Oczekiwania pracodawców a kształcenie kompetencji międzykulturowych przyszłych ekonomistów i menedżerów

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-0
Author(s):  
Anna J. Piwowarczyk

The article aims to insight intercultural competence training of economic universities students.  The main thesis of the paper is to emphasize training of these competencies at universities what influences higher education effectiveness and suits educational offer to labor market requirements.  This constitutes the main source of competitive advantage of a  given university graduates in a  multicultural business environment thus their employment agencies.  The essence of competence of intercultural communication and tools to develop it during a formal education process at university as well as free time. Keywords: intercultural communication competence, higher education, competence management, employers’ expectations.

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Amia Luthfia

In this global era, communication, interaction and intercultural encounters happen every second. Technology expands the ability of people throughout the world to connect to each other for vacation or for business purpose. Intercultural communication skills will be critical necessity. The ability to work in multicultural workforce and interact with people from other cultures, often in other languages, is inherent to the success of a multinational business. Effective global enterprise communication skills are the backbone that supports the transaction of business around the world. This paper highlights the importance of intercultural awareness and the need for intercultural communication competence training for all local and multinational companies. Therefore, intercultural cooperation and synergy become an important aspect in this era. Companies that have intercultural competence will be able to succeed and sustain success in global business. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1177
Author(s):  
Deniz Keba Ekinci

Intercultural communication is an interdisciplinary science that studies issues such as the interaction between people of different cultures, the emergence and preservation of cultural diversity, and the perception of foreigners. With globalization; the denaturation of the borders between the countries, the emergence of cultural diversity, an increase in intercultural communication and interaction are observed. Insuch an environment; multiculturalism, intercultural communication process, and intercultural communication competence is gaining importance. Multiculturalism refers to the existence of different cultures in a pluralistic society. Intercultural communication illustrates the communication and interaction between different cultures. Intercultural competence is with the acceptance of differences and the desireto livetogether. In this context, as a result of partnerships and cultural agreements between countries, various international student programs like Erasmus program take place between higher education institutions within the lifelonglearning. The implementations in higher education institutions where such education programs are carried out are the basis of this research. Cultural problems that the students who come to study here at Kocaeli University Faculty of Communication through different programs face in the educational process are discussed in the context of intercultural communication. In the study, qualitative research method was used. For students open-ended questions was applied in the form of an interview consisting of. The population of the study is comprised of foreign students studying at Kocaeli University Faculty of Communication by way of different programs. The data obtained by choosing sampling criteria, one of the purposive sampling methods, are assessed by classifying them according to certain characteristics. As a result, even though they lived some problems of international students in the education process, multicultural education in higher education institutions by enabling the formation of cultural environment they are to create awareness have been observed. In addition, this educational environments, with the acquisitions of intercultural communication and competence, bias by getting rid of the molds, are expected to develop awareness of the coexistence of different cultures. ÖzetKültürlerarası iletişim, farklı kültürlere mensup insanlar arasında iletişim, kültürel farklılıkların ortaya çıkması ve korunması, yabancının algılanması gibi konuları inceleyen disiplinler arası bir bilim dalıdır. Küreselleşme ile birlikte; ülkeler arasındaki sınırların yapaylaştığı, kültürel farklılıkların ortaya çıktığı, kültürlerarası iletişim ve etkileşimin arttığı görülmektedir. Böyle bir ortamda; çokkültürlülük, kültürlerarası iletişim süreci ve kültürlerarası iletişim yeterliliği olguları önem kazanmaktadır. Çokkültürlülük, çoğulcu toplumlarda farklı kültürlerin varlığını ifade etmektedir. Kültürlerarası iletişim, farklı kültürler arasındaki iletişim ve etkileşimi göstermektedir. Kültürlerarası yeterlilik ise, farklılıkların kabulü ve birlikte yaşama isteği ile gerçekleşmektedir. Bu bağlamda; ülkeler arasındaki birliktelikler ve kültürel anlaşmalar sonucunda, Yüksek Öğretim Kurumlar’ı arasında, çeşitli uluslararası öğrenci programları gerçekleşmektedir. Bu eğitim programlarının görüldüğü, Yüksek Öğretim Kurumları’ndaki uygulamaları çalışmanın temelini oluşturmaktadır. Farklı programlarla Kocaeli Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde eğitim görmek amacıyla gelen yabancı öğrencilerin eğitim sürecinde karşılaştıkları kültürel problemler, kültürlerarası iletişim çerçevesinde ele alınmıştır. Çalışmada, nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Öğrencilere yönelik açık uçlu sorulardan oluşan bir görüşme formu uygulanmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini, farklı programlarla gelen Kocaeli Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde eğitim gören yabancı öğrenciler oluşturmaktadır. Amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden ölçüt örnekleme seçilerek elde edilen veriler, belirli özelliklere göre sınıflandırılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuç olarak uluslararası öğrencilerin eğitim sürecinde bazı sorunlar yaşamalarına rağmen, gittikleri Yüksek Öğretim Kurumları’nda çokkültürlü eğitim ortamlarının oluşumuna olanak sağlayarak, kültürel farkındalık oluşturdukları görülmektedir. Ayrıca bu eğitim ortamları sayesinde kültürlerarası iletişim ve yeterlilik kazanımlarıyla, önyargı kalıplarından kurtularak, farklı kültürlerle birlikte yaşama bilincinin gelişeceği düşünülmektedir.


Author(s):  
Eglė Virgailaitė-Mečkauskaitė ◽  
Velta Lubkina

<p>Since integration and globalization processes are accelerating in the world, the demand to internationalize education and studies increases as well as parameters of the activities of higher education institutions change. International competitive ability of European higher education area, international mobility and high level of university graduates’ employment as well as successful integration into international labour market are the main aims of Bologna process. Bologna declaration, various documents of conventions (European convention of higher education institutions, Salamanca) and communiqué documents (of Prague; Berlin; Bergen) related to the declaration devoted to the creation of common European Higher Education Area raise the necessity of higher education policy emphasizing internationalization, the conception of lifelong learning. The documents mentioned above emphasize the development of European dimensions and content internationalization in study programmes, training of a flexible, mobile, constantly improving and public active specialist who will integrate into the competitive labour market, mobility of the academic community and international cooperation. The development of intercultural competence becomes a more topical subject of the research taking globalization processes into consideration. That is why it is important to understand the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of Master’s degree (MA) students’ intercultural competence through their experience gained in the study process. The aim of the research presented in this article is to discuss the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of MA students’ intercultural competence. A scientific problem question raised in the research is how MA students telling their life story reveal the experience gained in the process of higher education internationalization which influenced the development of their intercultural competence.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Vesna Bedeković ◽  
Marija Šimić

Meetings of different cultures in today's global multicultural society are occurring almost every moment in the most diverse forms of communication. Intercultural communication due to an increased interdependence between people of different cultures, religions, languages and world view becomes a reality of everyday life, where encounters culture imply the necessity of quality mutual correlation based on the idea of interculturalism. Given that childhood is considered an extremely important period of human life, 18 institutions of early and preschool upbringing and education are the places of the first formal outbound socialization and the earliest institutional transfer of socially accepted norms and values, as well as the places where the forms of intercultural relations are applied in society. This paper gives an overview of the results of empirical research aimed at determining the level of basic knowledge in the field of interculturalism and examining the desirable intercultural competence of the educators, and the effectiveness of intercultural action in the early and preschool upbringing and education process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-213
Author(s):  
Paul J. Moore ◽  
Adriana Díaz

