Speaker: Bob Dignen – York Associates Interculturalists aim to provide essential support to leaders working internationally, developing competencies relevantto working across cultures. However, it is timely to reflect on the purpose, process and relevance of...
Categoria: 2015
The X-Y integration: why and how for the success of the company strategies and results (in English)
Rescheduled Facilitator: Maura Di Mauro What are the characteristics of generation X and of generation Y? Why do companies need to consider XY generation integration? What problems can companies face if they do not properly manage the XY generation integration...
Culture and HRM in the Middle East: A Case Study Approach
Speakers: Pari Namazie & Barbara Covarrubias Venegas Global competition leads to globalised business and thus begs the question of how HR can best support business in the face of global integration and coordination while maintaining local flexibility. This...
Immigrazione albanese in Lombardia, Italia: dal progetto migratorio all’integrazione socio-culturale. Quali storie? Quali strategie?
Facilitatrice: Elvira Elisa Kalaj Una presentazione e una riflessione a posteriori di un lavoro di ricerca fatta in due tappe. La prima per studiare il progetto migratorio a partire dalle radici, la famiglia di partenza, nucleare, allargata o patriarcale, che delinea...
Forget about Intercultural Training! & Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership
Sabato 28 marzo dalle 14.30 alle 18.30 si terranno due workshop aperti a Soci e Amici a Belgirate (VB) sul Lago Maggiore con il Patrocinio del Comune di Belgirate in Scalone Cairoli 3 presso Sala Borsieri Forget about Intercultural Training! Speaker: Callegarin...
SIETAR Italia Annual Conference 2015
You are invited to the 7th SIETAR Italia AGM and the two-day conference of talks and workshops. Programme (Italian to English translation will be provided during workshops in Italian): SATURDAY 14th February 2015 9.00-11.00 From intercultural to...
Conferenza Annuale 2015
Siete invitati alla nostra 7° Assemblea Ordinaria dei Soci con un ricco corollario di talks e workshops. Cliccate sui titoli degli incontri per l'abstract e il biodata degli speakers. Programma: (con la lingua dell'intervento. Se richiesto, verrà fornita...
Praticare la FILOSOFIA: insieme, alla ricerca di un senso
Facilitator: Paolo Cervari - Filosofo Con il termine Pratiche Filosofiche si designa oggi un'insieme di discipline e procedure ormai collaudate e affermate da diversi anni, specialmente nel mondo nord europeo e anglosassone (particolarmente Germania, Olanda,...
Some Thoughts Concerning Cross-Cultural Leadership
Speaker: Bettina Gehrke – SDA Bocconi Cross-cultural management provides us with important understanding of how people relate to each other. Today we can refer to a considerable amount of knowledge about how cultural values impact leadership preferences. We know that...
Diversity Management and Migrant Workers in Lombard Organizations: a promising – and challenging – picture from the field
Speaker: Massimiliano Monaci – Università Cattolica Since the early 2000s, in Italy – as in many other national contexts – Diversity Management (DM) has gained remarkable visibility as a theoretical and practical approach aimed at promoting workplaces that can favour...
The Competitive Advantage of Diversity related to International Migrations for the Economic and Social Development of European Society
Speaker: Laura Zanfrini – Università Cattolica The European approach to the government of migrations is traditionally characterized by an emphasis on the labour dimension: this is pivotal for the social acceptance of Third Country Nationals, but has been nurturing the...
An Intercultural Experience with the Burmese Children of Sittwe
Speaker: Anna Maria Natalini – ABC President (Burmese Children Association) La mia è una testimonianza (supportata da una serie di slides) di un’esperienza interculturale vissuta sul campo, nello specifico la Birmania, a Sittwe, tra gli orfani dell’Arkan. Con...
Intercultural Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives
Speaker: Giuseppe Cognetti – Siena University Today in the coexistence of our increasingly multi-ethnic societies, it is important to open ourselves to pluralism not only theoretically but above all existentially. This does not involve the loss of our values, beliefs...
The Intercultural Dialogue and the Challenge of our Time
Speaker: Maria Roberta Cappellini – CIRPIT President We are living in an age of transition, the old myths (visions of life) have died and the new ones have not yet emerged; as Panikkar affirmed, we have to prepare the ground for a new “myth” based on pluralism, peace...
Helping our Clients Do Business in North Africa
Facilitator: Alessandra Bonezzi – Intercultural Trainer The seminar is intended to be an introductory round-up of things to consider when starting to do business in North Africa, and in particular in Tunisia in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab spring. The objective is...
Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership? (English only)
Facilitator: Jane Everett – Intercultural Trainer Shakespeare offers non-prescriptive advice and key insights into the workings of the human mind and human nature as well as practical techniques to motivate and inspire others around us. Inspired by the five practices...
Forget about Intercultural Training!
Speaker: Myriam Callegarin - Coach Why don’t leaders and organizations recognize that intercultural training could significantly increase their chances to succeed in global business? Is intercultural training really the most effective way to develop global leadership...
Gender, Power, Hierarchy: A Practical Exploration of the Limitations of Intercultural Training Concepts
Speakers: Judith Mader & Rudi Camerer – ELC Frankfurt Some aspects which may seriously affect the success of practical international communication have rarely been addressed in intercultural training courses in the past, among them questions relating to GENDER....
From Intercultural to Systemic – a Time to Abandon an Irrelevant Discourse?
Speaker: Bob Dignen – York Associates Interculturalists aim to provide essential support to leaders working internationally, developing competencies relevantto working across cultures. However, it is timely to reflect on the purpose, process and relevance of...