ACCULTURATION AND ALLIED CONTRIBUTING FACTORS THAT FURTHER ADVANCE CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND EDUCATION: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH

• Published in: Journal of organizational culture, communication and conflict Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Calvin, James R, Beale, Ruby L, Moore, Kelvyn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Allied Business Academies 01.01.2017
• Subjects: 20th century; Acculturation; Artificial intelligence; Asian Americans; Automation; Behavior; Business; Business education; Colleges & universities; Corporate culture; Cross cultural management; Cultural anthropology; Cultural conflict; Cultural factors; Culture; Digitization; Education; Education work relationship; Educational leadership; Emotional intelligence; Governance; Higher education; Internet of Things; Leadership; Machine learning; Management; Manufacturing; Marketing; Multiculturalism & pluralism; New technology; Organizational change; Organizations; Social responsibility; Social sciences; Training; Viability; Work organization; Workplaces; Washington DC; San Francisco California; United States > US
• ISSN: 1544-0508; 1939-4691

Globally there is critical need for new ideas, thought and research in support of practice that integrates the domains of culture and inter-cultures, cross-cultural management and learning and training for diverse people doing work in global assignments. We think that the reason is that many kinds of organizations want to develop and put in place practical approaches and ways that enable multicultural leaders and groups to communicate better to enhance their working together around the world. The authors draw on some of our recent work in global organizations that ranges from banking, food and snacks, higher education, retail and manufacturing that together are being influenced by digitization amidst new technologies where humans increasingly face competition in workplaces where there is advancing artificial intelligence, next generation robots and machine learning. Several of the CEO led founders and partnering organizations are Catalyst, Deloitte, the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Target and Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility (HACR) and Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP). In brief, there are a number of other leading companies and organizations that are also active pioneers and they are mentioned later in this article. As such, there is a parallel need in the shifting field of multicultural management which is to sustain preparation and viability for ongoing organizational change and automation in business and governance systems. The capacity to consider, rethink and suggest new strategies and approaches for future intercultural understanding can be achieved by bringing people together toward a purpose to reduce potential cultural conflict by bridging and co-creating from knowledge insights and theory into approaches toward implementation. The global need is critical for new research and into management practice that integrates across domains of culture and inter-cultures, cross-cultural management and multicultural management, learning and training of expatriate workforces for global assignments, as well as preparing for ongoing organizational change in business and governance systems. In such a way the capacity to devise and access acculturation strategies can be enabling of diverse managers through approaches for future implementation by business that we envision as being conceptually anchored by a number of theories, ideas and approaches. Toward that goal, the authors in this paper present as a conceptual framing an idea for the promoting of inventive approaches that are keys for cross-cultural management applications and practices. The paper further seeks to place into context various skill and practice intelligences that are combined into cross-cultural management and international management essentials to be considered in a wide array of organizations.