Guest Lecture – Prof. Dr. Alexander Thomas
Guest Lecture Current Research and Discussion on Culture Standard
by Prof. Dr. Alexander Thomas of Regensburg University.
Prof. Thomas is world-known recognized expert in the areas of cross-cultural psychology and intercultural management. He has published more than 50 books and 200 articles, mainly for the topic related to culture and psychology. He is the one who introduced the construct and theory of “culture standard” which is a standard theory among the cross-cultural psychologist in German speaking countries, incl. Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2004 he got the price as “German Psychologist of the Year” which is regarded is one of the highest award for psychologist in Germany.
This guest lecture will also include some reports on the experiences and results from the project International Employability. It will takes place in Zhejiang University, Xixi Campus, Psychology Building on Thursday, June 10 from 09:30 to 12:00.
Journey to the West – 10 days in Germany
On May 2nd, Prof. Tjitra, Prof. Ma, Prof. Jin and 10 students departured from Hangzhou, arrived early in the morning in Frankfurt, Germany – where two of the German students from our partner university already waiting for us. The train trip from Frankfurt to Bonn, was really enjoyable – although after 15 hrs flight we were very tired, but the beautiful landscape on the famous Rhein river was just amazing.
During the 10 days in Germany, we visited a number international companies, incl. Giesecke & Devrient, BMW etc. as well a a number cultural program, e.g. City-tour in Munich, German bier-garten on the Starnberg lake, and the famous castle new schwanschtein. Also we got the chance to discuss about intercultural issues with guest speakers from some leading consulting companies such as Kienbaum, Deloitte etc.
Meanwhile we had our own team-project work with our German friends. The intercultural and team learning experiences in this team-project was really matchless. We were divided into four groups, working together in four different topics: ‘intercultural assessment tools’, ‘best practices in international recruitment’, ‘cross-cultural study on impression management’ and ‘Video-based intercultural learning’.
If you are curious about our results – sure you are -, we can show you later. During this intensive twenty days project, we learn a lot about German culture and working style through face to face communication, cooperation and experiencing which impress us a lot. Some of our group members already shared their most impressive things on the web, if you are interested, welcome to visit our forum.
