CULTURAL COLUMN – Strategies to deal with culture at work: to accommodate, to avoid, to dominate, to compromise or to synergies to overcome cultural challenges.

CULTURAL COLUMN – To benefit from cultural diversity,  multicultural organisations invest in developing intercultural competence: it prevents staff turnover and communication breakdown.

FROM THE LITERATURE – The MBI Model facilitates the consideration of cultural differences in decision-making and performance processes.

FROM THE LITERATURE – Significant variations exist in response styles across countries. Consequently, correlating cross-national staff satisfaction with management performance may lead to inaccurate or unjust conclusions.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Humour is culturally influenced and you better be aware of it before using your favourite joke. It might just cost you the deal…

CULTURAL COLUMN – The way we perceive time is part of our cultural programming. Dealing with people at work who have a preference for a different approach to time can make us feel uneasy and frustrated.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Global success depends on sophisticated and flexible global talent that have developed a high level of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) over time. 

CULTURAL COLUMN – The concept of ‘Face’ is differently understood across cultures. Being able to effectively practice ‘saving Face’ and raising people’s social standing and self worth seems to produce much better long-term business outcomes across cultures.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Bicultural competent professionals deliver a competitive edge in culturally diverse and global work situation.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Different cultures have very different ideas as to how rules, morals, and laws should be applied causing much cross-cultural surprise, confusion and frustration.