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Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising...
Category: Race
China-West Interculture: Toward the Philosophy of World Integration: Essays on...
World problems are intercultural, requiring sensitivity to cultural integrity in order to resolve. Wu Kuang-ming (Ph.D., philosophy, Yale) has been grappling with cultural clashes at...
Category: Country Specific
Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership
As the US becomes more diverse, cross-cultural ministry is increasingly important for nearly all pastors and church leaders. Of particular concern is the issue of...
Category: Leadership
A Thousand Splendid Suns
After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels
Cross-Cultural Marketing: Theory, practice and relevance
Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment. Many conventional accounts of the topic have conflated cross-cultural and cross-national marketing, but in...
Category: Latest Books, Marketing & Sales
Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Dynamics Within...
Featuring contributions from some of the world′s most renowned cross-cultural management theorists and commentators, this breakthrough text explores the cross-cultural dynamics within organizations. The book...
Category: Leadership
Intercultural Communication: A Layered Approach
Intercultural Communication illustrates the dynamic role intercultural communication plays today in social problems, the workplace, health care settings, mass media, and history through a layered and...
Category: Communication
Cross-Cultural Management. The case of the DaimlerChrysler Merger
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, California State University, Fullerton, course: International Management,...
Category: Management
Doing Cross-Cultural Research
Conducting cross-cultural research is rife with methodological, ethical and moral challenges. Researchers are challenged with many issues in carrying out their research with people in...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Political & Social Sciences
Bridging the Culture Gap: A Practical Guide to International Business...
As globalization continues to gather momentum, the contact between business people from other countries is becoming more and more frequent. The more national boundaries a...
Category: Communication & Branding
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless...
If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Effective Multicultural Teams: Theory and Practice
Multicultural and multinational teams have become an important strategic and structural element of organizational work in our globalized world today. These teams are demonstrating their...
Category: Teams
The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research
Renowned international experts Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson, and David C. Thomas, editors of the The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management, have drawn together scholars in...
Category: Management
Changing Korea: Understanding Culture and Communication (Critical Intercultural Communication Studies)
In the last fifty years, Korea has transformed itself from an agrarian, Confucian-based culture into a global and technological powerhouse, and one of the most...
Category: Asian Studies, Intercultural Communication
Cultural Intelligence: The Art of Leading Cultural Complexity
Introducing a way of thinking about culture as a dynamic and socially constructed phenomenon rather than a fixed set of rules, this guidebook provides a...
Category: Leadership, Management
Setting the Table byMeyer
This paperback book contacts a total of 336 pages full of insight on how to get your business successful! Includes personal anecdotes for training you...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Building Cultural Intelligence (CQ): 9 Megaskills
This engaging, interactive book on cultural diversity is suited for general courses across the disciplines (i.e. cultural diversity, human relations, freshman seminar/orientation, communications, sociology, business, health and...
Category: Communication & Branding, Diversity & Inclusion
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
From the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Cross Cultural Management and Negotiation Practices
Cross Cultural Management and Negotiation Practices is about managing cultural differences throughout a country or organization, according to some basic principles of professionalism and open...
Category: Management
In Search of Intercultural Understanding
"In Search of Intercultural Understanding" is a practical guidebook for living and working across cultures. In a hands-on and visual approach, this guide offers new...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management, Transition
Conflict Across Cultures: A Unique Experience of Bridging Differences
Cultural differences among members of any group - be it a multinational business team or an international family - are frequently the source of misunderstanding...
Bridging the Gaps in Global Communication
This major textbook for a growing area of study provides the reader with the framework necessary for understanding the implications of communication in the global...
Category: Communication & Branding
CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP
The world is coming to America. Visit any city and you will observe persons of many colors and hear languages spoken that represent the many...
Category: Leadership
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition
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
Cultural Advantage: The New Model for Succeeding with Global Teams
It is all too common - and costly - for people in international groups to misunderstand each other. The Cultural Advantage: A New Model for...
Category: Teams
The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around...
A whimsical linguistic tour of foreign words and phrases that do not have precise English-language equivalents includes such entries as the world's longest-known palindrome, the...
Category: Communication
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on...
Category: Communication & Branding, Education, School & Teaching
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right...
The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Cross-Cultural Competence
Cross-cultural management is a crucial challenge for the successful development of international business, yet it is often badly understood and poorly implemented. Misunderstandings arise as...
Category: Management
Consciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Consciousness is perplexing: too familiar and intimate to ignore, too complex and elusive to understand. Although consciousness is embedded in all our experience and is...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Psychology & Counselling
Leading Coherently: Reflections From Leaders Around the World
Leading Coherently draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance, and sustainability. Through sharing their leadership stories,...
Category: Leadership
Transnational Business Cultures: Life and Work in a Multinational Corporation
This volume explores how the idea of 'culture' is used and exploited by transnational managers to further their own ambitions and their companies' strategies for...
Category: Management, Transition
Organizational Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many...
Category: Psychology
Organizational Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many...
Category: Psychology
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today’s Complex World
No one in this country is untouched by the impact of diversity. Yet, as diverse as diversity is, are too the many different emotions and...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional...
Category: Management, Our Reading List
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Psychology
HRD in the Age of Globalization: A Practical Guide To...
The pro- and anti-globalization forces may be logically at odds, but there's little dispute on the inevitability of globalization's forward march. And as Michael Marquardt,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working With Children and...
