Akulturace expatriotů v českém prostředí: (vyšší manažeři versus "český lid")

Title:

Akulturace expatriotů v českém prostředí: (vyšší manažeři versus "český lid")
Acculturation of sojourners in Czechia: (executive managers versus “the Czech people”)

Creator:

Gärtner, Michal and Drbohlav, Dušan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:43abb27e-e0ee-41b2-ac69-a648985d4ae0
uuid:43abb27e-e0ee-41b2-ac69-a648985d4ae0

Subject:

expatriote executive managers, acculturation, longitudinal survey, qualitative approach, and Czechia

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Acculturation of expatriate executive managers was examined in the sample of 16 sojourners transferring managerial know-how to companies in Czechia, using a structured longitudinal interview survey including in depth personal interviews. The interviews were conducted six and eighteen months after the arrival of respondents in Czechia. The respondents were contacted as they became available during the period 2006 to 2010. The results indicate that acculturation of sojourners in Czechia proceeded, as expected according to the international literature, broadly in line with the Hofstede’s acculturation “U“ curve (Hofstede 1997). The qualitative analysis points to a number of problems, the sojourners had to deal with during their acculturation including: dependence on communication in English, while recognising potential advantages associated with the knowledge of Czech language, cultural distance - particularly the uncertainty arising from the inability to correctly predict Czech behaviour, lack of openness limiting the Czech ability to form a broader world view, lack of mutual respect between the Czech co-workers, a degree of Czech xenophobia and underestimation of certain predictors of successful acculturation such as social engagement with the Czech hosts. Research also points to a number of helpful coping strategies.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

385-406

Source:

Český lid | 2012 Volume:99 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

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