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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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 Settings makes an important contribution to the fields of multiculturalism and qualitative research methods. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Management

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is by diversity and inclusion consultant at Include-Empower, Felicity Menzies, for employees working in global teams; for managers, human resource professionals;...
Category: Leadership

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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