By Vincent Merk, Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Management & Community Advisor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are popular topics at the moment in society in general and in business and academia in particular. Consequently, it was natural to address this issue during the SIETAR Switzerland (S-CH) congress this year: not […]
Reviewed by Tawa Braimah, Editor SIETAR Switzerland newsletter At the risk of falling into the alluring trap of methodological nationalism, I would like to say that, for me, growing up in a typical African society like Ghana’s, it was clear that the concept of leadership hinged on hierarchy. According to my reflections on leadership as […]
by Dr. Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick Employers frequently identify the ability to work effectively in diverse teams, including the ability to communicate and relate well with others, as one of the crucial skill sets they are looking for in graduates (e.g. British Council, 2013, 2018; Coffelt & Smith, 2020; Diamond, Walkley, Forbes, Hughes, & […]
Among the participants at SIETAR Switzerland’s May congress in Lugano were a group of first-year Master’s students from the Université de Bourgogne whose professor, Alexander Frame, specializes in intercultural communication. Professor Frame and SIETAR Switzerland President Anne-Claude Lambelet came up with a plan to enrich everyone’s experience of the congress and, hopefully, provide Frame’s students […]
Intercultural interaction comes naturally to me, since I’m a Finnish-Latvian of Russian descent currently living in The Hague! In 2012, I graduated from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) with a master’s degree in intercultural communication. My work involves teaching and developing e-learning methods. The congress in Lugano provided a chance for me to re-connect with […]
The Challenges and Trends of Multinational Corporations in Dealing with Cultural Diversity through HR Practices: Recruitment and Selection and Training and Development In a globalized and highly competitive market, the need for human capital has become more and more prevalent, and organizations seem to be face a series of challenges in dealing with diversity. Similarly, […]
As SIETAR’s academic advisor, my column will review results of recent research relevant to readers. In this first column, my assistant and doctoral student, Gian Hernandez, and I review several recently published articles on diversity and workplace relations. Scholars have shown that social relations and social support among employees enhance a sense of well-being, both […]
On 26 May 2016, Frédéric Docquier, Professor of Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, gave an NCCR conference on “Income disparities, population and migration flow over the 21st century.” Without minimizing the importance of the current refugee crisis, his analysis adopts a longer-term perspective and focuses on the structural forces that affected past […]
Attending the IACCM and SIETAR Austria conference in Vienna in October was both interesting and inspiring. There was a lot of talk about needing to focus on moving away from people’s country profiles and using nationality as an identifier. There were also workshops focusing on differences between generation X and Y/millennials, in particular how the […]
When Stefan Kammhuber and I sat down for our interview, he had just returned from a trip to Russia. I took it for a good sign. We had never met before that October morning, but we already had one thing in common besides our profession – our appreciation of St. Petersburg. By the end of […]
