Cultural Competence for Public Managers

Preface

Cultural Competence for Public Managers gives busy professionals a guide to becoming leaders in developing cultural competence in their organizations. It provides a conceptual foundation and successful examples for developing cultural competence, including competencies for international collaborations.

In this increasingly globalized society in which we live, the need for a higher level of sophistication in working cross-culturally and internationally is demanded of local governments, state governments, tribal corporations, nonprofit organizations, and others, as well as at the federal levels of government. This book discusses positive and negative real-world examples from universities; local, state, and federal governments; health ...