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Papers by Rosita Albert

Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Feb 1, 1969

The views of United Fund board members toward goal setting and goal achievement in their organiza... more The views of United Fund board members toward goal setting and goal achievement in their organization are examined. Italf of the respondents are from Funds with repeated failures during four years, the other half from Funds with successful records during that time. Within each of the Funds approximately half of the respondents are central members of their boards and half are peripheral members. The data are from mailed questionnaires. Contrasting responses by members in successful and unsuccessful Funds suggest that success prepares the ground for future success, and failure for~ future failure. Central board members, compared to peripheral members, are more deeply involved in the processes of goal setting and in the consequences of their organizations' performance.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1985

A BSTRA CT: This articlepresents evidence for the need for intercuhuraleducation in multicultural... more A BSTRA CT: This articlepresents evidence for the need for intercuhuraleducation in multicultural societies. Pupils who are culturally different from the majority need it to learn to function effectively in their own culture as well as in the majority culture. Since an important objective of education is to prepare individuals to function effectively in their environment, all children in multicultural societies could profit from exposure to effective intercultural education. Our research with American teachers and their Latin American or Hispanic pupils suggests that teachers also need to learn about the patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors of culturally different pupils. Objections to intercultural education are listed and refuted Advantages and disadvantages of three new approaches to intercultural education are discussed. Special attention is given to the attributional approach, an informational approach which is particularly well suited for use in educational settings. Research bearing on the effectiveness of this approach is presented This article focuses on the need for intercultural education in multicultural societies. In the first section, we begin by presenting evidence for the notion that individuals from a given cultural group develop behavior patterns and subjective cultures (Triandis, 1972) that are functional for their particular environment. We then indicate that when, due to such factors as immigration, colonization, etc., such individuals are forced to function in a different cultural environment, they are likely to experience stress, alienation, and other negative consequences.

The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, 2017

Psychological Foundations of Attitudes, 1968

International and Cultural Psychology, 2011

Ethnic conflict and racial conflict are phrases often taken to describe the same phenomenon. Howe... more Ethnic conflict and racial conflict are phrases often taken to describe the same phenomenon. However, when the usage of these terms in books over time is examined, a different picture emerges. Figure 1.1, taken from the Google search of words in books between 1800 and 2000, shows that neither phrase was in common use before 1900 when “racial conflict” began to appear. The other phrase did not make a significant appearance before 1960. “Racial conflict” peaked about 1970 and then declined.

International and Cultural Psychology, 2011

Page 1. 587 D. Landis and RD Albert (eds.), Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectiv... more Page 1. 587 D. Landis and RD Albert (eds.), Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives, International and Cultural Psychology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0448-4_22, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 22 ...

Teaching a psychology of people: Resources for gender and sociocultural awareness., 1988

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Handbook of Intercultural Training, 1983

Cases of individuals hiding their ethnicity in the face of external events are far from new. A nu... more Cases of individuals hiding their ethnicity in the face of external events are far from new. A number of individuals have discovered, often unexpectedly, that they had Jewish background that their family had kept hidden. At an international conference on Prejudice, Discrimination and Conflict in Israel in 1991, a Latina from New Mexico who was Catholic and whose family had been in the Southwest for over 400 years, suddenly realized that her old aunt who used to light candles on Friday evening was not crazy, as family members had assumed--the aunt was simply performing a traditional Jewish ritual. Here was a person who suddenly discovered that she had an ethnic background that she knew nothing about, because the family, facing likely death during the Inquisition, had attempted to hide it. She, like many others in the Southwest of the US, are descendants from Jews who had fled from Spain during the Inquisition and settled in the New World. Many of these Jews, known as 'conversos&...

Management Communication Quarterly, 1992

The article proposes a new field I am calling polycultural organizational communication. This fie... more The article proposes a new field I am calling polycultural organizational communication. This field is defined as encompassing theorizing and research involving organizations in both international and domestic settings in which cultural differences operate (multicultural settings). Polycultural organizational communication encompasses both cross-cultural (comparative) and intercultural theories and research. The article delineates (a) the need for the field brought about by increasing diversity; (b) the potential contributions of the new field to the study of communication, including the bringing together of organizational and intercultural communication; (c) the contribution of this area to practice in actual organizational settings; and (d) the theoretical and practical issues that need to be addressed to develop theory and research in this new area.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1986

This article describes factors which have hampered the development of effective cross-cultural or... more This article describes factors which have hampered the development of effective cross-cultural orientation programs and discusses nine fundamental issues which orientation efforts ought to address: the role of expectation in coping with stressful situations, the selectivity of ...

