Create-A-Culture: An Experiential Approach To Cross Cultural Communication Dynamics

This small group activity uses a pseudo-simulation approach to explore dynamics of enculturation, acculturation, third culture, and diaspora and the resulting influences upon cross-cultural communication competence. All human communication contexts are influenced by perceptual patterns which, in turn, are shaped by culture-based norms and views. Furthermore, as asserted by E.T. Hall, significant linkages exist between a group’s cultural influences and its communication practices. This guided, collaborative learning exercise also draws on the inherent diversity within the students’ personal cultural backgrounds and previous culture-based studies as they work together to create new (hypothetical) co-cultural groups. Through this multi-step exercise, students “experience” the long term processes by which a group develops its culture—as manifested in its observable elements, values, and contextual sensibilities. Students are encouraged to use their imaginations as informed by their historical, geographical, and anthropological knowledge in order to consider beyond their own personal cultural realities. This activity, which can be adjusted to a wide variety of class sizes and session-lengths, accomplishes several additional pedagogical objectives, including: collaborative learning, exploration of culture-based principles, and the application of systems theory to human communication practices (input-throughput-output)

Understanding the relevance of national culture in international business research: a quantitative analysis

This review is a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the International Business literature whose focus is on national culture. The analysis relies on a broad range of bibliometric techniques as productivity rankings, citation analysis (individual and cumulative), study of collaborative research patterns, and analysis of the knowledge base. It provides insights on (I) faculty and institutional research productivity and performance; (II) articles, institutions, and scholars’ influence in the contents of the field and its research agenda; and (III) national and international collaborative research trends. The study also explores the body of literature that has exerted the greatest impact on the researched set of selected articles.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

How Can Companies Harness a Learning Organization to Lead the Collaborative Culture?

Employees in multinational companies tend to become departmentalized by business processes, and are increasingly losing touch with their organizations’ goals and strategies. Learning Organization is a concept that focuses on the interconnectedness among employees in the same organizations by collaborating interdepartmentally and maintaining knowledge on new strategies, products, services, industries, and their macro-environment in order to give their organizations the competitive advantages over competitors. Our research investigated the best practices and made conclusions on how to implement the mentioned cross-functional concept

Leadership: professional communities of leadership practice in post-compulsory education

Summary: This is a paper that reviews and outlines the academic basis behind leadership in the post-compulsory setting. Description: Leadership has been for some years a key area of strategic and operational importance in the UK post-compulsory sector - this publication aims to addresss some of the issues surrounding this topic. It discusses theories and definitions of leadership, leader professionalism and post-compulsory education. A collaborative model of professional leadership is recommended, informed by authentic, democratic dialogue with practitioners. Coalitions that foster professional networking and collaborative leadership can be creatively developed through the establishment of intentionally designed communities of leadership practice. The CAMEL (Collaborative Approaches to the Management of e-Learning) JISC infoNet HEFCE/LGM-funded model for communities of practice is discussed as one model which provides a useful template for the development of shared knowledge through professional communities of practice in collaborative leadership. It is argued that this provides a helpful way of enabling and supporting leaders to advance their understanding and ‘know how' in leadership practices in a sector currently facing significant challenges from demanding external targets and continuous monitoring in an ‘audit culture’. The publication also and gives examples of good practice and many references and links for information

Operationalisation of the organisational orientation and culture construct in service value networks

Todays service organisations increasingly operate as part of a larger service system or Service Value Network (SVN). This requires organisations to develop a work culture which encourages collaboration, communication, creativity, risk taking and empowerment among their members, and motivates employees to question fundamental beliefs and work patterns. This paper develops the Organisational Orientation and Culture (OOC)-construct for building a sustainable SVN, and comprises four key cultures and orientations from the literature: entrepreneurial orientation, collaborative culture, learning orientation, and market/customer orientation. Using empirical data from a large Australian telecommunications SVN, and through the use of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) (using a holdout sample), this paper demonstrates that Collaborative Culture, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and a newly merged factor Freedom of Speech Culture emerge as the predominant underlying factors of culture for contemporary collaborative service organisations

The ICLARM-CLSU integrated animal-fish farming project: poultry-fish and pig-fish trials

The two papers in this report contain the progressive results of experiments in integrated animal-fish farming at the Freshwater Aquaculture Center of the Central Luzon State University (CLSU), Philippines, a collaborative project between ICLARM and CLSU.Integrated farming, Fish culture, Philippines, Sarotherodon niloticus, Cyprinus carpio, Ophicephalus striatus

Positively Deviant Organizational Performance and the Role of Leadership Values

Cameron cites the infusion of collaborative values and restructuring of relationships as a primary reason for the successful clean up and closure of Rocky Flats, one of U.S.’s most hazardous and controversial toxic dumps. Success was contingent upon mutual trust and respect of and between traditionally adversarial groups by adopting a mutual proactive, sharing orientation and empathetic attitudes. The true leaders in this venture shifted from a profit-first stance to changing organizational culture, ensuring that individuals (especially leaders and influencers) pursued an abundance-based vision