Theories and Methods

Notice: The methods below and their theoretical bases have the same names!

  1. Personal Leadership is a method by which one could control a situation and make the best possible actions through recognising and managing (cultural background of) thoughts, feelings, physical condition, talks, and actions. For that, we use a questionnaire.
  2. Influential Factors (underlying factors) explain the integration choices and strategies (thoughts), feelings, talks, and actions of people with immigrant background.
  3. Acculturation theory shows the possible integration choices of people with immigrant background (and the reception choices of the host society) that affect their feelings talks, and actions as clients, employees, employers, colleagues, bosses etc. There are four choices for each group.
  4. Dimensions of Cultures: It is about cultures’ main differences that also explain the integration choices and strategies of a person with immigrant background (thoughts), feelings, talks, and actions. There are six main differences.

References

  • Berry, J. W. (2003) Conceptual Approaches to Acculturation. In K. M. Chun, P. B.
  • Congress, Elaine & Manny Gonzalez (eds.) (2005) “Using the Culturagram to assess and empower culturally diverse families.” In Multicultural perspectives in working with families. (Congress, Elaine, ed.) New York: Springer.
  • De Mello, Anthony (1992) the USA, Doubleday
  • Haghseresht, Arman (2012) School, a Miniature of Society: Life Stories about Well-being, Education and Career Plan of Young Iranians in Finland, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing
  • Hofstede, Geert (2011) Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context,

                          http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=orpc

  • Schaetti, Barbara F. & Sheila J. Ramsey & Gordon C. Watanabe, (2008) Personal Leadership, the USA, Flying kite Publications

* Note: Arman Haghseresht has modified and developed the above methods and theories to some extent!

The history of this service:

As a tutor, I noticed that cultural encounters caused challenges. I developed solutions for them that worked well. For my service, I developed them further, and they succeeded too.