Czech citizens in Zambia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.icabr.com/fullpapers/icabr2014.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.icabr.com/fullpapers/icabr2014.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech citizens in Zambia
Original language description
The purpose of the current study is to describe the process of adaptation of Czech citizens to the cardinally different cultural, societal and environmental conditions of African continent. In the theoretical part we focus on the issues of immigrants andexpatriates in the globally inter-connected world, and the process of psychological adaptation of an individual to a foreign culture. In May 2013 we conducted semi-structured interviews with 6 Czech expatriates currently living in Zambia (5 women and 1man). Most of the interviewees live in Zambian society for at least 2 years, and work in the developmental sector. The interviews were designed on the basis of four dimensions of CCAI (Cross-cultural adaptability inventory) by C. Kelley and J. Meyers. The main areas of adaptation process we focused on were: the cognitions and feelings of expatriates after arrival to the host culture, the effect of time spend in the host culture on feelings and cognitions, stresses and problems in everyda
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings from IX. International Conference on Applied Business Research ICABR 2014
ISBN
978-80-7509-223-6
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
76-88
Publisher name
Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Talca
Event date
Oct 6, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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