Cross-Cultural Training in Pediatric Residency: Every Encounter Is a Cross-Cultural Encounter

Cross - Cultural Training a Review

ROGRAMS designed for preparing people for living in another culture are usually referred to as “Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Orientation Programs.” It seems that the early practitioners and researchers viewed preparing people for international assignment as a process in which one needed to be oriented to the differences in social interactions between the two cultures. It is no surprise that ...

Cultural Influences on Wilderness Encounter Responses

During the summer of 1992, backpackers were interviewed in Urho Kekkonen National Park in northeastern Finland. As the Finnish Forest and Park Service prepares to deal with increasing numbers of users at this park, knowledge is needed about how visitors respond to encountering other people in various places within the park. For these backpackers, response to encounters with other people is depe...

A situated cultural approach for cross-cultural studies in IS

Cultural anthropology seeks to understand the similarities and differences among groups of people in the contemporary world. Although there are many different models of national culture, most IS research has tended to rely almost solely on Hofstede’s cultural model (Keil et al., 2000; Straub, 1994; Tan et al., 1995; Watson et al., 1994; Myers and Tan, 2002; Kirkman et al. 2006).). This paper, p...

Cross-Cultural Training in Business Chinese

Developing Believable Interactive Cultural Characters for Cross-Cultural Training

One path to training for cross-cultural competency is through immersion in a target culture, but real immersion can be expensive. Virtual immersion may be a viable alternative, but only if the experience is realistic and compelling enough. The characters in the virtual environment must embody the behaviors of the people in that culture in a way that is realistic and believable to facilitate tra...