This paper addresses chances and needs to integrate educational games in Information Management Systems of global value chains in the Extended Enterprise. With the development of global value chains misunderstandings due to different cultural habits and rules are an issue. Studies show that lack of intercultural competence results in enormous losses and frictions in negotiations, sales and cust...

This study explored the concepts of intercultural competence and cultural intelligence and clarified corresponding terms. Using the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) as an instrument and conducting multiple regression tests, this quantitative research investigated individual scale factors that would influence the intercultural competence of the students who declared an education major or minor ...

This paper describes, analyses and compares the learning objectives and design of four roleplay simulations involving intercultural communication contexts. The aim is to elicit some practical observations in the search for an effective strategy for the creation of online roleplays that meet learning objectives involving intercultural communication settings. Can learning objectives be designed i...

The article aims to explain what kind of intercultural communication competence is needed in border crossing labor markets. The experiences of international higher education students and information and communications technology (ICT) experts are analyzed in different Finnish working and educational environments. We seek answers to the following questions: How are language and communicative abi...

Effective selection procedures constitute an important factor in increasing expatriate success. However, research lacks findings regarding which skills to screen in international selection processes and whether to base expatriate selection on a culture-specific or culture-general skill profile. In an attempt to gather such evidence, an empirical study was conducted in the United States and Germ...

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This paper describes an approach to teaching ethical intercultural communication. This approach helps students become aware of their own ethnocentric attitudes and helps them move beyond those perspectives to develop a mindful approach to intercultural communication. The paper begins by introducing the concept of mindful communication and the challenges of developing of a code of ethical behavi...

The paper presents a framework, combined with a checklist for designing and evaluating multimodal, intercultural ICT, especially when embodied artificial communicators are used as front ends for data bases, as digital assistants, as tutors in pedagogical programs or players in games etc. Such a framework is of increasing interest, since the use of ICT across cultural boundaries in combination w...

cultural integration and social admission among ethnicities is one of the most trusted ways to reach social integration in multiethnic society of iran. using a sociological approach, this thesis assesses the extent of intercultural sensitivity and its associated factors among kurds and turks of the city of qurve. according to the theoretical sextuplet model of intercultural sensitivities of mil...

Language communication ability refers to the use language in society. The acquisition of this by second learners mostly relies on textbook dialogues adapted from real-life conversations. Therefore, whether scripted conversations can help improve learners’ should be taken seriously academic circle. This paper has analyzed all conversational texts book Functioning an Intercultural Community, usin...