Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics

Why Do We Feel Anger... But Nurture Hatred? An Evolutionary Perspective on the Emotional Roots of Intergroup Conflict

2025-04-28T06:53:43+00:00

Anger and hatred are often conflated, yet they serve distinct evolutionary functions. While anger is fast, reactive emotion aimed at correcting behavior, hatred is slower, more deliberate, and aimed at exclusion or elimination. This paper explores the evolutionary roots of both emotions, highlighting their adaptive roles in interpersonal and intergroup contexts. Drawing from evolutionary psychology, affective science, and organizational behavior, we examine how anger facilitates immediate responses to norm violations, whereas hatred develops through narrative reinforcement and identity threats. Understanding this distinction has ethical and practical implications for intercultural management and conflict resolution in organizational settings.

Ethics and Interculturality: A Decolonial Approach

2025-01-28T16:20:14+00:00

In this text the question of an intercultural ethics is explored for a decolonial perspective. With an interdisciplinary bet, the dialogue is stablished between philosophical anthropology and sociocultural anthropology to investigate the human indetermination and the human diversity, the cultural configurations and its implications for ethics.

Secondly, the definition and implications of “interculturality” are studied, both from a colonial-modern approach and a decolonial one.

The text concludes by exploring the possibilities for decolonial ethics and bioethics, potentiality based on both philosophical and sociocultural anthropologies.

Curricular Renewal: A Faculty and Student Guide to Maximizing Educational Investment

2025-05-03T12:28:42+00:00

This paper serves as a dual guide, both illuminating the most relevant avenues of study for students and providing educators with actionable insights to enhance their course design. It delves into the critical intersection of higher education, evolving workplace demands, and the accelerating integration of artificial intelligence. It highlights a concerning gap between academic training and the practical skills employers seek, marked by dissatisfaction with graduate preparedness and significant underemployment. To address this, the research identifies essential competencies for navigating an AI-driven future, such as critical thinking, intellectual humility, ethical judgment, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Critically, it examines shortcomings within current higher education models, including departmental silos, rigid thought patterns, and diversity initiatives that may inadvertently promote division. Instead, it argues for a transformative educational approach prioritizing adaptable skills, cultural sensitivity, productive dialogue, and collaborative knowledge exchange. In essence, as technology and workplace dynamics rapidly shift, universities must move beyond simply awarding degrees and focus on cultivating individuals who are lifelong learners and ethical decision-makers in complex professional environments. By reforming curricula to blend theoretical knowledge with practical application and fostering a collaborative relationship with AI, higher education can better equip graduates for successful careers and impactful societal contributions.

Gala Galaction – An Ethics in Development Management Based on Christianity and Socialist Ideology at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Social Realities and Theoretical Context

2025-03-20T14:09:09+00:00

The article includes the analysis of ethics useful in development management, which was proposed by Romanian theologian, writer, and journalist Gala Galaction at the beginning of the 20th century. Through the article I demonstrated that the set of his ideas on ethics represents an original creation that can put in a different light the dominant impression I had towards the philosophical systems put into circulation by theologians or thinkers of the Romanian Orthodox Church. I have also shown how the ethics proposed by Gala Galaction are consistent with views expressed later. We also analyzed the ethical ideas promoted by Gala Galaction from the perspective of economic-social progress and development management, including their connection to the realities in Romania and Eastern Europe at the time of their launch. It is surprising to note that many of the ethical themes raised by Gala Galaction at the beginning of the 20th century are still valid today internationally.

The ethics proposed by Gala Galaction includes the following areas: reflecting the problems of the Romanian society at the beginning of the twentieth century through the prism of Christian and socialist thought, hope for the emergence of a new world based on the values of the socialist doctrine of that time, improving the material situation of the Romanian peasants, recommendations of social ethics for the attention of the rich, including the elimination of the selfishness of the rich, the relationship between ideal and consistency, the responsibility of individuals, first of all intellectuals, towards major social problems, the correlation between ethics and social dynamics.

Intercultural Coaching Case Studies

2025-06-02T05:43:48+00:00

This article presents a series of case studies that examine the practice of intercultural coaching across a range of professional settings. Each case illustrates how coaching methodologies engage with cultural complexity, highlighting the coach’s role in supporting individual, team, and organizational development. While grounded in the intercultural coaching approach pioneered by Philippe Rosinski, the contributions reflect a variety of applications and coaching styles. The cases draw on the Cultural Orientations Framework (COF), a vocabulary to navigate the cultural terrain as well as an assessment tool for enhancing cultural self-awareness, fostering dialogue, and leveraging cultural differences. They exemplify a dynamic and inclusive view of culture, which promotes unity in diversity in place of division and polarization. Through detailed accounts of coaching interventions and outcomes, the article contributes to the academic discourse on intercultural competence and coaching, offering insights for researchers and practitioners concerned with leadership, cultural dynamics, and developmental processes in various contexts.

The Artificial Womb

2025-01-13T18:32:30+00:00

Since around the 80’s of the last century, with the clinical advent of in vitro fertilization leading to the so-called “test-tube babies”, bioethicists have been concerned to issue ethical considerations regarding artificial womb technology. There are, in general, two main uses of this technology: first, ecogestation, that form of enhanced neonatal care in which only part of the gestation period takes place in an artificial womb, and second, ectogenesis, in which the entire gestation period takes place in an artificial womb. The fact that ectogestation could significantly reduce neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality is a strong argument for supporting its development. As for ectogenesis, it may bring several challenges ranging from the potential pathologisation of pregnancy and childbirth to the further commercialization of babies.

Editorial

2025-06-20T12:06:08+00:00