Developing A Global Mindset: Designing business-based global learning experiences to develop sensitivity and responsiveness to new cultural environments. Using these learning experiences with multicultural teams of managers to develop a global mindset, and to increase their capacity for intercultural perspective-taking when working in rapidly globalising organisations.
Establishing Global Platforms for Critical Functions: The development of common values, principles and understanding for strategically critical functions within global organisations.
Global Diversity Strategy: Evaluation of current managerial practice and the development of global diversity strategies and initiatives that spread the organisation's core values globally, while maintaining respect for local cultural norms and practices.
Bridging Global and Local Culture Gaps: Assessment of critical culture gaps between global policies and local practices, and their impact upon organisational effectiveness. Using mixed teams of global and local members to develop practices that bridge these global & local culture gaps.
| Optimising Off-Shoring: Investigating the factors which influence the execution of business functions that have been moved to lower cost off-shore locations in different cultures. Introducing and assessing changes in the relationship between the on-shore client and the off-shore contractor to improve the functioning of the global relationship.
Global Ethics Codes: Investigating and analysing specific cases where different cultural interpretations of ethical behaviour have influenced work policies, practices and contract execution. Developing and cultural testing of Global Ethics Codes, to ensure their applicability in multiple cultural environments.
International Assignment Processes: Designing and developing integrated processes for managing expatriate assignments, from sourcing and recruitment to repatriation or re-assignment within global companies.
Motivating A Global Workforce: Developing processes to motivate candidates for taking on global projects and international assignments. Establishing screening processes to ensure candidates have the competences that match the global assignment opportunities, and are capable of working effectively in globally dispersed teams.
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