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Managing multi-cultural teams in conflict environments

Managing multi-cultural teams in conflict environments. Chasing the invisible. This is so obvious. So WHY can’t we see it?. What is culture?.

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Managing multi-cultural teams in conflict environments

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  1. Managing multi-cultural teams in conflict environments

  2. Chasing the invisible This is so obvious... So WHY can’t we see it?

  3. What is culture? • ‘Culture, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.’ • Edward Burnett Tylor ( 1871)

  4. How important is cultural competence for the 21st century peacekeepers?

  5. Military maps • RED • BLUE

  6. Attitude to “uniform” Choose the word which best describes the attitude to police in your own country : • respect • security • justice • force • fear • corruption

  7. Are Hofstede’s cultural dimensions still valid?

  8. Social networks : society structure • social welfare Denmark • written rules Germany • tribal hierarchy Sierra Leone • religious beliefs ? • vertical hierarchy ?

  9. Individual versus group ДАНИЯ

  10. High/Low context society • All the information in words/all the information in codes • Emotions hidden/emotional outbursts • ? ??

  11. PARIS - NEW YORK

  12. Communication

  13. Power distance: International contingent, Helmand UK, US, Denmark and Estonia : Different lines of communication • Different meanings behind various strategic concepts

  14. OSCE Special Monitoring mission to Ukraine • Established on 21 March 2014 • 300 Monitors deployed in the first two weeks • 57 countries sent their representatives • Monitors operating in ten cities across Ukraine

  15. G8 Science Ministers’ meetingFinal document • France Holistic approach, let’s involve all the emotions and have the document beautifully crafted • Germany We have to make sure that all the rules and procedures are listed and thought through • Italy We need to think how the changes of scientists careers’ affect their families • Russia We disagree with a number of points and will come back to you with our position later.

  16. anna@3cn.uk.com

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