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Dealing with diversity: a matter of beliefs

Door: Arne Gillert 111881036945 Arne Gillert, George Chuzischvili - ; Bron: Emerald. Industrial and commercial training, volume 36, number 4, pp.166-170.   19-02-2004

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This article is based on the experience of a pilot training on “dealing effectively with diversity” for branch office bank personnel in The Netherlands. We conclude that being successful in serving ethnic minority clients is a matter of beliefs, playing a more decisive role than specific “intercultural” competencies. The experience of Rabobank shows that learning to deal with diverse clients, then, will only be effective if it is part of a larger change process, and if training is just one of several interventions: impressions and lessons learned from work in progress.