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Articles by Sanda Ionescu

• 10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Moving Abroad

• How to Raise Multilingual Children

• Expat Life on the Border between France and Switzerland/ Geneva

• 5 Key Steps to Successful Joint Ventures Abroad

• Business As Usual in Greece

• Top Tips for Re-Entering Corporate Life after a Maternity Break

                  Top Tips For Re-Entering Corporate Life - Part Two     
                  Last But Best Tips For Re-Entering Corporate Life

• First 100 Days

Other resources

1) Children as global citizens:

Education without borders – how to enhance global thinking at school level

Oxfam resources for teachers

http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/

More ideas and resources for teachers

2) Expatriate failure:

http://direction-rh.blogspot.com/2008/05/role-of-hr-manager-in-reducing.html

Selection of expatriates for assignments:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXD/is_2_11/ai_n25104148/?tag=rel.res1

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5440/is_200709/ai_n21295139/

Factors that influence expatriate failure

http://www.benefitscanada.com/conferences/cbs2005/PDFs/McFarland.pdf

Challenges of being an expatriate

http://www.thetrailingspouse.com/docs/TheBottomLine.pdf

The cost of expat failure

3) The Classics:

http://edwardthall.com/books.html

Beyond Culture

Simplified version of Trompenaar

http://changingminds.org/explanations/culture/trompenaars_four_cultures.htm 

Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and criticism of his work:

http://www.geert-hofstede.com/dimBSGH.pdf

Edgar Schein on organizational learning as ‘brainwashing’:

http://www.solonline.org/res/wp/10010.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctcvistaqueen/3543282128/

Slide on the three levels of organisational culture

Charles Handy – gods of cultures

http://www.provenmodels.com/8

Deal & Kennedy

http://changingminds.org/explanations/culture/deal_kennedy_culture.htm 

4) Scholarly articles about cross-cultural communication:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5383/is_200701/ai_n21282979/pg_9/?tag=content;col1

Effect of intercultural sensitivity on cross-cultural service encounters (Hawaii, London and Florida)

Code-switching

http://people.brandeis.edu/~molinsky/documents/Molinsky%20Cross-Cultural%20Code-Switching.pdf

5) Assessment tools:

http://www.incaproject.org/en_downloads/24_INCA_THE_THEORY_eng_final.pdf 

Intercultural Development Inventory

http://www.idiinventory.com/

Role of self-knowledge in successful expatriation

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5321/is_200501/ai_n21364623/?tag=rbxcra.2.a.33 

Levels model for assessing culture (organisational/community/arts)

http://www.creativexchange.org/chd/levelsmodel

Organizational Culture Inventory testing

http://www.trainersdirect.com/resources/articles/ChangeManagement/OrgCultureInventory.htm

6) Useful links for those moving abroad:

Publishers/books on living abroad

http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/resources/publishers.shtml

Third Culture Kids

http://www.tckid.com/help.html