The Model To Practice Dialogues MTPD™

The Model to Practice Dialogues™

January 28, 2022

The MTPD fosters awareness about national identity, as a cohesive whole, provides contexts and the impact these have on one’s role in the society. For example, the functioning of marginalized communities. We are educating students, addressing cultural differences, making clear that we share universal rights and dignity no matter where we are from, by emphasizing that one cannot explain away injustices by cultural relativism.

Cultural differences, misunderstandings within an Employment Agency

Cases

Cultural differences, misunderstandings within an Employment Agency

A Montenegrin consultant for an international company headquartered in the Netherlands was interviewed to shine light on international communication in a business environment. The company is mainly viewed as an employment agency, but engages in European building projects as well. Despite the headquarters being located in the Netherlands, majority of the business is done abroad and internationally, with their biggest clients located in Germany. Therefore, the consultant is required to travel abroad quite often, as he is the one responsible for interacting with partners/employees from different cultural backgrounds. Since the clients the company work with in the Netherlands are usually also of different origin due to their specialties in certain industries, the languages spoken differ with each client. The main spoken languages are English, German and Dutch; however, the use of Slavic languages has increased lately.

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Human Resources

Inter-cultural Communications within a multinational company

A Dutch concept development team member working for an Interna-tional HR service provider headquartered in the Netherlands, and op-erating in over 30 countries was our interview subject. The concept development team travels the world on- and offline in order to meet with their global colleagues. With the insights of those meetings with all different operating companies, this team initiates new business concepts or develops existing business concepts. Consequently the business concept team member has had the opportunity to work with and adjust to many different cultures on a daily basis. Therefore he has experienced many different cultures and has adjusted to those cultures.

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Cases

Fashion Retail in New Zealand through Hofstede’s lens

A 19 years-old female New Zealander employee is currently working as retail assistant in a Multinational fashion retail company. The firm started in America and has now expanded to around 136 countries around the world, including New Zealand. This work is complemented by his studies in Auckland University of Technology

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Cases

Diversity is being invited to the party and inclusion is dancing at the party

The interviewee shared that the firm has made a shift to a more “culturally sensitive corporate environment”. A good example of this cultural awareness is that the firm has introduced a policy that allows people to leave a meeting if they feel (culturally) inhibitive or prohibitive with the behavior their col-leagues are presenting. Another shift in the firm is that they are anticipating building a culturally centered diversity community.

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Managing an international company on cultural diversity management

Retail

Managing an international company on cultural diversity management

In this Case Model, the managing director of a direct sales company was interviewed to identify and navigate the way culture influences people in an international work environment. The six cultural dimen-sions according to Geert Hofstede were looked at and used to identify differences. We also looked at what impact cultural limitations have on the employees, how these are dealt with, and in what way language and the interpretation thereof plays a role in preventing and resolving miscommunications.

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