CULTURAL COLUMN – Successful knowledge transfer across cultures will need to take culturally diverse learning styles across countries and cultures and personalities into consideration.

FROM THE LITERATURE – International Joint Ventures need to re-negotiate practices to provide synergy in the new partnership.

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 – organisations need to invest in building and maintaining high levels of trust in cross cultural business as this correlates positively with innovation, competitive advantage, support for change and increased productivity.

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.

INDUSTRY BRIEFING – we look at the Finance, Education, Health and Age Care Industries and explore challenges and identify experiences to understand the impact of cultural differences in each industry. We propose interventions and solutions to solve the cultural problems.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Managers of culturally diverse teams need intercultural leadership skills to understand the differences in expectations from egalitarian and hierarchical cultures and the impact on preferred management style.

CULTURAL COLUMN – We need to identify the skills and competencies that make the difference between a translator and a culturally competent translator.