“Just Open the Door”: Cultural Compatibility and Classroom Rapport

2017 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Cathie Jordan ◽  
Roland G. Tharp ◽  
Lynn Baird-Vogt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Compatibility

Partner selection

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-202
Author(s):  
John Child ◽  
David Faulkner ◽  
Stephen Tallman ◽  
Linda Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Partner Selection ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Environmental Orientation ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
Alliance Partners ◽  
Technology Orientation

Chapter 9 considers the critical issue of what sort of company would make a good partner. It notes that most companies assess their prospective partners in terms of the complementarity of their assets and skills and the possible synergies that arise as a result of them. Fewer, however, devote sufficient attention to the cultural compatibility between the partners. Yet this factor is often responsible for the breakdown of alliances. The culture web (symbols, power structures, organization structure, controls, rituals and routines, and stories) depicted by Johnson et al. (2017) and the cultural profile (employee orientation, environmental orientation, international orientation, customer orientation, technology orientation, innovation orientation, cost orientation, and quality orientation) proposed by Bronder and Pritzl (1992) are both useful tools for assessing the presence of cultural difference between prospective alliance partners and hence the likelihood of culturally-related problems arising.

Traditional Kiribati beliefs about environmental issues and its impacts on rural and urban communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruiti Aretaake
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Government

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report how the encouragement of collaboration between local stakeholders, communities and the government helps slow the great impact of disaster risks and the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and lives. It also describes how promoting the acceptance and contributions of traditional knowledge in this effort owing to their accessibility and affordability and their cultural compatibility with the community contributes to addressing the challenges in Kiribati faces. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on government and NGO reports, as well as other documentary sources, this paper examines the nature of current efforts and the state of community practices in Kiribati. Findings Disaster risks and climate change are currently destroying all facets of I-Kiribati life. It is, therefore, imperative that a holistic form of partnership bringing together both state and non-state actors and that through this community awareness be implemented within the Kiribati policies and community development programs to improve dissemination of prevention and risk reduction programs, while maintaining the cultural infrastructure. Social implications Access to modern technologies and factors which inhibit local utilization of natural resources as well as traditional Kiribati beliefs about environment issues and impacts on people illustrate the potential and difficulties of convergence of new ideas with traditional knowledge. Originality/value The Kiribati “Frontline” project is an activity which has been led by the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific Kiribati, both stimulated and in part subsidized by the Global Network for Disaster Reduction that provided financial support to work with rural and urban communities on mitigating disaster risks and climate change issues.

scholarly journals Factoring in Societal Culture in Policy Transfer Design: the Proliferation of Private Sponsorship of Refugees

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bertram ◽  
Ammar Maleki ◽  
Niels Karsten
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Transfer Processes ◽  
Societal Culture ◽  
Private Sponsorship ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
Suboptimal Design ◽  
Successful Transfer

AbstractThe Canadian model of private sponsorship schemes (PSS) for refugees is becoming an increasingly popular target for policy transfer in the field of migration. This article argues that the influence of societal culture on this transplanting process has played an underexplored role in the literature. We seek to provide original guidance for factoring in cultural elements into the policy transfer framework by demonstrating how specific design choices in PSS transfer display clear cultural associations. A tentative study of nine countries that have adopted different models of PSS corroborates this hypothesis empirically. Our preliminary findings suggest that cultural compatibility may indeed increase the effectiveness of a policy transfer in some instances, while culturally preferred choices being adopted in other cases may result in suboptimal design. This converse interplay indicates that cultural awareness constitutes a crucial element of successful transfer processes and stresses the need to adopt a culturally sensitive perspective more frequently and more explicitly.

Major cultural-compatibility complex: considerations on cross-cultural dissemination of patient safety programmes: Figure 1

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 612-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heon-Jae Jeong ◽  
Julius C Pham ◽  
Minji Kim ◽  
Cyrus Engineer ◽  
Peter J Pronovost
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
Cultural Dissemination ◽  
Compatibility Complex

The perceived cultural compatibility index: an extension

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Runge ◽  
David S. Hames ◽  
Corrinne S. Shearer
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Index ◽  
Cultural Compatibility

scholarly journals Analysis of migration processes in the EU and the theory of multiculturalism: current state and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
В. О. Пашков ◽  
В. І. Правдін
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The article deals with the problem of the migration crisis that has hit the EU. Since 2015, there has been a sharp increase in the number of refugees from the region, to which European countries were not ready. By the end of 2019, Europe has already exhausted its economic capacity to receive and accommodate refugees, but their flow is continuing. Over the last 5 years, more than 4 million refugees from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have come to Europe. In 2015, the flow of migrants was over 1.5 million people, in 2016 - 900 000, in 2017 - 650 000, in 2018 - 600 000, in 2019 - almost 550 000.The main causes of large-scale movement of migrants to Europe have been identified. Among them are wars and conflicts that destabilize the situation in their native countries; demographic outbreak in Africa and the Middle East, deteriorating funding for refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, exacerbation of the 2018-2019 Syrian crisis; the availability of high social guarantees and diaspora relatives in many EU countries.The political, social, cultural consequences of the migration crisis for individual countries and the EU are analyzed. The increasing flow of refugees has exacerbated in European societies the problems of terrorism, the increase in crime rates, the poor cultural compatibility of the local population with refugees, the increased right-wing sentiment and the high social costs of migrant adaptation.The importance of the ideology of multiculturalism for the current migration crisis in the EU is substantiated. The phenomenon of multiculturalism is compared with the phenomena of globalization and shows the impact on the situation in society, which lead to conflict. Multiculturalism has recently been perceived as a means that can mitigate the negative (primarily for traditional cultures, ethnic and religious groups) consequences of globalization, but narrowing the philosophical view of the phenomenon of multiculturalism to the institutional level, modern representatives of the humanities and practices in Europe (political scientists, sociologists, politicians) faced with the fact that the interaction of cultures has not been adequately reflected in theory and held in practice.

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