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Intercultural Competence in Organizations

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This chapter brings a logical close the journey into the world of intercultural competence by explaining how practitioners and trainers develop intercultural competence in their organizations. This chapter presents the reader with the current frameworks of intercultural competence development. The chapter completes with the examples of intercultural competence development and with a futuristic insight on intercultural competence in organizations.

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  • Beamer, L. (1992). Learning intercultural communication competence. The Journal of Business Communication, s(3), 285–303.

  • Bennett, M. J., & Hammer, M. R. (2006). The intercultural development inventory (IDI): Individual profile. Portland, OR: The Intercultural Communication Institute.

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  • Korhonen, K. (2004). Developing intercultural competence as part of professional qualifications: A training experiment. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 7, Retrieved August 30, 2011, from http://www.immi.se/intercultural/

  • Lane, H. C. (2007). Metacognition and the development of intercultural competence. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA.

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Matveev, A. (2017). Acquiring Intercultural Competence. In: Intercultural Competence in Organizations. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45701-7_6

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