Improving Mining Output
Addressing the needs of Onsite Bilingual Communication for Mining Industries in Francophone Africa and South Asia Pacific.
"Nobody can develop a country but its owninhabitants; so foreign experts are only effective to the extent that they can transfer their knowhow in the local context, and to the extent that the proposed aid fits in with felt needs and priorities in the receiving countries.
This demands intercultural understanding, communication, and training skills."
(*Hofstede1991, page. 219, emphasis added).
*Geert Hofstede, influential Dutch psychologist and anthropologist. Pioneer of cross-cultural groups and organisations.