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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
Gender, Careers and Inequalities in Medicine and Medical Education: International...
The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focused...
Category: Asian Studies, Education, School & Teaching
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
Understanding and Managing Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises
Understanding and Managing Diversity uses applications to clarify the complexity of a diverse workforce, and explains how it can be used as an organizational asset. This...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
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
Intercultural Readiness: Four Competences for Working Across Cultures
Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management...
Category: Management
Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations
Organizations need not sacrifice workplace diversity in the quest for positive global reputation and profit. On the contrary, attention to social identity 'difference' in the...
Category: Management
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing”—the art of switching leadership...
Category: Cross Cultural, Latest Books
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected...
Carol Wall, a white woman living in a lily-white neighbourhood in Middle America, was at a crossroads in her life. Her children were grown; she...
Category: Race
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context
Students with a strong grasp of the complete conceptual framework of OB theories have a greater understanding of its managerial implications, as well as their...
Category: Management
Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life
Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on...
Category: Communication & Branding
Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities
For courses in Success/Orientation, Diversity (ie. Managing Diversity), Race and Ethnic Relations, Cultural Diversity in the Workplace, Multiculturalism and Inclusion (ie. leadership, group dynamics, teaching,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Organizational Communication: Approaches and Processes
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: APPROACHES AND PROCESSES presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective. Professor Miller's clear writing style and consistent use of examples...
Category: Communication & Branding
Individual Cultural Intelligence. A Comparison to Other Individual Models of...
RELEVANCE Organizational success in international business depends heavily on the individual’s ability to manage cross-cultural interaction. There is a growing organizational demand to assess and...
Category: Communication, Management
Cross-Cultural Management: A Transactional Approach
The internationalization of business via the process of globalization has brought issues of culture to the forefront of management thinking. Although culture is by no...
Category: Management
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark...
Category: Transition
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective....
Category: Communication & Branding
Diversity in the Classroom: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher...
This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given...
Category: Diversity
Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary...
The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It’s not about how smart you are, but how...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
Canadian Workplace Culture: Mastering the Unspoken Rules
What nobody will ever tell you about succeeding in Canada! Matt Adolphe, an internationally-experienced communication expert, explains why certain behaviours don t work in Canada...
Category: Country Specific, Latest Books
Cross-Cultural Communications with Success
The purpose of this book is to provide further awareness of many situations and types of misunderstandings, both within and in cross-cultural settings, focusing on...
Category: Communication
Communication across Cultures: Mutual Understanding in a Global World
Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language...
Category: Communication & Branding
Expand Your Borders: Discover Ten Cultural Clusters
In bestsellers such as Leading with Cultural Intelligence and Serving with Eyes Wide Open, David Livermore has taught readers how to develop their cultural intelligence,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Management: Culture and Management across the World
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...
Category: Management
Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment of Diverse...
The Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health, Second Edition, discusses the impact of cultural, ethnic, and racial variables for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, service delivery, and development of...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Race
Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership...
Unique in its focus, methodology, and impact, Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness in 24 Countries is a must-have for...
Category: Leadership
Culture Clash 2: Managing the Global High-Performance Team
Flying blind with customers, colleagues, collaborators or competitors? Frustrated by misunderstandings or conflicts with other organizational silos or cultures? Learn the #1 skill: how to...
Category: Management, Teams
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially...
“The best-selling author’s creativity is evident throughout. . . . A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book...
Category: Communication, Our Reading List
The Human Equity Advantage: Beyond Diversity to Talent Optimization
A fresh approach to the old problem of "diversity fatigue" Trevor Wilson, global diversity strategist and visionary leader, presents a fresh, new management model that...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Determining Strategies For Cross-cultural Training- India Based MNC: Multinational companies...
Growing number of MNCs have been attracted to India and many more are planning to enter India. This research work seeks to analyze the experience...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors...
Category: Country Specific
The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will...
The culmination of six years of research and development, The Work of Leaders presents a simple structure that neatly captures the complexity of contemporary leadership. The goal...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication
The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower...
Your go-to guide for building and maintaining champion level teams and then leading your team to the peak level of success regardless of the field...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere: 5 Keys To Successful Cross-Cultural...
The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturallySay Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key guidelines to create rapport and organize strategies...
Category: Communication
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds...
Category: Latest Books, Teams
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers―and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles....
Category: Decision Making, Latest Books
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key...
Category: Management
Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom
The Matrix Model Management System is a much-needed framework for cross cultural expertise. The field-tested Matrix System is an innovative tool for story-based communication, conflict...
