IOR’s Dr. Mark Frederick Authors Chapter in The Global HR Practitioner Handbook

NORTHBROOK, Ill. - April 16, 2013 - PRLog -- Northbrook Illinois, April 11, 2013– IOR Global Services (“IOR”) is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Frederick, Director, Global Talent Management’s has written a chapter for the first volume of the Global HR Practitioner Handbook.   The chapter, entitled, Intercultural Communication in the Workplace, explores the various intercultural communication issues which organizations sometimes face and also examines leading practices that companies can use to bridge intercultural communication gaps among co-workers.  Additionally, Dr. Frederick also discusses how global HR can be a facilitator for improving intercultural communication.

“Globalization has created an incredibly diverse intercultural workforce with a wide variety of communication patterns” says Dr. Frederick.  “This chapter highlights some of the major communication challenges organizations face in the global marketplace and discusses how HR can better manage and integrate cultural differences in workplace communication.”

Published by Global Immersion Press, Dr. Frederick’s chapter is available for purchase and download at the Global Immersion Press website:

www.globalimmersionpress.com

About IOR Global Services

IOR Global Services is a leading provider of global mobility and talent management solutions designed to advance employee effectiveness across cultures. The company takes a personal approach delivering destination services, language training and translation, intercultural training and assessment tools. IOR provides unrivaled efficiency and quality for its clients through responsiveness, flexibility, and problem-solving capabilities. IOR is a premier thought leader in the field, sharing its global knowledge for over 30 years.

About Global Immersion Press

The mission of the Global Immersion Press is to promote the teaching and learning of global HR around the world by developing sustainable, flexible and affordable products to enhance, develop and share the global HR body of knowledge.  The Global HR Practitioner Handbook (Lisbeth Claus, editor-in-chief) takes basic global HR topics and considers them from the perspective of HR practitioners who play a leadership role in the management of human capital for their global organizations. More information at: www.globalimmersionpress.com