Enhancing Business Students’ Cross-Cultural Skills

Developing Intercultural Skills for Business Students

Intercultural skills have been increasingly important to business graduates operating in global economies. This paper evaluates the adaptation of the ExcelL Intercultural Skills Program to an international human resource management course, and examines the effectiveness of integrating case study methods with the skills-based ExcelL program. The primary purpose of the study was to assess the use...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Getting down to business: Teaching cross-cultural social interaction skills in a serious game

We consider the use of virtual humans and an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for the teaching of cultural social conventions. Our learning environment is a serious game that requires the learner to establish trust and reach agreements with virtual characters of a different culture. An intelligent tutoring system provides culturally focused learning support during and after the meetings with t...

Cross-Cultural Training in Business Chinese

Information Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Study of Ethical Decision-Making between U.S. and Chinese Business Students

The purpose of this study is to explore cross-cultural differences between U.S. and Chinese business students in their rationales for ethical decision-makingwith respect tocommon information-related ethical dilemmas. Wefound thatthe dimensions (i.e., moral equity, relativism, egoism, contractualism, and utilitarianism) of the multidimensional ethics scale (MES) had varying influences on the eth...