Highlights....
This Culture-at-Work website is designed to help you work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Enjoy exploring the site. We hope you find the information here thought-provoking and useful.
We suggest some links below. Or you can head directly for the complete Table of Contents to see what else interests you.
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.
 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.
 Walter Cronkite narrates this 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.
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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.
 Podcast! Listen online to the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution's Michael McIlWrath podcast conversations with Jenny Beer/ One is about community mediation and the Mediator's Handbook. The second podcast is about Cross-cultural issues in mediation.
 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
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.
Bio for Jennifer Beer.
Interested in a job, a career, or a life-change? Q & A: Working in Cross-cultural, Mediation, Conflict Resolution, or Peacemaking fields.
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