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Nuttall, Joce; Grieshaber, Susan; Lim, Sirene; Eunju, Yun; Jooeun, Oh; Hyojin, Ahn; Sum, Chee Wah; Yang, Weipeng; Soojung, Kim – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This paper explores the relationship between workforce competence, migration, and quality improvement in the Asia-Pacific through analysis of Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy texts from three East Asia Summit countries. Content (word level) analysis of salient policy texts was undertaken to address two questions: How are culture and…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Work Environment, Labor Force, Cultural Pluralism
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Gress, Douglas R. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
The number of expatriate faculty members in Korea has been falling since 2013, intimating that Korean universities face a problem with international faculty satisfaction. This research develops a model for expatriate faculty overall workplace satisfaction at Korean universities by integrating acculturation and enculturation theory, social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Foreign Workers, Place of Residence
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Gu, Michelle Mingyue; Guo, Xiaoyan; Lin, Yun – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This qualitative study investigates how skilled migrants from South Korea shuttle between linguistic and cultural resources for socialisation and career development. Drawing on the theoretical notions of cultural capital and scalar politics, this study found they strategically re-configured and transformed inter-scalar relations at the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Career Development, Migration, Cultural Pluralism
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Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Applied Linguistics, 2020
In the highly multicultural workplace of today's multinational corporations (MNCs), translating across different cultures becomes a crucial issue. But what precisely counts as culture in the global workplace of the MNC? What does it exactly mean to be able to translate across cultures under the regimes of evaluation adopted by MNCs? In this…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Work Environment, Corporations, International Trade
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Wilkins, Stephen; Neri, Selina – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges and issues associated with managing expatriate academics at international branch campuses, and to analyze the strategies that have been, or could be, implemented to overcome these challenges and issues. The data used in this study came from an online survey questionnaire that was completed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Workers, Multicampus Colleges, College Administration
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Peck, Catherine; Yates, Lynda – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
The 'intercultural turn' in foreign language education has brought to the fore the need to foster intercultural competences. Yet in contexts where virtually all intercultural communication is mediated by English as a foreign language (hereafter EFL), proficiency in that language determines to a large extent access to intercultural experiences,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kim, Dongbin; Yoo, Sung-Sang; Sohn, Heekwon; Sonneveldt, Erin L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we examine 15 academics who crossed national borders in response to the strong pull of recruiting efforts from a Korean university. These foreign professors at the case university are on tenure-stream and teach regular academic courses in various academic departments and colleges. By discussing their motivations for global mobility,…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, College Faculty, Case Studies, Foreign Nationals
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Lim, Doo Hun; Morris, Michael Lane; McMillan, Heather S. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2011
Recently, the stress of work-family conflict has been a critical workplace issue for Asian countries, especially within those cultures experiencing rapid economic development. Our research purpose is to translate and establish construct validity of a Korean-language version of the Multi-Dimensional Work-Family Conflict (WFC) scale used in the U.S.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Conflict, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals)