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Research and Development at LBS
Applied Science at Lauder Business School has one specific focus: The analysis of relationships between education/training and the development within organisations operating in an intercultural environment.
The aim is to provide organisations with tailored solutions for problems resulting from cultural diversity and different value systems.
Between February and July 2008 Phase 1 of the exploratory research in the field of intercultural working environment has been conducted.
The objective was to identify, if and how affected individuals perceive and understand cultural influences in daily operations while doing his/her job.
The main focus was problem identification, or in other words to explore what is commonly understood as “cultural factor” and how cultural differences are defined and understood in a very pragmatic sense by concerned persons. The following specific questions had to be answered:
Do non-Austrian employees of embassies experience problems in dealing with individual parties and/or other Austrian institutions and are these problems caused by cultural differences between the parties involved?
What do the respondents commonly identify as “cultural difference”?