Mid-September I attended the SIETAR Europa* congress in Tallinn, Estonia. This congress is a meeting place of many intercultural trainers and consultants. The congress is very practice oriented with many lectures and workshops about (aspects of) intercultural training, consulting and…
One of the aims of this blog is to bridge theory and practice by writing about interesting academic publications. I will start with an article I have been re-reading recently because I need it for new research I am setting…
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Pascal Mercier, Night Train to…
The past two months have seen a little less activity on this blog than I was planning on. The reason: I am soon going to be an expat myself! I have found a job as postdoctoral researcher at the University…
Last week I attended the Global Conference on International Human Resource Management at Penn State University, USA. The keynote of professor Chris Brewster focused, amongst other topics, on the importance of context in Human Resource Management. While a universalist paradigm…