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  • Intercultural interactions in multinational subsidiaries

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    • M. Rozkwitalska
    • M. Chmielecki
    • S. Przytula
    • L. Sulkowski
    • B. Basińska

    - Baltic Journal of Management - Year 2017

    Purpose - Our aim is to show how individuals perceive the quality of intercultural interactions at work in multinational subsidiaries, and to address the question of what actually prevails in their accounts, i.e. ‘the dark side’ or ‘the bright side’. Design/methodology/approach - We report the findings from five subsidiaries located in Poland and interviews with 68 employees of these companies. Findings - The ‘bright side’ dominated...

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  • Individual Resources and Intercultural Interactions

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    - Year 2017

    The work environment in multinational corporations (MNCs) is specific and demanding including intercultural interactions with co-workers and clients and using a foreign language. Some individual resources can help in dealing with these circumstances. Individual resources refer to personal dispositions, competencies and prior experiences. With regard to previous studies, a caravan of personal resources, namely Psychological Capital...

  • Intercultural interactions at multinational corporations' workplace: Grounded theory.

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    - Journal of Positive Management - Year 2016

    environments is a new challenge for employees and managers. The aim of the paper is to analyze the social interactions in multicultural environments of multinational corporations (MNCs) as well as to propose a model of intercultural social interactions in MNCs’ specifi c context. Design/methodology/approach: The grounded theory approach was applied to create a model of intercultural interactions in MNCs. The data was obtained during...

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  • Thriving in multicultural workplace

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    - Year 2017

    Thriving at work is defined as the psychological state that links both a sense of vitality and learning. The vitality component of thriving may be seen as positive energy, while learning enhances a sense of competence and efficacy. Thriving sheds new light on individual psychological functioning and the experience of growth in the work context. Thriving at work promotes growth through playing an active role in interaction with...

  • Trust triggers and barriers in intercultural teams

    Intercultural teams are more and more popular nowadays — they constitute a serious challenge in terms of effective cooperation and trust building, however. The article presents the potential problems that can affect intercultural cooperation and stresses the power of trust in cultural diversity conditions. The ten-factor model of intercultural team trust is presented. The main aim was to answer the questions: what are the differences...

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  • Developing competences for cooperation in international teams - tools and methods

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    The article presents the training methods that can be used to develop intercultural competences which are extremely important while working in intercultural teams. The mentioned methods like: case-studies, collaborating, role-play simulations, team working, video presentations and others are presented on the basis of authors’ experiences while teaching the international groups of students at Faculty of Management and Economics...

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  • THRIVING AND JOB SATISFACTION IN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS OF MNCS

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    - Year 2016

    Purpose of the article The aim of the paper is to analyze the relationship between thriving and job satisfaction in multicultural environments of multinational corporations (MNCs). Methodology/methods The quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on the sample of 128 individuals from subsidiaries of various MNCs located in Poland involved in intercultural interactions. Scientific aim The aim of this study was to examine...

  • Intercultural Challenges in Virtual Teams

    : Virtual teams are usually geographically dispersed and consist of members from different countries and cultures. They influences internal communication processes and can cause personal conflicts, misunderstandings or lack of trust. Intercultural diversity is also significant for goal setting and team effectiveness. The aim of this article is to check if virtual team members appreciate the cultural diversity or rather suffer from lack...

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  • Psychological capital and happiness at work: The mediating role of employee thriving in multinational corporations

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    - CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY - Year 2022

    Working in multicultural work environments of multinational corporations (MNCs) creates challenges whose expected impact on happiness is equivocal. In the following paper, we examine the relationship between psychological capital and happiness at work in the specific MNCs’ context. We assume that thriving (eudemonic well-being) at work fosters individuals’ development and enhances their happiness composed of both the affective...

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  • Paradygmat jakościowy w analizie interakcji międzykulturowych – interpretacja na bazie wybranych teorii psychologicznych

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    - Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie - Year 2016

    Intercultural interactions in a multicultural work environment are a peculiar type of social interactions. The results of prior research on the effects of interactions in such environment are inconclusive. The majority of the previous studies have emphasized problems, applied a quantitative methodology and interpreted the results with regard to social identity and categorization theory, information-processing theory and intergroup contact...

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  • Barriers of cross-cultural interactions according to the research findings

    The aims of this article are to label major cultural barriers and to present results of empirical findings referring to barriers to intercultural interactions in foreign subsidiaries of transnational corporations (TNCs). The qualitative research was conducted in TNCs'foreign subsidiaries operating in Poland in winter 2009/2010. The article describes how respondents perceive the problems in cooperation with foreigners, their sources,...

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  • Barriers of Cross-cultural Interactions According to the Research Findings

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    • M. Rozkwitalska

    - Journal of Intercultural Management - Year 2010

    The aim of this article is to label major cultural barriers and to present results of empiricalfindings referring to barriers to intercultural interactions in foreign subsidiaries oftransnational corporations (TNCs). The qualitative research was conducted in TNCs'foreign subsidiaries operating in Poland in the winter of 2009/2010. The articledescribes how the respondents perceived the problems in cooperation with foreigners,defines...

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  • POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL ENHANCES THRIVING IN THE MULTICULTURAL WORK ENVIRONMENT OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

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    - Year 2016

    The aim of the paper is to examine positive psychological capital (PsyCap) as well as individual factors in the relationship with thriving in the multicultural work environment of multinational corporations (MNCs). We conducted a quantitative study on the sample of 127 individuals from subsidiaries of various MNCs located in Poland and involved in intercultural interactions. The results of cross-sectional study show that employees...

  • Thriving in multicultural work settings

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    - Year 2015

    Owing to globalization and the global mobility of workforce, working in multicultural environments has become a daily reality for an increasing number of manpower. Such an environment does introduce unique challenges to individuals, enabling some of them to thrive. The aim of the paper, therefore, is to explore the antecedents of thriving and its components in multicultural work settings of multinational corporations (MNCs). The...

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  • Engineering and Management of Space Systems (EMSS) - an international joint Master's double-degree program

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    Dynamic development of the space sector of European, and especially of Polish and German economies results in a necessity for suitable Higher Education Institution graduates. The increasing digitization, distribution and networking of technical systems leads to the necessity of a degree programme teaching “the systems view” and “interdisciplinarity” methods and skills. Furthermore, it is necessary to consider the entire life cycle...

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