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GDay Boss! Australian Culture and the workplace by Barbara West and Frances Murphy
GDay Boss! heralds a new era in understanding the mosaic of cultures and customs engrained in the Australian workplace. It’s the first study of its kind into the enormously diverse mixture of personalities and beliefs in our unique nation, revolutionising the help available for anyone working, employing or exporting here. Gone is the notion that Australia is “just another Western society”.
Authors Barbara West and Frances Murphy – two well-travelled academics of the working world – talked to hundreds of workers based in Australia from all corners of the globe and some of the country’s most experienced management specialists. Listening to their illustrative stories and delving deep into their attitudes, perceptions, hearts and minds. Analysis of these interviews, in conjunction with numerous research studies, dissects the Australian culture, values, behaviour and communication like never before.
Underlying the multitude of multicultural issues and conflicts in custom that are highlighted, is the undeniable fact our diversity makes us like no other place in the world. “We are an incredibly multicultural society, with a patchwork past”, explains co-author and American ex-pat, Barbara West. “Currently in Australia there are 52% of us who were born elsewhere, or have a parent who was. The combination of our different heritages, cultures, customs and values result in a unique DNA footprint in terms of our workplace ethics and processes. “G’Day Boss holds a mirror up to the Australian workplace”, says Australian born co-author of G’day Boss, Frances Murphy, “so that we can better understand our own behaviour and communication style in relation to those around us who are culturally different.”
“And by understanding these differences, we can adapt when we come across them. In turn we can improve in all areas of business, offering a much more attractive option for high calibre overseas candidates and seeing much more success in our dealings with clients, partners and suppliers”.
“Far more than an academic meditation on cultural dissonance, G’day Boss! heads straight for the nucleus of the Australian experience, plucks it from its membrane and holds it to the light. This book will profoundly challenge the assumptions and actions of all Australian professionals, whatever their background or ambition.”
Australian Anthill Magazine
Read GDay Boss Review in Mosaic Magazine by Dr Sara Wills of the University of Melbourne
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Radio Interview Audio – ABC Radio Australia Breakfast Club Interview- GDay Boss
Check out Phil Kafcaloudes interview with authors Barbara West and Frances Murphy
About The Authors – Barbara West and Frances Murphy
Barbara West received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology in 1995 and has spent more than fifteen years lecturing, writing and consulting in the areas of culture, international studies and intercultural communications. She also has the most up to date Australian Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, fifty hours of training at the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication and is a qualified administrator of both the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory (ICSI). Prior to co-founding Culture Works, Barbara was an associate professor of international studies at the University of the Pacific and primary trainer for the Pacific Institute of Cross Cultural Training. During her ten years at Pacific she received nine different awards for teaching excellence, concern for student learning and public speaking. She has provided extensive cross cultural and intercultural communication training for domestic and overseas university students, faculty and staff members, as well as secondary and primary teachers, middle and upper management teams and immigrant and local ethnic community groups. She has also recently been interviewed for the S.H.A.R.C. e-newsletter on Cross Border Business, on West End Business’s radio programme, and in Australian Anthill Magazine.
Frances Murphy is an Australian citizen but has spent more than a quarter of her life living and working abroad in Germany, Africa, the U.K., Turkey and the U.S. She received her M.A. in psychology in 1999 and spent ten years working in various settings in the United States to provide psychological, cultural and educational counselling to families, children and tertiary level students. Additionally, she has three hundred hours of training through the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland, Oregon, and is a qualified administrator of both the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory (ICSI). Before co-founding Culture Works, Frances was an international student advisor at the University of the Pacific, for which she served as an ombudsman for international students. She also had in her portfolio the task to internationalise the campus, for which she designed and implemented dozens of international and intercultural programs. Her extensive and varied experiences as an expatriate, her academic work and her counselling experience have given Frances a unique understanding of intercultural competencies and outstanding skills in teaching them to others. She has returned to Melbourne in order to use her international and intercultural experience to help facilitate culture learning in her home city.
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G’Day Boss! Australian Culture and the Workplace
As a new migrants the only way to enjoy the stay here is to embrace the local culture fully. Speak the local lingo, accent, behavior and get to know what makes them tick. Pro active and build up a network.