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Human resources often provide the highest value in a company and make it likely to be successful and sustainable. Cross-cultural psychology enhances intercultural understanding, facilitates mobility and fosters intercultural teamwork by examining behaviour related to business requirements. Since 2013, a Kenyan-German team has been cooperating on research regarding sustainable behaviour and functioning. To understand Kenyan behaviour, it might be useful to think in ways supported by th...Human resources often provide the highest value in a company and make it likely to be successful and sustainable. Cross-cultural psychology enhances intercultural understanding, facilitates mobility and fosters intercultural teamwork by examining behaviour related to business requirements. Since 2013, a Kenyan-German team has been cooperating on research regarding sustainable behaviour and functioning. To understand Kenyan behaviour, it might be useful to think in ways supported by the Ubuntu-concept. Kenyans show specific behaviour and attitudes differing from what is exhibited by German individuals. For example, there may be more group-orientation (collectivism) in Kenyans’ ways of thinking. Two samples are tested in Germany and Kenya concurrently. Applied quantitative and qualitative measures aim at efficacy beliefs, social axioms, social skills, learning motivation and work-related personality features. Intercultural differences between Germany and Kenya are identified and evaluated with regard to their functional effects on coping and development in the occupational context. The tentative results and preliminary works using the Five-Factor Model and the South African Personality Inventory showed that the instruments and statements used cannot be easily transferred from one culture to another. This is the reason why there is need for an emic-etic approach, which would be useful in a transcultural context.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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DFG Fachgebiet:
Psychologie

DDC Sachgruppe:
Psychologie