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Multilingualism and Interculturality in international or interregional projects and work environments.
MICHELIN, Anais Marie Christelle
The master thesis aimed to find out structural and individual strategies of managing multilingualism and interculturality within the BOKU - International Relations working team. In the first part of this work I set up a theoretical research framework focused on the following key topics : intercultural management, intercultural competence, intercultural teams, communication and challenges. The last part of the theoretical part describes the existing models about the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences working environment I referred to. Empirical data were collected using data triangulation through document analysis and qualitative semi-structured interviews to demonstrate the structural and individual strategies of managing multilingualism and interculturality of six BOKU-IR team members. They were then analyzed by sequences and transcribed with the software FOLKER according to the convention GAT2. The results show an overview of the intercultural management and the strategies used to deal with multilingualism and interculturality within the BOKU- International Relational working environment.
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Multilingualism and interculturality in international or interregional projects and work environments
MIRAMON, Christelle
Mastering communication is the key to successful project management. While stressing the importance of communication within any working team has become a commonplace, the latter seems often helpless when it comes to implementing this principle on-site. In addition, there an ongoing requirement for pre-existing communication management methods to be continuously adapted to ever-changing work environments. First of all, in today's globalized society, the frequencies of intercultural interactions have dramatically increased and international teams have become mainstream within the workplaces. Therefore, interculturalism is nowadays a core issue in internal communication as well as a challenge for the coworkers' cooperation and productivity. Furthermore, in the digital age, information and communication technologies (ICT) are introducing new opportunity for extending the scope of cooperation beyond borders so that interregional projects rely increasingly often on remote teams. However, the virtual space transforms the interaction modes between the individuals and, unlike in a physical space, tailored strategies regarding the communication is necessary to ensure group cohesion. The following research focuses on a case study of the communication management within an international remote team. This case offers a point of departure to analyze cross-effects of both interculturality and virtuality on the communicative effectiveness between the working partners as well as their overall impacts on the project progress. Besides, the given team proves to have little knowledge in basic communication management, hence this case study aims to evaluate the different aspects of the project management process that could be affected by the lack of an appropriate communication strategy. Then, the results of the data analysis will be confronted with the scientific literature in an attempt to find some problem-solving communication management practices that would especially applies to intercultural and virtual working teams.
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The Topos of Being on the Way in selected prosaic works of Peter Henisch
KÜGEL KARKUŠOVÁ, Petra
This study in literary sciences conducts an analysis of selected prosaic works published by the Austrian author Peter Henisch. The study evokes the affirmation that the author makes use of a literary strategy in his writings which consists of four universal topics. These universal topics may be depicted as Grenzenüberschreiten (crossing borders), Generationenkonflikt (conflicts between generations), Gesellschaftskritik (criticizing society) and Interkulturalität (interculturality). The said topics are summarized by the commonplace {--} respectively topos {--} `Being on the way{\crq}, in German language expressed as Unterwegssein. Each of them plays a dominant role within the novels `Die kleine Figur meines Vaters{\crq} (1975), `Schwarzer Peter{\crq} (2000) and `Die schwangere Madonna{\crq} (2005) which are subject to text-based interpretation. The analysis is carried out in two steps. First, after having precisely defined the four universal topics, citations from the texts prove evidence of certain aspects of said topics. Second, the method of parallel comparison (Parallelstellenmethode) examines these aspects to show consistence between citations throughout the selected novels. The outcome of comparison confirms that several aspects are equally used in all of the three novels and that some aspects show up in one or two novels only, confirming the existence of universal topics as well. Thus, the chosen methodology approves the persistent use of all four topics. Finally, this prove of evidence verifies the affirmation of a literary strategy.
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The influence of interculturality in communication of employees in organization
Pejková, Nikola ; Kocianová, Renata (advisor) ; Eger, Ludvík (referee)
The work deals with the cultures and its impact on communication of the organization. It focuses on the influence of cultural background and personality related to the specifics of communication between workers and managers communicate with employees. Attention is focused on the differences in the behavior of workers from different cultural environment, the importance of specific knowledge of other cultures to overcome differences and optimal cooperation in intercultural environments. The issue of interculturality and its impact on communication between workers in an organization is viewed primarily in terms of personnel management and the work also deals with the different approaches to the management of the group of countries.
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Intercultural aspects of non-verbal communication
ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Lucie
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to define issues of non-verbal communication. It is focused on intercultural aspects that are present in non-verbal communication and have influence on it. The thesis is divided into four chapters. At first the term communication is explained and then there are explained terms such as interculturality and intercultural communication. Third chapter is focused on non-verbal communication. All the constituents of this type of communication are described and the examples from particular cultures are added. After that there is a comparative part that deals with forms of non-verbal communication in particular cultures. There is a comparison especially of European, Asian, American and Arabic cultures. This comparison is mainly focused on the main elements of non-verbal communication. In this chapter there are also explained some differences that are essential to know for understanding of non-verbal communication in different cultures and for peaceful interaction.
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The influence of interculturality in communication of employees in organization
Pejková, Nikola ; Kocianová, Renata (advisor) ; Eger, Ludvík (referee)
The work deals with the cultures and its impact on communication of the organization. It focuses on the influence of cultural background and personality related to the specifics of communication between workers and managers communicate with employees. Attention is focused on the differences in the behavior of workers from different cultural environment, the importance of specific knowledge of other cultures to overcome differences and optimal cooperation in intercultural environments. The issue of interculturality and its impact on communication between workers in an organization is viewed primarily in terms of personnel management and the work also deals with the different approaches to the management of the group of countries.
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Physiognomically we have still been passers - by. Travelling as an intercultural experience in the work of Christoph Ransmayr.
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Lenka
The topic of this diploma thesis is ?Physiognomically we have still been passers - by. Travelling as an intercultural experience in the work of Christoph Ransmayr?. This thesis is divided into seven basic parts. The first four chapters describe theoretical background of the thesis which is the Postmodernism, the Philosophy of the Postmodernism, the Interculturality and the Theory of Essays. The next chapter reports about the poetics of the narration and the aim of the last two parts is to analyze the books "Geständnisse eines Touristen" and "Der Weg nach Surabaya". The ambition of this diploma thesis is to research the relationship of Christoph Ransmayr to travelling and search for the influences of the travelling poetics in his two concrete books.
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