The appropriateness of cross-cultural training practice in the UK: a psychological perspective
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- Title
- The appropriateness of cross-cultural training practice in the UK: a psychological perspective
- Creator
- Margherita Cavallaro
- Abstract
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The aim of this work is to assess the appropriateness of the approach that trainers in the UK have towards cross-cultural training and to identify the best practice. A psychological perspective is also taken into account, considering its lack of consideration in the current literature, in spite of the psychological nature of culture shock.
The approach to the research is interpretivist and inductive, and the primary data gathered are qualitative rather than quantitative. The primary data are gathered through structured interviews to 8 professional trainers working for different companies providing cross-cultural training programmes and a charity association preparing volunteers and freelance trainers. The interpretivist approach seems to be much more appropriate, given that what the interviewees say has to be interpreted by the interviewer. Furthermore, since the aim of the research is not to verify a specific model but to identify the best practice and assess the appropriateness of the current practice, the inductive approach will is followed. This work is valuable to all the companies acting on an international scale and to the professional trainers willing to improve their cross-cultural training practice. It provides an insight from a trainer point of view, it suggests the best practice where the literature is not able to find agreement and provides a psychological perspective on the process, lacking in the present literature. The results show a mixed level of appropriateness of the current cross-cultural practice. The review of the psychology literature underlines the importance of considering particulars of each individual's life that could become major stressors. Consequently, an approach more similar to coaching than to classic structured training seems to be more appropriate as the best practice. - Subject
- Human resources
- Psychology
- Extent
- viii, 110 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Regent's University London
- degree
- MA Human Resource Management
- Language
- English
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Type
- Report
- Rights Holder
- Margherita Cavallaro and Regent's University London
- Item sets
- Theses or Dissertation