Today’s global economy is characterized by cultural diversity. Interacting with diverse others in an increasingly complex world has made it imperative to explore and understand how cultural factors affect nations, organizations, groups, teams and individuals.
Today managers need to develop an understanding of the behavioral patterns and values that characterize international and intercultural management. To meet such a need the Department of CCL offers a theoretical and practical foundation on which to build an inter-human competence, i.e. a competence that cultivates emotional-, social-, intellectual-, and communicative intelligence tailored specifically for the study of management in a global context.
Building an inter-human competence draws on a variety of disciplines in our department: communication, languages, national and business cultures (English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian), linguistics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, semiotics, negotiation, philosophy, ethics, literature, organizational psychology, information, media and public relations.
Vision Statement
The goal of the Department of CCL is to gain national and international recognition as a leading resource for the development of humanist and social science perspectives between academia and professional life in cross-cultural business and management.
Mission Statement
The Department of CCL seeks to enrich and extend the core disciplines of the Norwegian School of Management BI as the:
- primary resource of humanist and procedural perspectives on leadership and organization
- primary resource of intercultural communication, intercultural management and internationalization
- primary resource of the identification of culture and its implications for business, management andorganization
- primary resource of international negotiation
- primary resource of values, meanings and business behavior
- enriching resource of international business
- enriching resource of socialization and identity
- enriching resource of group and team management and pedagogy