Abstract Languages curricula are an important, yet underutilized, site for students’ development of intercultural knowledge, awareness and skills in higher education, though there has been little related empirical research. Given the key role teachers play in student learning, in the context of two Australian universities, this study explores language teaching academics’ perspectives on language, culture and intercultural communication, and how these are reflected in their teaching approaches. As part of a larger needs analysis project into the teaching of languages and intercultural communication, this article reports on semi-structured interviews with ten academic staff engaged in teaching and/or researching languages, and one study abroad coordinator with a language teaching background. Interpretations of the key concepts varied, as did participants’ reported approaches to teaching, from critical to instrumental. Teachers’ interpretations and approaches were influenced by their teaching and learning histories, and while there were a range of approaches to the incorporation of the (inter)cultural in the teaching of languages, this was approached more critically than reported in previous studies. Contextual features which may limit such integration of language and culture are discussed, as is the contribution of languages teachers to students’ development of intercultural competence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
ANA PAULINA PEÑA POLLASTRI

Abstract Effective communication is crucial in a globalized communication technology-driven world. Translation and communication disciplines seem to meet in the field of Intercultural Communication, the study of communication between individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Translation, an interlinguistic and intercultural enterprise, generates quality translation products which portray not only a suitable linguistic format but also a cross- cultural component carefully thought out by expert translators. Fully aware of their responsibility in developing translator-to- be intercultural communication competence, higher education institutions did make their contributions for their graduates to become expert translators producing quality translations. Two such proposals are analysed to discern whether a traditional general approach effectively includes relevant intercultural components identified in a more recent study. At the outset, Lee-Jahnke’s 2001 comprehensive translation quality assessment model is explored to find out the extent and manner in which intercultural matters are taken in, thus making the evaluation tool suitable for academic and field work assessment. Then, PICT’s 2012 specific intercultural competence framework, developed as part of European Union- funded “Promoting Intercultural Competence in Translators” project, is reviewed to identify specific intercultural competence fields and show their degree of correspondence with relevant sections in the general assessment model and its adequacy for judging translation quality.


Author(s):  
Yurii Mielkov

There are certain obstacles to the development of the research capacity of Ukrainian universities, which can be classified as belonging to one of the two groups: «external» and «internal». If the former include more obvious things like insufficient funding for national science and higher education, as well as the imbalance of teaching and research activities of the academic staff, the latter relate to the values, interests and motivations of the researchers. It is argued that a possible way to overcome the first type of obstacles is to rethink the role of the university teacher, who from a translator of knowledge becomes a mediator helping students to acquire the ability for life-long self-education and the constant creation of own knowledge. The competition to traditional universities presented by non-formal education emphasizes the benefits of the individual approach and personal communication between teachers and students and the special value of the personal knowledge as a result of own research. The article argues that in the absence of internal motivation for scientific research and a tendency to recognize the principles of scientific ethos, the attempt to «force» creativity leads only to the profanation of scientific activity, in particular to mass violations of academic integrity by students. Really effective research can be based only on the moral imperative of each human person as an autonomous subject of values and responsibility, and the most important factor in the development of university science is the democratization of higher education, which returns to the humanistic ideal of the Enlightenment that considers each person as capable of creative and independent thinking. Such democratization contributes to the implementation of lifelong learning and effective activities of university graduates in a volatile and complex world, and also corresponds to the ideas of the open science concept as one of the most important ways for increasing the research capacity of Ukrainian universities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan ◽  
Fauziah Khairani Lubis ◽  
Widya Andayani ◽  
Winda Setia Sari

The lack of intercultural communication skills will likely cause disharmony, misunderstanding, and even conflict in communication. To be successful in communication with native speakers depends on language skills, customs, and cultural knowledge. In the age of global communication, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching goals should be reoriented to cultivate intercultural communication competence (ICC). EFL learners should have this intercultural competence and be sensitive in order to avoid disharmony, misunderstandings, and even conflicts in communication. The main objective of this preliminary study is to reveal the levels of intercultural communicative competence among EFL students at a state university in Indonesia. A survey questionnaire was performed employing a quantitative analysis in this study. Eighty-nine students filled out the ICC questionnaire, which consisted of 20 questions. Findings indicated that most of the students had a low ICC level because they are lack of experience and knowledge in interacting and socializing with people from various cultural backgrounds. In terms of gender differences, the results showed that male students had higher levels of ICC than that female students. This research implied that intercultural topics should be included in the university’s curriculum.


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