This guide offers practical advice and insights for navigating cultural challenges during foreign stays. With a hands-on approach featuring classical art, quotes, and exercises, it helps readers understand cross-cultural issues and develop intercultural competence for a richer global experience.
This useful guidebook is the only intercultural text that explains the different organizational behaviors between Germany and the United States. The comparative method is used so that the reader is able to immediately grasp where the differences are and become conscious of his or her own national uniqueness an ideal tool for overcoming intercultural misunderstand ings. Whether German or American, this book will stimulate your understanding of both sides to an increasingly important partnership-equation. In seven chapters, the reader will discover: Culture The unspoken assumptions of a culture Theoretical frameworks Psychology Characteristics of Germans and Americans Historical analysis of the two psychologies