Category: Communication, Conflict, Management
Models for Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation
This book is the first to bring together research material from different communities, Computer Science and especially Artificial Intelligence, and Social Sciences, e.g. Anthropology, Social Psychology,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Psychology & Counselling
Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context: Perspectives on the Psychology of...
This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human...
Category: Psychology
Intercultural Relations: Communication, Identy and Conflict
Even in a world made smaller every day by the Internet and social media, we sometimes experience culture shock when interacting with others. Fortunately for...
Category: Communication & Branding, Conflict
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century,...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity
Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity teaches readers to uncover and understand the complexities of managing diversity through a unique dialogue of opportunity. Through its...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity
Constant, continuing, and cataclysmic change is causing a major crisis within business organizations today. Faced with constantly advancing technology, unpredictable market shifts, intense global competition,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Using revealing stories from complex situations he has been involved in all over the world - the Middle East, South Africa, Europe, India, Guatemala, the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts
This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services
With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are often produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration...
Category: Technical
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural...
Short-term mission trips are great ways to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants....
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from...
Since the 1990s, a transformation has occurred within the role of human resources departments. HR professionals are being called upon to help determine priorities in...
Category: Human Resource
e-Negotiations: Networking and Cross-Cultural Business Transactions
Practical negotiating skills, including those needed for cross-cultural negotiations have long been taught in classrooms, along with some of the theory that underpins them. Most...
Category: Communication
Cross-cultural management textbook: Lessons from the world leading experts in...
Cross-Cultural Management Textbook is a practical course-book that synthesizes in a practical way contemporary cross-cultural communication and management knowledge for students and professionals. It is the...
Category: Management
Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals
CULTURAL AGILITY Succeeding in today’s global economy requires organizations to acquire, develop, and retain professionals who can operate effectively around the world, irrespective of country...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Intercultural Competence as a universal Interculture
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1, Berlin School of Economics, language: English,...
Category: Communication
Building Cultural Competence: Innovative Activities and Models
For college administrators, diversity trainers, study abroad educators, HR directors, and corporate trainers, this book provides a cutting-edge framework and an innovative collection of ready-to-...
Category: Human Resource
Essential Concepts of Cross-Cultural Management: Building on What We All...
You may recognize the statement on the back cover of so many textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce--'to help you understand and appreciate the...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Science and Art of Comparing the World′s...
Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture′s Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today′s times....
Category: Cross Cultural, Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Team Building: Fundamentals, practices, and reliability
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Intercultural...
Category: Teams
Being Global: How to Think, Act, and Lead in a...
What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that...
Category: Leadership
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong...
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example...
Category: Communication & Branding
Assessing Cultural Exposure: An Improved Framework for the Assessment of...
This study focuses on the many dimensions of cultural intelligence (CQ); during the study, a detailed framework of CQ Dimensions was constructed that later was...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion
The Four Skills of Cultural Diversity Competence
Hogan's updated fourth edition of FOUR SKILLS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMPETENCE: A PROCESS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE provides you with the tools necessary to help...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: A Guide for Global Management
The theme of this new edition of Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is CHANGE. First of all, cultures change. In markets around the world, business behavior is...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management
The book offers an introduction to cross cultural management through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business...
Category: Management
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take...
Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Successful Cross- Cultural Management: A Guide for International Managers
This book outlines the particulars of cross-cultural management and is a guidebook for international managers. The book not only discusses the general aspects of how...
Category: Management
Content Preparation Guidelines for the Web and Information Appliances: Cross-Cultural...
Content preparation is an integral part of the usability equation: it answers the question of what information is needed for effective decision making. Once content...
Category: Decision Making
Make Haste SLOWLY!: Growing effective intercultural communication
Sustainable growth happens gradually! Here you will find the resources to stimulate reproductive growth among the people you serve. The first edition of this book...
Category: Communication & Branding
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck-Why Some Thrive Despite...
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling is a brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise,...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
What is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors that Define Great...
What is global leadership? It turns out that many companies around the world are missing a key point: that global leadership is distinctly different from...
Category: Leadership
The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can’t...
As an award-winning author and global business leader, David Livermore applies his social science and cultural intelligence (CQ) expertise to teach others how to thrive...
Category: Leadership, Management
Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in the New Global...
Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and...
Category: Country Specific, Management
Corporate Culture: The Ultimate Strategic Asset
Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we...
Category: Management
International Management Ethics: A Critical, Cross-cultural Perspective
What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management...
Category: Management
Facilitating Intergroup Dialogues: Bridging Differences, Catalyzing Change
“This is an invaluable resource for college administrators and faculty. As today’s elected leaders and media shout past one another, our next generation needs to...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Diversity & Inclusion
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read...
Category: Latest Books, Management
