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This Culture-at-Work website is designed to help you negotiate difficult issues, especially in cross-cultural situations. Enjoy exploring the site. We hope you find the information here thought-provoking and useful.

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This section looks at the basics of language, messages, signs, codes. One topic that seems to intrigue (and worry) negotiators is Non-verbal Communication in Negotiations.


Explore our popular Essential, Informed, & Intriguing Sites about Japanese Culture links page.

Lessons from Hiroshima 60 Years Later

We interviewed survivors, scholars, and activists for this Peace Talks Radio Program, which aired across the country.

60years_th (27K)Walter Cronkite narrates the powerful hour-long documentary on nuclear disarmament and proliferation, starting with the experiences on-the-ground of Japanese survivors, and perspectives from American and Japanese veterans. It includes an interview with this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, and some of Cronkite's first-hand experiences of covering the Hiroshima aftermath.


Our Mediator's Handbook was Amazon.com's best seller in the mediation / arbitration / negotiation category for 2 years in a row.

Take a look at mediation through an anthropologist's spectacles: Underlying Values and Assumptions in Mediation



diversity as How to define the undefinable?
A set of pages on Concepts of Culture ducks the question by instead looking at the many metaphors for culture one finds in the business world.



This section of the website has notes on various topics from the Negotiation & Dispute Resolution course we teach at U. Penn's Wharton School.

Here's a page that takes a first look at the difficult questions of Ethics in Negotiation.


We offer mediation, facilitation, and conflict coaching services. Call us to find out about custom-designed workshops and presentations on mediation, negotiation skills, and cross-cultural communication.

Interested in a job, a career, or a life-change? Q & A: Working in Cross-cultural, Mediation, Conflict Resolution, or Peacemaking fields.




Culture at WORK is edited and produced by business anthropologist and mediator Jennifer Beer, Ph.D., principal of JB Intercultural Consulting. Her independent consulting practice is located close to center city Philadelphia.


Whether you're looking for training, mediation services, advice in handling a cross-cultural conflict, or a facilitator for important meetings ... We welcome your inquiries, your comments, and your business.

JB Intercultural Consulting


59 Berkley Avenue
Lansdowne, PA 19050-1324 USA
Telephone: 610-623-1926
jbeer@culture-at-work.com





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