Challenges of acquiring intercultural communicative competence : based on international students’ perspectives

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Each year thousands of international students enroll in universities across the United States of America. However, we know very little about the challenges they encounter to become competent intercultural communicators in the American academic system. Therefore, the purpose of this is to use the basic components of Deardoff’s Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) model to explore the challenges international students face to acquire requisite attitudes, knowledge, and skills to achieve ICC. The study was conducted through in-depth interviews with eight foreign students who were enrolled in a large Midwestern university during the time of this study. Participants described about their experiences with the intercultural communication that took place between them and their American peers and professors. Results the thematic analysis revealed the presence of four main themes and several sub-themes

Antecedents of Job Satisfaction among Intimate Partner Violence Shelter Staff: Coworker Relational Maintenance Strategies, Communication Satisfaction, Burnout and Organizational Commitment

poster abstractThis study sought to extend prior research by examining the prevalence of relational maintenance strategies between coworkers and the impact of such strategies on work related attitude of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, communication satisfaction, and burnout with work. The targeted samples for this research were the employees of a battered women’s shelter located in Indianapolis, Indiana. A questionnaire was constructed that included established scales in order to measure independent and dependent variables. The questionnaires were distributed among the employees and 47.82% agreed to participate in this study. Regression analyses were conducted to analyze the collected data. The findings indicated the importance of assurances and conflict management among staffs in mitigating their job stresses and increasing their personal accomplishment, communication satisfaction, organizational commitment and job satisfaction