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| Dr. George Simons Mandelieu la Napoule, FR |
3 Steps for Effective Intercultural Training 
How do you help people understand and utilize cultural differences, or indeed, understand culture, when so many of us are multicultural? Using examples from aerospace, the India-China-Western European interface, and international social services, this world-renowned consultant walks us through the values-based approach he uses in training. |
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| Dr. Asma Abdullah Kuala Lumpur, MY |
Important Role for Cultural Detective 
How can we ensure our management practices are interculturally productive and inclusive? A corporate anthropologist and ex-HRD specialist in ExxonMobil emphasizes the danger inherent in the universalism-particularism dynamic, and the crucial importance of context. She presents a checklist of questions to ask to better understand indigenous approaches and to more effectively balance the pull between the global and the local. |
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Harvard's Implicit Association Test 
Do you prefer gay over straight, black over white, fat over thin? What are your social biases? Take this online quiz and find out! A team of researchers from Harvard, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington are conducting online research on your unconscious or implicit social preferences. The test requires some focus, and we found it very stimulating. The study examines age, gender, race, sexuality, weight, religion, physical ability, and skin tone, and explains the differences between attitudes, preferences, stereotypes, associations, and beliefs. There are separate sites for Australia, Canada, France, India, South Africa, and the UK. |
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Please Join Us! If you have not yet experienced Cultural Detective, please plan to do so! Upcoming opportunities in Oregon USA, Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA, Côte d'Azur FRANCE, Paris FRANCE, Nagoya JAPAN, and New Jersey USA. Click the link below for more information. SAVE THE DATE! October 2006 in SINGAPORE: "Being Truly Global," a conference sponsored by the Singapore Exhibition (Singex Pte Ltd). Effective management of resources and competitiveness produce profitability, but adding cultural proficiency results in sustainability. This is sure to be a ground-breaking event attended by government representatives of many Asia-Pacific nations as well as multinational executives and development experts. Participants will engage in meaningful dialogue that results in a tool for assessing intercultural organizational competence. Cultural Detective Singapore co-author Kathleen Curran has been asked to head the conference, and series creator Dianne Hofner Saphiere is on the planning committee. |
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Past Issues Online Please visit our online archive for the Cultural Detective newsletter, "Clues to Intercultural Effectiveness." |
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