{"id":4496,"date":"2020-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:18:54","slug":"hidden-cultures-cultures-in-management-empathetic-leadership-absolutely-intercultural-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Cultures +++  Cultures in Management +++ Empathetic Leadership +++ Absolutely Intercultural 251 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_251.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_81492-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG_81492-684x1024.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"374\">Hello and w<span class=\"tadv-color\" style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">elcome to show 251 of Absolutely Intercultur<span class=\"tadv-background-color\" style=\"background-color: #fff;\">al, <strong>Cultures in Management<\/strong>, co<\/span>ming to<\/span> you from the beautiful Rheinland in Germany. Today&#8217;s show is about the culture of <a href=\"https:\/\/fitsmallbusiness.com\/best-management-styles\/\">management<\/a>, where we listen to three managers and how they handle some of the more hidden cultures in their workplace to be effective leaders. Culture can be more than just national or geographical identity, it can be about direct\/indirect, female\/male, formal\/informal, old\/young or it can unite people who have the same profession but who all grew up in the same country. You will have certainly encountered some of these yourself throughout life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>absolutely identical<\/strong><br>In our first part, Dr. Beate Bl\u00fcggel from Germany talks about her role as a manager in an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adult_education#Benefits\">adult education<\/a> institution and how the job-specific culture of adult educators is often stronger than national cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>absolutely millennial<\/strong><br>In our second part, Akshay from India explains how his intercultural experience studying  and working in Germany prepared him for the challenges Indian managers face while dealing with teams of different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careerplanner.com\/Career-Articles\/Generations.cfm\">age-groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>absolutely professional<\/strong><br>In our third part, we hear from Aytaj, an exchange student from Azerbaijan, about the difficulty balancing formal and informal cultures when she found herself at the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/hierarchy\">hierarchy<\/a> as leader of a catering team  during an Event about &#8220;Managing Cultural Diversity&#8221; and needed to turn her friends into employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we often think of culture in terms of nationalities, we experience many other kinds every day. Here, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/322302\">empathy<\/a> is important for managers because it allows them to understand their employees through different cultural lenses, like older generations or fellow educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special thanks to our editors for this show, Kalvin Mitchell, Kofi Prempeh and Chris Leedman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you all who listened to the show. If you enjoyed it, please like us on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbsolutelyIntercultural\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. By the way, did you know that we are also on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\">Apple podcasts<\/a>? You can subscribe to us there for free and give us a rating and a comment. We would appreciate that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our next show is coming to you from <a href=\"https:\/\/annefox.eu\/\">Anne Fox<\/a> in Denmark on 03 July, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until then \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The host of this show is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Editor: Kalvin Mitchell<br>Assistant Editors: Christopher Leedman and Kofi Prempeh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_251.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple podcasts-Abo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to show 251 of Absolutely Intercultural, Cultures in Management, coming to you from the beautiful Rheinland in Germany. 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