Publications - Books
The Mindful International Manager
- Competencies for Working Effectively across Cultures
Jeremy Comfort and Peter Franklin
The Mindful International Manager is a book which not only explains cultural and individual differences in management values and behaviour. It also helps you to handle these differences by describing the skills and competences you need to work effectively across cultures.
It will be useful to the business traveller, the expatriate manager, or anybody working in an international organisation alongside foreign colleagues, in a joint venture or in an international virtual team.
What makes this book different from other books about working internationally? The Mindful International Manager:
- places managers and the management situations they have to handle in their daily work at the centre
- quotes the experiences and insights of practising international managers
- not only describes differences and difficulties but also describes what skills and competences are needed to handle them effectively
- does not suggest that the challenges facing a manager working internationally are exclusively caused by differences in national or ethnic culture
- deals with the influence of organisational culture
- emphasises the importance of the personality and preferences of the individual manager
- avoids harmful stereotypes
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Key Terms in People Management
Steve Flinders
The new edition of Key Terms in Human Resources has been revised and expanded to include new chapters on Employment Law and Intercultural Communication:
- For anyone in international people management including all HR staff and employee representatives as well as students of business, professional English trainers, translators and interpreters.
- Thematically organised glossaries provide definitions of more than 1200 terms relating to the work of human resources professionals and people managers worldwide
- Useful as reference, self study and classroom material
- Revised self-test exercises plus discussion questions and case studies for each chapter
- Each headword is accompanied by a definition in clear simple English plus a phonetic transcription, typical word associations and examples of use
- Other chapters deal with basic terms; policy and planning; reward; training, development and appraisal; health and safety; and employee relations
- Appendices include comprehensive list of HR job titles; language for appraisals; and business verb plus noun combinations
- Complete alphabetical index and answer key at the back of the book.
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Technical English: Vocabulary and Grammar
With Summertown Publishing
Nick Brieger and Alison Pohl
Technical English: Grammar and Vocabulary is the first writing collaboration between York Associates and Summertown Publishing. Written for pre-service and in-service learners of Technical English, the book has:
- 30 units covering key technical vocabulary
- 20 units reviewing core grammar in technical contexts
- a glossary with 1500 key technical terms
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Intercultural Resource Pack
With Cambridge University Press
Derek Utley
The Intercultural Resource Pack is a book of photocopiable resources for trainers working in the fields of intercultural communication, communication skills, and professional and business English training. The 50 activities all aim to develop intercultural awareness and competence, and are divided into ten sections including Defining Culture, Types of Culture, Profiling Cultures (national, corporate, team and individual), and Culture and Communication. The activities can be used by both native and non-native-speaking adult trainees.
The book also contains:
- an introduction to the user
- trainer's notes and further reading for all activities, and
- a concise introduction to the whole subject of intercultural communication and essential reading list by James R. Chamberlain of the Fachhochschule Rhein-Sieg, Germany.
The Culture Pack is the outcome of several years of materials development for the company's courses in intercultural and international communication.
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Communicating in Business English
With Compass Publishing
Bob Dignen
Based on the successful Down to Business Minimax series, this book provides vocabulary and expression for all the major professional communication skills plus practice exercises for self study:
- Six chapters deal with telephoning, presentations, meetings, negotiation, socialising and writing emails, letters and reports
- Language presentation on the left-hand page - including cross-cultural tips and golden rules for effective communication; practice exercises on the right plus answer key at the back of the book
- Key vocabulary lists for each lesson and dialogues illustrating vocabulary usage in context
- The accompanying CD contains the first exercise (dialogue) on every exercise page
- A teacher's booklet, available on request, provides ideas for classroom application for every lesson.
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Better Business Writing
Alan Ram
For anyone (learner or native speaker) who needs to be able to write simple, reader-friendly business English. Practical, practice-oriented sections on all the key elements of successful business writing.
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