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Organisational and Professional Cultures – Theoretical Background
- What are the specific features and dimensions of organisational and professional cultures?
- What are the similarities and differences between national and organisational cultures?
- How do these interact/interface with national cultures?
Diplomatic Professional Culture
- What are the specific features of the diplomatic professional culture?
- Do these differ from one country to another, or are there common features?
Case Studies: International Organisations, NGOs, and other Institutions
Papers in this category should discuss the organisational culture of a selected organisation, focussing on:
- specific features of the organisational culture;
- specific linguistic features – terminology, grammar, language choice – that form part of the organisational culture;
- what diplomats should know in order to interact successfully with this
organisation.
Another approach would be to analyse the inter-professional communication which took place during one of the interdisciplinary UN conferences of the 1990s: Rio – environment, Cairo – population, Beijing – gender rights; or a similar event.
Translation between Professional and Organisational Cultures
- When, in diplomatic practice, is “translation” between different professional and organisational cultures necessary?
- How can diplomats prepare for this kind of intercultural communication?
Domestic Communication
- What are the factors involved in this relatively new area of diplomatic communication?
- Which new groups do diplomats need to
communicate with?
- What are the specific organisational cultures of these groups?
New Approaches to Diplomatic Training
- What skills do diplomats need to interact with different organisational and professional cultures?
- How can training for diplomats teach them these required new skills?
- Multistakeholder approach to diplomatic training; opening diplomatic training institutions to other professions which are involved in diplomatic activities (NGOs, journalists, business, etc.): can this approach help diplomats to better prepare for a career involving a variety of forms of intercultural communication?
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