inclusion programs. The Inclusion Dividend has continually hit the best-seller list, listed as a...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Mason Donovan, Mark Kaplan

It is only in recent decades that psychology as an academic discipline has begun to recognize the importance of a cultural perspective. From cross-cultural psychology...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
By:Susan B. Goldstein

Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as...
Category: Race
By:Jan Nederveen Pieterse Mellichamp

There is a revolution underway in employee workforce development, trending away from face-to-face to digital learning and away from event-based multiday workshops to technology-supported “learning...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
By:Robert O. Brinkerhoff et al.

This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike. Organization leaders need diversity...
Category: Diversity, Leadership
By:Claretha Hughes

This important collection of anecdotes and reminiscences from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is published to mark the occasion of his fifty years in...
Category: Fiction, Biographies, Our Reading List
By:Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day...
Category: Country Specific
By:Keping Wang

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
By:Jon Davidann, Marc Jason Gilbert

Global business management issues and concerns are complex, diverse, changing, and often intractable. Industry actors and policy makers alike rely upon partnerships and alliances for...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Mohammad Ayub Khan, Noam Ebner

Adam Grant, the New York Times best-selling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos to find out what the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
By:Adam Grant

Managing effectively across national and cultural boundaries is critical to the success of todays organizations, given the global environment of business and increasing diversity of...
Category: Cross Cultural, Management
By:Marie-Joelle Browaeys, Roger Price

This book investigates intercultural service encounters (ICSEs) in light of the rapidly globalizing world economy, examining the extant literature on the topic and identifying areas...
Category: Communication
By:Piyush Sharma

"An invaluable tool to help in planning practical strategies to work successfully across increasingly diverse business cultures. Riveting and thoroughly researched." - Daily Telegraph A major...
Category: Management
By:Richard D. Lewis

This textbook explores the theoretical and practical aspects of managing international business operations while also dealing with multi-cultural, multi-national and global issues of managing business...
Category: Diversity, Management
By:Kamal Fatehi, Jeongho Choi

2020 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Cross-Cultural and Missional) In our globalized world, ideas are constantly being exchanged between people of different...
Category: Cross Cultural, Learning
By:James E. Plueddemann

New Chapters on the Brain, Intersectionality, and Parents Simple, proven strategies that schools can start using today With a view through an economic lens that...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
By:Ruby K. Payne

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies...
Category: Our Reading List
By:James Clear

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
By:Brené Brown

Communicating Across Cultures by Stella Ting-Toomey is a foundational book about mindful intercultural communication through the identity negotiation theory. The book applies this theory to...
Category: Communication
By:Stella Ting-Toomey, Tenzin Dorjee

Culture is a concept that’s not easily defined, but impacts all of us. Identifying cultural differences or preferences is an important part of cultural intelligence,...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion
By:Dr Tom Verghese

This is a book for everyone who teaches. Whether you are responsible for your organization’s training and development, you are providing basic education in an...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Leadership
By:Randall B. Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri-Robins

Culture comes in many forms. Cultural Psychology: Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives combines hard science with everyday issues to explore how the intangible forces of our...
Category: Psychology
By:Christine Ma-Kellams

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural...
Category: Communication
By:Adrian Holliday

Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate—how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to...
Category: Communication
By:Roger Kreuz, Richard Roberts

This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from...
Category: Management
By:Nigel Holden et.al

What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits, and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and vice versa? How does...
Category: Communication, Management
By:Sonia Roccas, Lilach Sagiv

Unlock the key to building successful businesses in challenging international markets. Why do so many investors fail in frontier and emerging markets? How can entrepreneurs...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
By:Curt G. Laird

Second Edition - 2018 Sharpen your own cultural intelligence - and increase your professional effectiveness at the same time. Whether traveling abroad or working at...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Brooks Peterson

This two-volume set LNCS 10911 and 10912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2018, held as part of...
Category: Management, Technical
By:Pei-Luen Patrick Rau

This integrative volume identifies and defines cross-cultural issues in consumer psychology and consumer science as the world becomes an increasingly global marketplace. An international panel...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
By:Hester van Herk, Carlos J. Torelli

The global market means that many organizations now have offices, affiliates, suppliers, call centres, clients and customers in a wide range of countries and cultures....
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Communication & Branding
By:John Cutler

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a...
Category: Latest Books, Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
By:Daniel Kahneman et al.

The author first introduces the basic framework for cultural algorithms and he then explains the social structure of a cultural system as a mechanism for...
Category: Decision Making, Political & Social Sciences
By:Robert G. Reynolds

"Borderless Leadership is a must read for anyone involved in international business. It enables beginners to avoid common pitfalls, and seasoned executives will recognize many...
Category: Leadership
By:Zlatica Kraljevic

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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
By:Margaret K. Nydell

This book contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools...
Category: Conflict, Management
By:J. Martín Ramírez, Gracia Abad-Quintanal

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Intercultural intelligence specific requirements: Step 1 get your bearings resources: The quick...
Category: Management
By:The Art of Service

A proven system to develop your Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ), with success strategies and inspiring examples from around the world. The business leaders...
Category: Leadership
By:David Clive Price PhD et al.

Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques...
Category: Management, Research
By:Eldad Davidov Et Al

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG AND LIBRARY JOURNAL Where does great culture come from? How do you build and...
Category: Management, Teams
By:Daniel Coyle

When the first edition of this book was released in 2009, America had just elected its first truly multicultural President and some, either optimistically or...
Category: Race
By:David R. Morse

This best-selling text explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education–in a sociopolitical context–for students of all backgrounds. Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode look...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
By:Sonia Nieto

This book offers valuable new insights into the design of culturally-aware systems. In its first part, it is devoted to presenting selected Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
By:Colette Faucher

In today’s global business environment, it is vital that individuals and organizations have sophisticated global leadership skills. Communication and understanding of different cultures is paramount...
Category: Leadership, Management
By:Neil Remington Abramson

This book is the published version of my Ph.D. thesis, which was completed in 2011. It explores the intercultural workplace communication strategies employed by a...
Category: Communication & Branding, Country Specific
By:Sean O'Connell Ph.D

This book explores test adaptation, a scientific and professional activity now spanning all of the social and behavioural sciences. Adapting tests to various linguistic and...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
By:Dragoş Iliescu

2018 Preaching Magazine Book of the Year--To preach effectively in today's world, preachers need cultural intelligence. They must build bridges between listeners who come from various denominations,...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Matthew D. Kim

More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times bestselling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
By:Donald Miller

Boundaries is the book that's helped over 4 million people learn when to say yes and know how to say no in order to take control of...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
By:Henry Cloud, John Townsend

This text focuses on leading across cultural, economic, social, national, and political boundaries simultaneously. Global Leadership presents the field’s latest studies and practices in a succinct and...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership
By:Mark E. Mendenhall

Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From...
Category: Communication
By:Amiso M. George , Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural Settings makes an important contribution to the fields of multiculturalism and qualitative research methods. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Management
By:Deborah Court

This book explains the subtle maneuvers of what researchers call “facework” and demonstrates the vital role it plays in the success or failure of cross-cultural...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
By:Rebecca S. Merkin

The antidote to navigating turbulent times isn’t more rules. It is timeless virtue that creates sustainable value. Thoughtful leaders are keenly aware of the...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
By:Peter Rea et al.

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a...
Category: Race
By:Beverly Daniel Tatum

How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors. From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Psychology, Technical
By:R. Alexander Bentley et al.

We all make decisions about the direction our lives will take based on our circumstances and embrace the leadership demands our lives place on us....
Category: Decision Making, Leadership
By:Laetitia Mizero Hellerud

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding cross-cultural decision and human cognition with respect to various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological,...
Category: Decision Making
By:Mark Hoffman

Embrace Diversity and Thrive As An Organization In the rapidly changing business landscape, harnessing the power of diversity and inclusion is essential for the very...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
By:Jennifer Brown

Intercultural Competence in Higher Education features the work of scholars and international education practitioners in understanding the learning outcomes of internationalization, moving beyond rhetoric to concrete...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
By:Darla Deardorff

In this must-read for anyone seeking to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth takes us on an eye-opening journey to discover the true qualities that lead...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
By:Angela Duckworth

This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a...
Category: Management, Transition
By:Charles P. Chen

Successfully combining cross-cultural management and business research methods, this team of international authors provide much-needed coverage of the implications that should be considered when undertaking...
Category: Management
By:Jean-Claude Usunier et.al

Fosters the proficiency in intercultural communication vital for students to thrive in private and public life Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students...
Category: Communication & Branding
By:Myron W. Lustig et al.

With so much business happening on a global scale, cross-cultural communication is more important than ever before. Communication is always a challenge, and when diverse...
By:Sorin Dumitrascu

Succeed in Any Culture, in Every Situation In today's global economy, the ability to interact effectively across cultures is a fundamental job requirement for just...
Category: Leadership
By:David C. Thomas , Kerr C. Inkson

Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity...
Category: Fiction, Biographies, Our Reading List
By:Joseph Loconte

How much culture lurks in common conversation? According to Craig Storti, so much that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges-in social settings, on...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Communication & Branding
By:Craig Storti

People, money, and information are flowing faster than ever across international borders, putting us all just one step away from a culture crash—that moment when...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
By:Michael Landers

Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership....
Category: Leadership, Organizational Culture and Consulting
By:Edgar H. Schein

This stimulating book surveys the research on the challenges and opportunities encountered when working within culturally and geographically diverse organizational settings. Expert contributors pose and address complex...
Category: Management
By:Jessica L. Wildman et al.

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors. In The Geography of Thought Richard...
Category: Country Specific, Leadership, Management
By:Wei Yen

What goes on in the hearts and minds of men and women as they commit unethical acts that harm others? That’s what John wanted to...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Leadership
By:Dr. John Opincar