Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi

Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi (* 1947 in Behringersmühle / Pegnitz ) is an expert and author on intercultural competence and diversity management .

Life

Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi comes from a refugee family and grew up as the oldest child of five children in southern Germany. She initially completed two vocational training courses. In 1968 and 1969 she worked first in Vietnam during the Vietnam War , then from 1970 to 1972 in Afghanistan .

Hecht-El Minshawi then studied philosophy , pedagogy , sociology and psychology at the University of Bremen and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD on the subject of intercultural relationships .

At the same time, she set up her Interkultur Institute from 1973 to offer intercultural qualification programs for internationally active management and specialist staff. She is an expert and author for intercultural and diversity competence.

Numerous activities abroad, intercultural cooperation with colleagues and research programs on cultural peculiarities in the following countries followed: USA , Canada , Iran , India , Vietnam, Malaysia , Singapore , Hong Kong , United Kingdom of Great Britain , Ireland , Spain , Australia , New Zealand , Egypt , Arabian Peninsula and North Africa .

Publications

• Adieu. A long conversation. Omnino, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95894-114-4 u. ISBN 978-3-95894-115-1 (e-book).
• Muslims in everyday life and at work. Integration of refugees. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-53374-1 .
• Jumps in the air and roots of life. My intercultural paths. Ulrike Helmer, Sulzbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89741-384-9 .
• Intercultural Competence - Managing Cultural Diversity. Training handbook . Co-author Jutta Berninghausen. Kellner, Bremen / Boston 2009, ISBN 978-3-939928-07-2 .
• Work worldwide. Well prepared for a job and career abroad . Co-author Marja Szodruch. Redline Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-636-01580-8 .
• Business know-how of the Gulf States . Redline Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-636-01548-8 .
• Diversity competence through auditing . Culture - structure - strategy . Co-authors Jutta Berninghausen u. Simone Hartwig. IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-88939-889-5 .
• Intercultural Competence. Managing Cultural Diversity . Co-author Jutta Berninghausen. IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-88939-873-4 .
• Intercultural Competence. Soft skills for international cooperation . Beltz-Verlag, 2nd edition, Weinheim / Basel / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-36469-2 .
• Economic miracle in the desert. Strategies for long-term success in the Gulf States . Redline Economy, Heidelberg 2007.
• Living in cultural diversity. Managing Cultural Diversity. Going other ways - discovering new things . Co-author Jürgen Engel. Foreword by Hans Koschnick . Kellner, Bremen / Boston 2006, ISBN 3-927155-51-9 .
• Understand Muslims at work and in everyday life. Business between Orient and Occident. Together with Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel / Berlin 2004.
• Intercultural Competence - For a Better Understanding. Key factors for international cooperation . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel / Berlin 2003.
• Intercultural management skills. Training material. Together with Jutta Berninghausen. Published by the State Office for Development Cooperation, Bremen 2003
• Visiting India. Faux pas and how to avoid them. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• Nice country, poor country. Vietnam on the move. Experiences with another world . Donat, Bremen 1996.
• Two worlds, one love. Living with partners from other cultures . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992.
• We look for what we dream of. Study on German-Foreign Couples. Nexus, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Open doors . Bläschke, Vienna 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Consulting and training for diversity management and intercultural competence, cultural diversity in organizations, cultural misinterpretations, culturally sensitive concepts, interculturalization of your employees . Interkultur.info. April 18, 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2010.