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Linguistic Pragmatics of Intercultural Professional and Business Communication
This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication...
Category: Communication
Advances in Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies...
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
Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership for the 21st Century
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
Negotiating Cultural Intelligence: An Investigation of Australian Expatriate and Japanese...
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
Working in a Multicultural World: A Guide to Developing Intercultural...
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...
Category: Inter-Cultural
Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations (Educational and Psychological...
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
Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution
Culture has a significant influence on the emerging trends in translation and interpretation. By studying language from a diverse perspective, deeper insights and understanding can...
Category: Communication
Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to...
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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication
Preaching with Cultural Intelligence: Understanding the People Who Hear Our...
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
Building a Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will...
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
Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How...
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
Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development
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
Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives (IEEE...
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
Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural...
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
Saving Face in Business: Managing Cross-Cultural Interactions
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
Exception to the Rule: The Surprising Science of Character-Based Culture,...
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
Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally
Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally is a comprehensive guide to integrating intercultural learning into the fabric of twenty-first century higher education. This updated NAFSA classic...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Developing Intercultural Practice: Academic Development in a Multicultural and Globalizing...
Intercultural higher education has the potential to enable diverse students in diverse contexts to lead lives they have reason to value in a multicultural and...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the...
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
The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms
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
The Essence of Leadership: A Cross-Cultural Foundation
In this text, leadership itself is reformulated in such a way that what emerges—the essence of leadership—is distinct from related phenomena, including management, presiding, and...
Category: Leadership
Being at Home in the World: Cross-Cultural Leadership Lessons to...
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
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About...
In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Intercultural Communication for Global Engagement
Intercultural Communication for Global Engagement explores issues and concerns of communication, culture and globalization through incorporating different perspectives including critical, interpretative, psychological, and social. The dialectical...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making: Proceedings of the AHFE 2017...
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
Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change
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
Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, Assessment and Application
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
Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Grit
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
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition (Cross-Cultural Management)
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
Communicating Across Cultures at Work
This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
International and Cross-Cultural Business Research
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
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
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
Fundamentals of Cross Cultural Communication
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...
Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers
Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Global Communication and Collaboration: Global Project Management, Global Sourcing, Cross-Cultural...
Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing. The author explains how working...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R....
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
Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference
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
Culture Crossing: Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in...
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
Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
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
Critical Issues in Cross Cultural Management
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
Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Critical approaches to...
From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation. It is not only a site of employment where money is made and...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
From the Great Wall to Wall Street: A Cross-Cultural Look...
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
Ethical Intelligence: The Foundation of Leadership: How to Get It...
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
Inclusive Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Developing and Executing an...
Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. Inclusive Leadership has been officially shortlisted in the 'Management Futures' category for the...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior: Improving Leadership Effectiveness
Examining the importance of cultural attitudes on human resource practices, this book addresses an important, but often neglected aspect of cross-cultural leadership. First providing an...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Assessment of Cross Cultural Competence in Multinational Organisations
An organization can aptly strengthen its bottom line by tapping into its employees’ various cultural dispensations. An organization’s human resource is very important as it...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective
This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents....
Category: Communication
Successful Global Leadership: Frameworks for Cross-Cultural Managers and Organizations
This book provides practical frameworks for anyone hoping to become a successful global leader, and outlines the challenges that international firms face when managing across...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures (Security and Professional Intelligence Education...
National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Cultural Chemistry: Simple Strategies for Bridging Cultural Gaps
Are you fascinated but frustrated by cultural differences? Have you stood on the edge of cultural gaps and wondered how on earth to bridge them?...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Management
Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course
How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching
The Cross-Cultural Coaching Kaleidoscope
Coaching has emerged from a Western, largely Anglo-American, perspective that may not be appropriate across cultures, given the multi-cultural nature of societies and workplaces today...
Category: Coaching, Psychology
Cross-Cultural Management: Foundations and Future
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management: Foundations and Future
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics...
Category: Management
Global Leadership, Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Neuroscience
Does operating on the global stage change the nature of leadership? Is cultural intelligence essential to global leadership success? And how can we use neuroscience...
Category: Leadership
Building Cultural Intelligence in Church and Ministry: 10 Ways to...
The church today is gradually becoming a place where many diverse cultures meet to worship God. As we worship together, there are often challenges on...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Doing Business with Ease Overseas: Building Cross-Cultural Relationships That Last
THE QUEST: Cross-Cultural Connections at Home and AbroadIn this global economy and multicultural, multilingual world, bridges are built and crossed. The advice in this book...
Category: Decision Making, Management
A Comprehensive Cross Cultural Model: A study about Lateral Thinking...
