Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which Portuguese companies have incorporated equalityand diversity-related issues into their management discourse, and examine the prevalent rhetoric on these matters. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive content analysis of the web sites of the 500 largest companies plus the 20 best companies to work for in Portugal, in 20...

This paper aims at an initial analysis and explanation of lean through the lens of the discipline of rhetoric. First, the ancient origin, central ideas, subsequent history and current interpretations of rhetoric are outlined. Then, the overall meeting points of rhetoric and lean are discussed. At the outset, it is contended that certain arguments that can be used as a justification in rhetoric ...

BACKGROUND Business educators have advocated that in order to build faculty's intercultural capability, it is vital to provide them with professional development in using intercultural training resources and with "community of practice" support in adapting such resources for enhancing their students' intercultural learning. This approach has been adopted in an Australian action research project...

Intercultural learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge and skills that support the ability of learners to both understand culture and interact with people from cultures different from their own. It is developmental in the sense that learners advance through stages of progressively more sophisticated stages of understanding. This understanding includes that of different cultures as well a...

Introduction. This paper constitutes merely an initial exploration into the field of rhetoric, a field that is quite new to me. Its stimulus was the realization, while working with Aquinas, of how rhetorical some of his arguments were despite his apparent rejection of rhetoric. 1 A little reading indicated the perilous state of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. Yet the practice ...

Developing L2 learners' intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking is essential for second language learning. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of photovoice on intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking. To this end, a sample of 48 intermediate EFL learners was recruited from an English language institute in Isfahan, Iran and placed into a photovoice group (PG) and...

the knowledge of rhetoric has ever been in common, among all the knowledge of humankind during the history, throughout which, all nations have paid attention to it. a part from being in common, the knowledge of rhetoric, in the countries, in which ‘islam’ have been the official religion has gloried very remarkably. relying upon the testimony of ups and downs of the history ,the  iranian moslem ...

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is critical for today’s business leader who wants to interact competently across borders. However, developing and evaluating such competence is a challenge. One concept that provides a holistic conceptualization of intercultural competence is the notion of “mindfulness” or the ability to use reflection as a co...

Designing intercultural communication and cooperation systems involves at least two central issues, i.e., concepts for modeling communication and the legitimacy of communication norms and conventions established through modeling and designing. This paper discusses the concept of genre in regard to modeling communication and reflects on how discourse-ethical principles may inform the design of i...

This paper reports an early result of an evaluation experiment of emotionally expressive characters for intercultural communication. The experiment was conducted as a series of discussions on a multilingual BBS with expressive characters between China and Japan. The result shows some characters and facial expressions used in the experiment were interpreted completely differently and used for di...