Intercultural competencies for culturally diverse work teams

Gender in Management

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 845-875

  Lloyd, Shannon ^a   Härtel, Charmine ^b  

^a CWCC ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competences; Cross cultural management; Employees; Equal opportunities; Job satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649284474     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941011089125     Document Type: Article

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