Academic Research in the areas of
Organizational and Cross-Cultural Psychology
Research Objectives:
The three research programs I’m working currently on may reflect well my present and future research interests, which main objectives are:
  • Having a better understanding on the relationship and interaction between performance and culture, how to create high performance working environment by utilizing the distinctiveness of (national / ethnic) cultures.
  • Development of tools (inventory and technology, learning and training modules / methods / theories) to help people working in international environment to be more effective and having more impact.
  • Bringing in more and more Asian Indigenous perspectives and approaches into the current psychological theories and research methods.
Current Research Programs:
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Intercultural Competence and Sensitivity (ICS)
  • International Employability in Chinese-German Collaboration
  • Study on Chinese-Indonesian Intercultural Sensitivity
  • Tour Guide Communication Competence
  • Culture Encounter in Tourism
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Learning and Knowledge Sharing in Organization
  • Best-practice Survey on Corporate Learning & Development
  • Accelerate blended Action Learning
  • Cross-cultural Learning Behavior
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Strategic Decision Making and Organizational Change
  • Top Management Team in International Joint-Venture
  • Complex Problem Solving in Chinese Workgroups
  • Comparative Study on Chinese, German and Indonesian Team Effectiveness
Previous Research:

International Post-Merger Integration, Intercultural Competence in Multinational Team, Intercultural Synergy in Professional Team, Intercultural Awareness Training, Cooperative Problem Solving in Group

Academic Research


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CCL Project - 3
The team 2006 - 2007


Team - 2
The CPS team 2004-2006

Team - 3
The ICS team 2004-2006

Team - 4
The first postgraduate students
working with me in China