Intercultural Business Communication - Interaktive Studienpläne der TU Ilmenau

Good command of the English language

• know theories and models of the field of "intercultural competences" and are able to apply them in
• different fields of action;
• enhance their awareness and develop strategies for challenges in cross cultural cooperations
• are able to change perspectives, to analyse situations from international business point of view
• and to develop or adapt coping strategies for action;
• know conflict solution strategies and can apply them in intercultural contexts;
• deepened their intercultural competence as a key qualification.

"Only the heart can see well" from "The little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

PowerPoint, flipchart, blackboard, video

• Christoph Barmeyer, Peter Franklin, Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy, Red Globe Press
• Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures, Nicholas Brealey International
• Yang Liu, East meets West, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz
• Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures, PublicAffairs
• Stefanie Rathje, University of Jena, Intercultural Competence: The Status and Future of a Controversial Concept, http://stefanie-rathje.de
• Christian Scholz, Volker Stein, "Competitive Acceptance" in Cross-Cultural Interaction, Gabler Verlag
• Sylvia Schroll-Machl, Doing Business with Germans. Their Perception, Our Perception, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Friedemann Schulz von Thun, Talking with each other 1: Troubles and clarifications. General Psychology of Communication, rororo
  

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