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The Five Stages of Culture Shock: Critical Incidents around the World » Read Now
by Paul Pedersen. 286 pgs.

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The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact...
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The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact between students and host nationals in the context of culture shock experiences. Using the critical incident methodology, Pedersen analyzes students' responses to nearly 300 specific incidents which resulted in insights that apply to the students' own development, as well as the sociocultural context of the host countries. This use of critical incidents shows one way to evaluate and assess the subjective experiences of the informal curriculum. More broadly, the analysis sheds light on the concept of culture shock as a psychological construct.
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Communicating and Adapting across Cultures: Living and Working in the Global Village ("Culture Shock: The Adjustment Curve" begins on p. 15) » Read Now
by Riall W. Nolan. 205 pgs.

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Today, more Americans than ever are going abroad to visit, work, or study. Increasingly, the ability to communicate and work in cross-cultural situations is seen as an important determinant of success in business, government, education, and the social services. Being successful depends less on what...
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Today, more Americans than ever are going abroad to visit, work, or study. Increasingly, the ability to communicate and work in cross-cultural situations is seen as an important determinant of success in business, government, education, and the social services. Being successful depends less on what you know of a particular culture than it does on what you know about managing new cultural situations. This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to communicating, learning, and adapting within any new cultural environment. The skills learned from this book are essential to success and can be put to use in any new culture, anywhere in the world.
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The Overseas Americans (Chap. 3 "Culture Shock") » Read Now
by Harlan Cleveland, Gerard J. Mangone, John Clarke Adams. 320 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Leave Home 8 3. Culture Shock 26 4. The American...another tour of duty abroad. 3 Culture Shock 1 Whatever his background...American abroad is known as "culture shock."...
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Communicating across Cultures ("Managing the Culture Shock Process" begins on p. 245) » Read Now
by Stella Ting-Toomey. 310 pgs.

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Crossing Cultures: Insights from Master Teachers (Chap. 13 "Cultural Transitions: A Biopsychosocial Model for Cultural Adaptation") » Read Now
by Nakiye Avdan Boyacigiller, Richard Alan Goodman, Margaret E. Phillips. 332 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Provides teachers and trainers with proven methods for developing coping strategies and problem solving skills in the cross-cultural arena.
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Developing Successful Expatriate Managers: A Framework for the Structural Design and Strategic Alignment of Cross-Cultural Training Programs, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now
by J. Kline Harrison. 19 pgs.

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...the goal of CCT is to minimize "culture shock" when on foreign deployment and...manager. They, too, are subject to "culture shock," and can influence a...
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Cross-Cultural Training Programs ("Culture Shock" begins on p. 45) » Read Now
by Darlene Eleanor York. 190 pgs.

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Drawing from a diverse literature that underscores America's growing racial hostility and violence, York defines and explores the claims of cross-cultural training as an aid to increasing personal satisfaction and professional productivity in culturally diverse work environments. York claims that...
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Drawing from a diverse literature that underscores America's growing racial hostility and violence, York defines and explores the claims of cross-cultural training as an aid to increasing personal satisfaction and professional productivity in culturally diverse work environments. York claims that soaring "failure rates" among cross-cultural workers, particularly teachers, business personnel, and missionaries, are the result of inadequate, poorly administered, or inappropriate cross-cultural training. Examining more than 500 studies of cross-cultural training programs in more than a dozen occupations, York compares training given to Peace Corps and diplomatic corps members, teachers, doctors, and others who work in culturally diverse environments. In an analysis of these programs, she determines whether differences in policies, goals, selection procedures, lengths of training time, age or race of trainees, training location, or other factors contribute to long-term effectiveness of the programs.
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Educators and Cultural Diversity: A Six-Stage Model of Cultural Versatility, in Education » Read Now
by Monte Salyer. 6 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...confided that they hadnt experienced culture shock until the masses of American students...differences dominate perception, culture shock may result in segregation...
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Intergroup Relations ("Culture Shock" begins on p. 130) » Read Now
by Walter G. Stephan, Cookie White Stephan. 228 pgs.

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...Intergroup Anxiety 128 Culture Shock 130 Intercultural Communication...among people from different cultures. Problems such as culture shock and ethnocentrism, as well as...
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International Assignments: An Integration of Strategy, Research, and Practice ("Culture Shock" begins on p. 44) » Read Now
by Linda K. Stroh, J. Stewart Black, Mark E. Mendenhall, Hal B. Gregersen. 281 pgs.

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Although firms have been sending employees on international assignments for decades, systematic understanding is sorely lacking. This volume looks at such critical aspects of the assignment process as the selection process, the training required, factors that affect adjustment, performance and...
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Although firms have been sending employees on international assignments for decades, systematic understanding is sorely lacking. This volume looks at such critical aspects of the assignment process as the selection process, the training required, factors that affect adjustment, performance and commitment, and how to retain and capitalize on the international experience once employees return home.This book is written for human resource managers and executives whose focus includes the global economy and the strategic role of people in achieving international competitiveness. It can be used as a textbook for courses in International Human Resource Management.
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Cultural Orientation and Psychological Well-Being in Chinese Americans, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now
by Yu-Wen Ying. 19 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...orientation to both the mainstream and ethnic cultures are accounted for, rather than assuming that the orientation to one culture (e.g., espousal) necessarily determines...
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Difficulties and Coping Strategies of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Immigrant Students, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Christine Yeh, Mayuko Inose. 14 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...stigmatizing. The concept of culture shock (Oberg, 1960) refers to feelings...they had employed in the past. Culture shock triggers strain and feelings of...Immigrant youth...