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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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective. Professor Miller's clear writing style and consistent use of examples...
Category: Communication & Branding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key...
Category: Management

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

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

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

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

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 teaches readers to uncover and understand the complexities of managing diversity through a unique dialogue of opportunity. Through its...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example...
Category: Communication & Branding

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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? It turns out that many companies around the world are missing a key point: that global leadership is distinctly different from...
Category: Leadership

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

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

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

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

“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

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