Virtual Management Training and Culture

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introduction(1)

There is a world-wide trend to introduce virtual managementcourses (2). Transnational companies, often global players, expectan increased effectiveness of their virtual management training, bydelivering more training to more students on more subjects, in amore cost-effective way (3). The information society providesmultimedia tools to take on this challenge. (e.g. interactive CDROM's). Increasingly, telelearning resources are produced in thewestern world and, subsequently, ported to other parts of theworld. Global companies face the 'portability problem ': howto transfer telelearning materials to different (training)cultures.

This contribution illustrates by some cases the comple...

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