The importance of world business has created a demand for managers sophisticated in global management skills and working with people from other countries. Organizational behavior...
Category: Management
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures
If you read nothing else on managing across cultures, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important...
Category: Conflict, Management
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The...
In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork....
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
Managing Cross-Cultural Communication: Principles and Practice
Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
This fully revised, 8th edition of the market-leading textbook on multicultural counseling comprehensively covers the most recent research and theoretical formulations that introduce and analyze emerging...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Psychology & Counselling
Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
This ground breaking textbook looks at the issue of managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle situation...
Category: Management
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A Model for Effective Personal Relationships
With more than 125,000 copies in print, this model for effective personal relationships in a multicultural and multiethnic world has proven successful for many. On...
Category: Communication
Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
Today’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. But these cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating...
If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy...
Category: Race
The Culture Map
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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
Cases in Cross-Cultural Management
Understanding cultural differences and knowing how to work effectively with people from cultures different from one’s own is an important management skill. The following cases...
Category: Management
A World of Difference: Leading in global markets with cultural...
A World of Difference is by diversity and inclusion consultant at Include-Empower, Felicity Menzies, for employees working in global teams; for managers, human resource professionals;...
Category: Leadership
Silk Roads
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Entering the global engineering market: A correlational study of cultural...
Faced with increasing domestic competition from non-U.S. firms and a growing global marketplace, U.S.-based engineering firms have turned their focus to globalizing their services. Understanding...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Marketing & Sales
Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service
When you go abroad to serve, you’re thinking about the language, the losses,and the excitement. When you return home you’re thinking about your friends and...
Category: Transition
Optimization of Leadership Style: New Approaches to Effective Multicultural Leadership...
Reinhold Kohler shows and explains ten selected and powerful leadership enablers to motivate, develop, and manage international teams, clustered in roles, skills and abilities (ROSKAB)....
Category: Leadership, Teams
Multinational Workplaces: War of Culturally Seasoned Minds: Dynamics of ‘Level...
Multi-cultural workplaces in multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been found to be the providers of best team performances. Most multinational firms focus on strategies to bring...
Category: Management, Teams
Experiences of Immigrant Professors: Challenges, Cross-Cultural Differences, and Lessons for...
Educational institutions all over the world continue to attract the services of foreign-born scholars. In addition to the culture shock that immigrants experience in unfamiliar...
Category: Cross Cultural, Culture Shock, Education, School & Teaching, Transition
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in...
“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment
Throughout the world as in the United States, psychologists are increasingly being called upon to evaluate clients whose backgrounds differ from their own. It has...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
The Five Principles of Global Leadership: How To Manage The...
The type of global leadership described in the five principles of this book is effective in any organization. Of course the context changes, but how...
Category: Leadership
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
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....
Category: Inter-Cultural, Latest Books
Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring...
Create meaningful relationships that translate to better business Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from...
Category: Leadership, Management
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race
Facilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and participants bring emotional experiences and their deeply held values and beliefs into the...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Race
Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations
Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of...
Category: Management
Management Control Systems and Cross-Cultural Research
A fundamental challenge that management faces in the twenty-first century is how to exercise adequate control, i. e. how to guide and direct the behaviour...
Category: Management
Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs: A...
This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and...
A bold, brain based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionTo close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally...
Category: Communication, Education, School & Teaching
Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between
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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
Effective Intercultural Communication: A Christian Perspective
With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is...
Category: Communication & Branding
Diversity and Leadership
Although leadership theories have evolved to reflect changing social contexts, many remain silent on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. Diversity and Leadership, by Jean...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Intercultural Communication: A Peacebuilding Perspective
We live in an increasingly more globalized world, where living and working with people of various cultures is a nearly everyday occurrence. These interactions, combined...
Category: Communication & Branding
Beyond Dubai: Seeking Lost Cities in the Emirates
Beyond Dubai is a light-hearted journey around the Emirates in search of its past—encountering smugglers, fire-starting genies, loved-up camels, and a mysterious mountain tribe along...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders
Right now, vast amounts of time and money are being invested all round the world in building global brands and organisations. But where are the...
Category: Leadership, Transition
Communication Beyond Boundaries
The way one communicates across ethnicities and cultures can vary, leading to miscommunication and misinterpretation. In a diverse setting, communication is far more complicated than...
Category: Communication
How to Use Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence...
The focus of this book is to show how Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) are critical factors used to help...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Religion & Spirituality
And the Mountains Echoed
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global...
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life....
Category: Management, Transition
Global Leadership Practices: A Cross-Cultural Management Perspective
An advanced level edited text that covers key theories of cross-cultural management and helps develop practical solutions to deal with difference in organizations. Focuses on...
Category: Leadership, Management
