Courses for intercultural trainers at LTS in Bath, UK
During autumn 2010 and throughout 2011, LTS Training and Consulting in Bath will be running more sessions of their highly successful courses for trainers.
International team Trust Indicator Consultants Workshop
An invitation to a WorkWork Workshop on The International Team Trust Indicator
Doing business in Venezuela
“This is a country where networking is important since it broadens your base of personnel who might have a connection you need" writes Kwintessential.
Business and the economy in Portugal
"Portugal is not Greece has been a popular refrain among European policymakers during the tumultuous past few months" writes the Financial Times in its special report on Portugal.
Business and the economy in Egypt
"The economy as a whole is performing better than ever, largely because the government has at last abandoned its old habits of central planning, state-managed capital allocation, high taxes and price controls" writes The Economist newspaper.
Doing business in Bangladesh
"In Bangladesh it is quite possible for an expatriate to develop a business relationship relatively quickly provided he/she does not adopt a "dominant, know-all approach" from the outset" writes Centre for Intercultural Learning of Canada.
Experienced Latin America expert required in Paris
Communicaid are currently looking for an experienced intercultural specialist who can deliver a ’Working successfully with Latin America’ cultural awareness training programme in Paris.
Experienced UK expert required in Singapore
Communicaid are currently looking for an experienced intercultural specialist who can deliver a Working successfully with British Colleagues training programme on the ground in Singapore in early October.
International Communications Strategy: Developments in cross-cultural communications, PR and social media
by Silvia Cambié and Yang-May Ooi
A review by Richard Hill, Britain & Belgium
With a title like that, you would expect to find something about the finer points of communicating across cultures.
Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU
by Ettore Recchi and Adrian Favell, eds.
A review by George Simons, USA & France and Katrin Volt, Estonia & France
Free movement within the EU is an extraordinary human accomplishment that, it is hoped, will produce a sense of European identity without obliterating the cultural richness of European diversity, is the view taken by the editors of this volume.
International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading
by Gavin Jack and Robert Westwood
A review by dialogin member George Simons, USA and France
Jack and Westwood have accomplished a tour-de-force review of management research and literature, the development of its intercultural perspectives and, in particular, their prevailing parochialisms.
Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective
by Carolyn Calloway-Thomas
A review by dialogin member Patrick Schmidt, USA and France
As any good trainer knows, empathy is deeply embedded in, and inseparable from, intercultural sensitivity.
Intercultural learning via instant messenger interaction
by Li Jin and Tony Erben
"This paper reports on a qualitative study investigating the viability of instant messenger (IM) interaction to facilitate intercultural learning in a foreign language class" write the authors in this research paper.
Corpus linguistics and culture - call for papers
CULTUS: the intercultural journal of mediation and communication is seeking contributions on corpus linguistics and contextual / cultural aspects of text, discourse and communication across languages.