Management Interculturel & Intercultural Management

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. One of the best ways to do this is to adopt an "immigrant mindset."

There are tangible steps that you can take to expand your ability to cultivate intercultural trust.

 Trust is an important issue within intercultural business. Deciding whether you trust someone or not will influence how you work with that person in the present and in the future. Despite the importance of trust, we take trust for granted. What I mean by that is that we rarely examine what trust is or how trust is built, and what is different within intercultural contexts. In addition, we do not realize that how we grant or withhold trust has also been culturally learned.

Forget all the stereotypes about French workers: The work culture differences between France and the U.S. are subtler than you might think -- and they affect the perception of sustainability.

 When we talk about work-life balance, we often point to the European work culture, with its short work weeks and lengthy vacations. But do we also -- at the same time -- think “less productive”?

L’attachement des Français à leur pays d’origine ne les empêchent pas de s’établir massivement à l‘étranger.

You can very rapidly reach the point where you never again utter the words ‘intercultural communication problems.’...

4. Profit

Does profit have a place in the discussion about sustainability? The answer might depend on where you are.

While Areva defines its 10 Sustainable Development commitments consistently around the world, it communicates the sustainability strategies that it is using to meet those commitments differently in different places. That makes being versed in cultural differences a valuable skill for Clise.