Leadership and performance in multicultural business environments a qualitative study in German-Colombian teams

Multicultural leadership is a topic a great interest in nowadays globalized work environment. Colombia emerges as an attractive marketplace with appealing business opportunities, especially for German enterprises. After presenting Colombia’s current political, social and economic situation, the thesis elaborates the complex subject of cultural differences while focusing on the peculiarities of German and Colombian national cultures. The resulting implications for a team’s collaboration and leader effectiveness are theoretically supported with reference to the landmark studies of Hofstede and GLOBE. By utilizing semi-structured interview techniques, a qualitative research enriches the previous findings and gives an all-encompassing insight in German-Colombian teamwork. The investigation identifies distinctive behavioral patterns and relations, which imply challenges and factors of success for multicultural team leaders. Finally, a categorical analysis examines the influence of cultural traits on team performance and evaluates the effectiveness of the applied leadership style.

Towards the 3rd wave school leadership. 'Hacia el 3er paradigma del liderazgo de la escuela'.

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Bringing history to life : a pedagogical approach to cultural studies. 'Traer la historia a la vida : un acercamiento pedagógico a los estudios culturales'.

Se muestra un ejemplo práctico de un proyecto didáctico que presenta los hechos históricos con un estilo periodístico. Se busca de esta forma aumentar el interés por los hechos historicos entre los alumnos y facilitar su asimilación del conocimiento histórico.

How about a visual lecture? : viewers' interpretations of a visual-pedagogical installation challenging family photography. '¿Qué tal una clase visual? : las interpretaciones de los espectadores de una instalación visual-pedagógica que cuestiona la fotografía de familia'.

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Followers’ agreeableness and extraversion and their loyalty towards authentic leadership

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School leadership in a contradictory world

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Understanding mobile learning : devices, pedagogical implications and research lines

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Approaches for quality in pedagogical and design fundamentals in MOOCS

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Pedagogical education for university teachers in Finland

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Emergent leadership : is e-leadership importance in the quality of virtual education?

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Development paths of university teachers during a pedagogical development course

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On safety and security in education : pedagogical needs and fundamental rights of learners

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Students reflections on pedagogical translation in Spanish as a foreign language

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Artistic education an alternative formative pedagogical and didactic tool: folder, blog

The pedagogical and didactic dynamic system is focused on individual learning process and aims at the development of artistic knowledge, helping and guiding learners through different strategies or individual support, thus reinforcing the process. In consequence, this presentation looks for an alternative to the intercommunication student-teacher supported on the educational paradigm, through textual analyses of the daily diaries, developped by teacher and students, so as to discover successes or difficulties

The Pedagogical Congresses of Portuguese Secondary Teaching : the participation of female teachers (1927-1928)

This paper was written within the context of the research project “The development of teacher’ associative organizations and unionism (1889-1990)” funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology). Five important congresses about secondary education were organized in Portugal between 1927 and 1931. These congresses served to claim the rights of teachers and the consolidation of the class, as well as to promote the discussion of scientific and pedagogical problems. In these congresses, the presence of female teachers was residual. However, the few teachers who participated had a significant contribution to the definition of secondary education during the following decades. Among other issues, it contributed to the discussion of female education and to analyze the importance of Biology and Physical Education in high schools. This paper presents the analysis of the minutes of the 1927s and 1928s Congresses. This analysis allowed the assessment of the important role played by a group of teachers to define, at the end of the first third of the 20th century, the future guidelines of Portuguese secondary education. It also reported that these teachers were pioneers who opened the way for the increasing number of teachers in secondary education during the 20th century.