Table of Contents

1. The culture of smoking: A case study of tobacco control (Lamont Lindstrom)
2. The anti-opium movement in Singapore: A study of a cross cultural civil society (Kay Gillis)
3. Service across cultures: A case of the emerging role of communications technology in rotary international (Ronald K. Goodenow)
4. The intercultural experience of a Chinese academic (Ming Li)
5. Hit the ground running: enhancing international students ' ' cross-cultural adjustment (Dori Lyn Fujimori, Blair M T Odo, Larry E. Smith)
6. ' 'Your time is up! ' ' A case of cultural differences in communication cues and perception of time (Hayley Stone, Christopher Stone)
7. Managing educational interactions: A case study of bilingual supervision meetings (Beatrice Szczepek Reed)
8. West meets East; The case of the western-trained Chinese teacher (Hong Pu)
9. Managing the learning of new arrival children in mainstream schooling (Stephen McKinney, Julie McAdam, Alan Britton, Hazel Crichton, Evelyn Arizpe)
10. Playing the way to shared understanding (Elyssebeth Leigh)
11. Space to learn (Andrew Harrison)

About the Author

Elizabeth Christopher is an academic freelance, most recently for Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. Previously she was an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is a cross cultural specialist with academic interests in international management, managing cultural diversity, communication across cultures; and online teaching and learning. A former research fellow of the East-West Center, Honolulu, Elizabeth is also a reviewer for book and journal proposals, and a Chartered Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI). Her awards include the Macquarie University (Sydney) LEAD 2010 award for research on the management of cultural differences in learning and teaching, and the Chartered Institute of Management (UK) 2014 Management Book of the Year Award. Her most recent publications include Communication across Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2012)

Reviews

"Book explores and describes various dilemmas facing the managers and employees of organisations that operate across national and cultural boundaries. ... authorial bag of academics, practitioners, and cross-cultural specialists, while unusual, may prove to be the book's strength. ... editor puts the cases descriptive information only after a longish explanation of the cases' key issues and problems." (William C. Frederick, wiiliamcfrederick.com, January, 2016)