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1993

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Communication Education, 1998

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Handbook of intercultural training, 1996

International and Cultural Psychology, 2012

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Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Feb 1, 1969

The views of United Fund board members toward goal setting and goal achievement in their organiza... more The views of United Fund board members toward goal setting and goal achievement in their organization are examined. Italf of the respondents are from Funds with repeated failures during four years, the other half from Funds with successful records during that time. Within each of the Funds approximately half of the respondents are central members of their boards and half are peripheral members. The data are from mailed questionnaires. Contrasting responses by members in successful and unsuccessful Funds suggest that success prepares the ground for future success, and failure for~ future failure. Central board members, compared to peripheral members, are more deeply involved in the processes of goal setting and in the consequences of their organizations' performance.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1985

A BSTRA CT: This articlepresents evidence for the need for intercuhuraleducation in multicultural... more A BSTRA CT: This articlepresents evidence for the need for intercuhuraleducation in multicultural societies. Pupils who are culturally different from the majority need it to learn to function effectively in their own culture as well as in the majority culture. Since an important objective of education is to prepare individuals to function effectively in their environment, all children in multicultural societies could profit from exposure to effective intercultural education. Our research with American teachers and their Latin American or Hispanic pupils suggests that teachers also need to learn about the patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors of culturally different pupils. Objections to intercultural education are listed and refuted Advantages and disadvantages of three new approaches to intercultural education are discussed. Special attention is given to the attributional approach, an informational approach which is particularly well suited for use in educational settings. Research bearing on the effectiveness of this approach is presented This article focuses on the need for intercultural education in multicultural societies. In the first section, we begin by presenting evidence for the notion that individuals from a given cultural group develop behavior patterns and subjective cultures (Triandis, 1972) that are functional for their particular environment. We then indicate that when, due to such factors as immigration, colonization, etc., such individuals are forced to function in a different cultural environment, they are likely to experience stress, alienation, and other negative consequences.

The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, 2017

Psychological Foundations of Attitudes, 1968

International and Cultural Psychology, 2011

Ethnic conflict and racial conflict are phrases often taken to describe the same phenomenon. Howe... more Ethnic conflict and racial conflict are phrases often taken to describe the same phenomenon. However, when the usage of these terms in books over time is examined, a different picture emerges. Figure 1.1, taken from the Google search of words in books between 1800 and 2000, shows that neither phrase was in common use before 1900 when “racial conflict” began to appear. The other phrase did not make a significant appearance before 1960. “Racial conflict” peaked about 1970 and then declined.

International and Cultural Psychology, 2011

Page 1. 587 D. Landis and RD Albert (eds.), Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectiv... more Page 1. 587 D. Landis and RD Albert (eds.), Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives, International and Cultural Psychology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0448-4_22, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 22 ...

Teaching a psychology of people: Resources for gender and sociocultural awareness., 1988

ABSTRACT

Handbook of Intercultural Training, 1983

Cases of individuals hiding their ethnicity in the face of external events are far from new. A nu... more Cases of individuals hiding their ethnicity in the face of external events are far from new. A number of individuals have discovered, often unexpectedly, that they had Jewish background that their family had kept hidden. At an international conference on Prejudice, Discrimination and Conflict in Israel in 1991, a Latina from New Mexico who was Catholic and whose family had been in the Southwest for over 400 years, suddenly realized that her old aunt who used to light candles on Friday evening was not crazy, as family members had assumed--the aunt was simply performing a traditional Jewish ritual. Here was a person who suddenly discovered that she had an ethnic background that she knew nothing about, because the family, facing likely death during the Inquisition, had attempted to hide it. She, like many others in the Southwest of the US, are descendants from Jews who had fled from Spain during the Inquisition and settled in the New World. Many of these Jews, known as 'conversos&...

Management Communication Quarterly, 1992

The article proposes a new field I am calling polycultural organizational communication. This fie... more The article proposes a new field I am calling polycultural organizational communication. This field is defined as encompassing theorizing and research involving organizations in both international and domestic settings in which cultural differences operate (multicultural settings). Polycultural organizational communication encompasses both cross-cultural (comparative) and intercultural theories and research. The article delineates (a) the need for the field brought about by increasing diversity; (b) the potential contributions of the new field to the study of communication, including the bringing together of organizational and intercultural communication; (c) the contribution of this area to practice in actual organizational settings; and (d) the theoretical and practical issues that need to be addressed to develop theory and research in this new area.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1986

This article describes factors which have hampered the development of effective cross-cultural or... more This article describes factors which have hampered the development of effective cross-cultural orientation programs and discusses nine fundamental issues which orientation efforts ought to address: the role of expectation in coping with stressful situations, the selectivity of ...

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1993

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Communication Education, 1998

ABSTRACT

Handbook of intercultural training, 1996

International and Cultural Psychology, 2012

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