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.
A purchaser based in the Netherlands who is working for a Japanese multination company with headquarters based in Tokyo offering digital solutions.
The company is a French telecom and digital consulting company based in Paris but operating world-wide. For this dossier we interviewed the CEO and founder.
Abstract With the increasing levels of multiculturalism in today’s business and the proliferation and essentiality of information systems, development and management of IS needs to
ABSTRACTThis study combined the results from 95 TAM articlesto examine the impact of uncertainty avoidance onnational culture and technology acceptance. Thismeta-analysis was based on 342
Abstract In this study, we investigated how certain cultural values influenced Chinese and Spanish university teachers’ intentions to use technology. 426 Chinese university teachers and
A Dutch Marketing & Communications manager is working for an international company headquartered in London, active in the security industry. The company is located in more than 85 countries and serves customers in 1,300 different industries.
Have you ever experienced working with someone from a different country or culture and somehow it just feels…odd? It is needless to say that people from different cultures act, speak, dress, communicate, and work different-ly, but that does not mean that there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. In this paper, the researchers demonstrate that intercultural competences are of great value in today’s multicultural companies, because they help us understand people with different backgrounds so that working with someone from another cul-ture suddenly does not feel odd anymore, but is exciting, mind-opening, and even informative in a way. We just need the right tools to see and un-derstand the differences. The example of the employee who was born and raised in Thailand, and is now working in a Dutch company, shows readers that their cultural background hugely influenced the interpretation of the Dutch behavior. Taking advantage of the Hofstede Model and the Erin Mey-er Culture Map gives people like this employee the opportunity to make themselves aware of their own interpretations and why they think and act the way they do. They can place themselves in dimensions to see the bigger picture. After they have understood themselves, they can start to interpret other’s behaviors without major prejudice and widen their horizon to then find their place in this globalized world.
A group of four students, two from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, one from Kozminski University in Warsaw Poland, and one from Auckland University of technology in Auckland New Zealand conducted an interview with a male Bulgarian national who has lived in Amsterdam for five years. The interviewee works for an American company with British colleagues that focus on business performance. The interview works predominantly with British and Dutch colleagues and clients. The aim of the interview was to identify any cultural limitations within the interviewee’s work environment. Cultural limitations identified were primarily centred around miscommunication caused by the conflict in high-context and low-context communication styles and expectations around workplace etiquette.
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.
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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