As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching
Developing Intercultural Awareness: A Cross-Cultural Training
Developing Intercultural Awareness is a rich resource for cross-cultural training. Drawn from the authors' experience, this guide contains simulation games, case studies, icebreakers and other training...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Communication & Branding
Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business
Much more than simply a list of protocols, Cultural Intelligence helps readers develop a mind-set that can be applied to any number of countries, cultures,...
Category: Management
Bridging the Gap: Managing the Cross-Cultural Workplace in Thailand
Bridging the Gap is a goldmine of information to assist foreign and Thai businesspeople working together in Thailand. Bridging the gap is divided into four...
Category: Management
Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education
In this second edition, twenty-nine classic chapters have been revised and updated and twenty new chapters have been added to reflect how the field has...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology
ultural differences affect the way people think, feel, and act. In an increasingly diverse society, multicultural competency in research and counseling is not merely a...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures
In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves quickly in...
Category: Communication & Branding
The Kite Runner
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over. “A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels
Bridging Cultural Conflicts: A New Approach for a Changing World
Bridging Cultural Conflicts answers this need in groundbreaking ways that cut through complexity, replacing confusion with clarity. It introduces mindful awareness, cultural fluency, and conflict fluency...
Category: Conflict
Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication
Derived from the best-selling Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this economically priced paperback version contains only the chapters dealing with cross-cultural and intercultural communication. Cross-Cultural...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cross-cultural Communication: The Essential Guide to International Business
Cross-cultural communication is no longer something confined to a few specialists in large companies; it is a reality for hundreds and thousands of people from...
Category: Communication
Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Cooperate and...
"Philippe Rosinski is a leader in the coaching field. Coaching Across Cultures reveals his pioneering multi-cultural approach and innovative global perspective. His book is a treasure for...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating
Cross-Cultural Survey Methods
PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Since all research is in a sense comparative, it is sometimes argued that methods and requirements remain the same, no...
Category: Coaching, Management
Cross-Cultural Marketing
Cross-Cultural Marketing explores the key roles that multiculturalism plays in different societies and its impact on marketing theory and practice. It delineates current and ground...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World
With the new realities of global interconnectedness comes a greater awareness of cultural diversity from place to place. Besides differences in food and fashion, we...
Category: Culture Shock, Diversity & Inclusion
Doing Business Internationally: The Guide To Cross-Cultural Success
Doing Business Internationally, Second Edition, is a nontechnical, accessible resource for managing today's multicultural organizations. Revised, restructured, and refocused from its classic first edition, it introduces...
Category: Management
International HRM: A Cross-Cultural Approach
The book takes a cross-cultural approach to the study and practice of human resource management by examining the contributions of different cultures in interaction and...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership, Psychology
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership Development
Leadership development is critical to organizational competitive advantage. The key to successful leadership development programs lies in understanding the complex and always-shifting interplay of national...
Category: Leadership
A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures: Making Friends in a...
The global village has arrived. Recent census figures show that communities in the United States are more culturally and ethnically diverse than ever before. And...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and...
The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be...
Category: Management, Our Reading List
The Blackwell Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management
This is the first handbook to provide an overview of the major theoretical perspectives in cross-cultural management and to look at how they can be...
Category: Management
The Psychology of Culture Shock
Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books
Breaking Through Culture Shock: What You Need to Succeed in...
This work looks at the international manager on a professional and personal level, however long- or short-term the assignment may be. It is a practical...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books
Intercultural Communication : A Practical Guide
Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the...
Category: Communication
The Great Courses: Customs of the World Using Cultural Intelligence...
Taught by an international adviser to leaders of Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and governments, this eye-opening course reveals how you can actively improve your cultural...
Category: Management
Foreign to Familiar; A Guide to Understanding Hot- and Cold-...
Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! I highly...
Category: Management, Transition
Organizational Behavior and Change: Managing Diversity, Cross-Cultural Dynamics, and Ethics
Organizational Behavior and Change, 2e provides the reader with a contemporary, real-time, and conceptual approach to understanding organizational change through a concise presentation of current...
Category: Diversity, Management
Innovations in International and Cross-Cultural Management
Presenting cross-cultural research on a wide range of organizational topics, this book ranges from the individual to the macro level. Among the issues examined are:...
Category: Management
India – Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: For Business People, Expatriates and...
Divided in two sections, India - Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
The Diversity Advantage : A Guide to Making Diversity Work
A no-nosense manager's guide that answers the most often asked questions about diversity and its challenges and opportunities in the workplace.
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Resolving Identity-Based Conflict In Nations, Organizations, and Communities
Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in identity conflicts and how to overcome them. Provides a fascinating theoretical introduction to the phenomena, detailed case study...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
Improving Intercultural Interactions: Modules for Cross-Cultural Training Programs
Taking an educational model for counselling, this volume presents training modules relevant for a variety of circumstances from the world of business to that of...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
The Cultural Diversity Sourcebook: Getting Real About Diversity
Award-winning text edited by Dr. Bob Abramms and Dr. George F. Simons. This 505-page landmark anthology presents diversity issues with articles from the traditional business...
Category: Conflict
Intercultural Interactions: A Practical Guide
This new edition of Intercultural Interactions presents a fully updated set of training materials which have been developed to form the basis of a variety of cross-cultural...
Category: Research
Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning -- the classic best seller now considered to be...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
