The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

by David C. Thomas, Jeff Hoyt (Narrator)

Organizations need innovation, and there is a powerful source right under their noses. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst. Thomas cites extensive research and examples showing that multiculturals people who have deep experience in more than one culture-have developed skills and abilities that organizations can leverage in the service of innovation. This story makes a powerful business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity-the diversity within individuals! Thomas looks at how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish."

Genres: Audiobook, Nonfiction

4 pages, Audio CD

First published February 15, 2016

About the author

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David C Thomas (PhD University of South Carolina) is currently the Beedie Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

He is the author of ten books including the bestselling Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally, (2009, Berrett-Koehler Publishers). His book Cross-Cultural Management Essential Concepts (2008, Sage Publications) was the winner of the R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development book of the year award for 2008. In addition, he has recently edited (with Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson) The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research from Sage Publications. His research on cross-cultural interactions in organizational settings has appeared in numerous journals. He is currently the Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Business, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management.

His previous academic postings have included positions at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia, the Pennsylvania State University and The University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he was also Director of the Master of International Business Program.