Professor Christoph Barmeyer

"Increasingly, due to internationalisation and migration, people are being confronted with cultural diversity and intercultural challenges. My research looks at the impacts of culture and cultures on organisations and people in work contexts. The topics are intercultural learning and skills development, the intercultural transfer of organisational practices, the creativity of bi-cultural people and the intercultural integration of migrants in organisations. One thing I am particularly interested in is how people with different cultural backgrounds can shape their intercultural relationships constructively. What can people learn from and through the fact of being culturally different, and how? How can they exploit those differences as strengths and combine them complementarily? In the foreground, this interdisciplinary research with my team from the chair and European colleagues looks at intercultural processes of learning, development and negotiation through interactions, and at how those processes work in society."