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1	Cross-cultural Comunication in International Organizations Onkhaw, Yata, Fedorova, Natalia January 2019 (has links) Problem: While the multinational teams consisting of members from different nationalities,backgrounds and cultures have advantages of diversity in the workplace, the differencesbetween team members can also pose the challenges. Our study focuses on InformationTechnology (IT) project teams in organizations located in Sweden. The rapid growth oftechnology and IT sector, increasing demand in IT professionals, and the knowledge ofwriting universal code allow people to work internationally regardless of citizenship.Therefore, the workforce in the IT sector is rapidly growing and diversifying — it ischaracterized by teams consisting of different nationalities. However, these differences incultures, languages and nationalities can complicate the communication processes betweenthe team members. Therefore, efficient cross-cultural communication within a team isessential for team collaboration and performance. Purpose: The study aims to find the significant issues in the process of adaptation to the newculturally diverse environment faced by immigrant professionals in IT project teams. Thestudy mainly focuses on an individual level, consequently expanding it to a collective level,as the related challenges refer to collaboration among the team members. Method: The study was conducted by interviewing immigrant professionals who have beenworking in IT project teams in the companies, located in Sweden. The participants belong tosix different nationalities and have worked in Sweden for approximately 2-8 years. They areall male aged between 30-33 years old. After the interviews, we can present findings, whichdemonstrate the points of similarity and difference. Conclusion: Technology, which is a significant factor in IT projects, constantly changes, andtherefore, IT project teams that work with innovation require high adaptability to explore newopportunities. That makes effective coordination and communication essential. In theculturally diverse team, managers should manage global mindset and cultural intelligence forindividuals to help team members in adaptation process. Cross-cultural training should beprovided to the migrant professionals in the team to avoid miscommunication based oncultural differences, hence overcoming challenges. cross-cultural communication multinational teams immigrant professionals Swedish IT project teams diversity culture Business Administration Företagsekonomi
2	Career Compromise in Immigrant Professionals in Canada Lau, Karen Gah-Ian 01 January 2011 (has links) This study presents the investigation of the career transition experience of immigrant skilled workers with a focus on their experiences with career compromise and the coping strategies that they used. The grounded theory approach of qualitative analysis method was used to analyze 20 interview transcripts with participants who had received their education/training and had at least 1 year of work experience prior to immigrating to Canada. The interviews revealed that the career transition journeys of immigrant skilled workers were thwarted with acculturation and career-seeking barriers, which made their career transition experiences quite compromising. The findings support the notion of positive compromise whereby the participants utilized their human agency and open-mindedness to deal with their career compromise. An immigrant vocational theory and an immigrant career compromise theory are proposed. Practical implications and future research directions are discussed. career compromise immigrant skilled workers career transition Canada career immigrant professionals immigrants career development Guidance and Counseling 0519
3	Career Compromise in Immigrant Professionals in Canada Lau, Karen Gah-Ian 01 January 2011 (has links) This study presents the investigation of the career transition experience of immigrant skilled workers with a focus on their experiences with career compromise and the coping strategies that they used. The grounded theory approach of qualitative analysis method was used to analyze 20 interview transcripts with participants who had received their education/training and had at least 1 year of work experience prior to immigrating to Canada. The interviews revealed that the career transition journeys of immigrant skilled workers were thwarted with acculturation and career-seeking barriers, which made their career transition experiences quite compromising. The findings support the notion of positive compromise whereby the participants utilized their human agency and open-mindedness to deal with their career compromise. An immigrant vocational theory and an immigrant career compromise theory are proposed. Practical implications and future research directions are discussed. career compromise immigrant skilled workers career transition Canada career immigrant professionals immigrants career development Guidance and Counseling 0519
4	„Ich bin eigentlich aufgeschlossen, aber …“: Zur Rekonstruktion von Praktiken manifester Exklusion und Wegen zur Inklusion bei der beruflichen Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in der ambulanten Pflege. Eine qualitative Studie im ostsächsischen Raum. Ritter, Monique 10 May 2019 (has links) Der vorliegende Konferenzbeitrag wurde in Form eines Posters auf der Vorkonferenz für Nachwuchswissenschaftler_innen auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziale Arbeit in Stuttgart vom 25.04.-26.04.2019 präsentiert. Inhaltlich beschäftigt sich der Konferenzbeitrag der Autorin mit dem gegenwärtigen Arbeitsstand ihres Forschungsvorhabens zu Praktiken der Exklusion und Wegen zur Inklusion bei der beruflichen Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in der ambulanten Pflege in Ostsachsen. Das Poster präsentiert den Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung, Forschungsinteresse und Forschungsfragen, Methodologie und erste Ergebnisse. / This conference paper was presented as a poster at the pre-conference for young scientists at the annual meeting of the German Society for Social Work 'Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziale Arbeit (DGSA)' in Stuttgart on 25. - 26.04.2019. It deals with the current state of the author´s research on practices of exclusion and ways of inclusion in professional cooperation with people with a migrant background in outpatient care in eastern Saxony. The poster presents the starting point of the study, research interest and research questions, methodology and initial results. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/300 ddc:300
5	Skilled Worker Immigrants’ Pre-Migration Occupation Re-Entry Experiences in Canada Avni, Anoosha E. Unknown Date No description available. Immigrants Immigration Career Canada Occupational success Career success Resilience Jobs Immigration policy Immigrant professionals Language Ethno-cultural community avoidance Pre-Migration Career Confidence Effect Career compromises Compromises Personal compromises Family compromises Acculturation Anomie Temporary career challenges Acculturation Self-advocacy Self-presentation Workplace communication Re-credentialing Counsellor competency Diversity training Communication skills training Loss Health Reframing Citizenship and Immigration Canada Foreign credentials Equality Internships Career transitions Career change
6	Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada Wang, Lurong 13 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy. situated learning and literacy practice multimodal uses of language and literacy social domains and discursive discourses language and literacy in the workplace discourse analysis consequences of literacy literacy, positioning, power relations social reproduction and categorization language and literacy in the job market reading and writing literacy and orality literacy artifacts home, school, job market, workplace gatekeeping process, social selection 0516 0282 0275 0727 0535 0340 0747 0628 0326 0745
7	Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada Wang, Lurong 13 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy. situated learning and literacy practice multimodal uses of language and literacy social domains and discursive discourses language and literacy in the workplace discourse analysis consequences of literacy literacy, positioning, power relations social reproduction and categorization language and literacy in the job market reading and writing literacy and orality literacy artifacts home, school, job market, workplace gatekeeping process, social selection 0516 0282 0275 0727 0535 0340 0747 0628 0326 0745

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