
Employees in Kenya
Blogs and articles, Links, News
My article 'Attract, retain and find employees in Kenya' has originally been published on the CUBE IN platform of the EU, for SME's in emerging markets.
Important!
The 5 most important things to know about managing employees in Kenya are the…

Finding business partners in Kenya
Blogs and articles, Links, News
This article has originally been published on the CUBE IN platform of the EU, meant for SME's in emerging markets.
Important!
The 5 most important things to know about doing business in Kenya are the following:
Business is done between people…

Culture and Corona in Africa
Blogs and articles, Links, News
One single enemy
The world is under the spell of the corona virus. As Damiaan Denys, a Dutch psychiatrist and philosopher, wrote in a Dutch daily newspaper: instead of humans fighting each other, this time “the world is threatened by one…

Many good reviews 2019
Blogs and articles, Links, News
At the end of 2019: let's look back and see some of the reviews from both trainees as well as students.
See the article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/year-2019-some-reviews-alette-vonk/

Modernity and Tradition: Management in Africa (kopie)
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MODERNITY AND TRADITION: MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
International managers know it: the best practices and tools of ‘Western’ management cannot be simply transferred to other parts of the world. They need some serious adaptation. Several scholars…

Ethnicity and nation building in Africa
Blogs and articles, Links, News
This article was originally published on my LinkedIn.
Nation building
Africa has an enormous wealth of thousands different cultures and peoples, spread out over 54 different countries. Now the question rises whether the ethnic groups…

Innovation and Culture
Blogs and articles, Links, News
This article was originally published on my LinkedIn page.
Power distance
Every company or organisation needs to innovate to stay relevant, to keep a competitive edge and remain on top of the business. Research shows that creativity and…

The Dutch Team
Blogs and articles, NewsIt’s like herding cats! This article, by Alette Vonk, was originally published in the Xpat Journal (Volume 21 issue #1, Autumn 2018). It is about the Dutch habit of ‘emerging insight’, which can drive people from other countries to despair.
A…

Article: “Natália is at a loss”
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This is an article of Alette Vonk for connect2us in the Xpat Journal: “Natália is at a loss.”
Just a few months ago, Natália moved to the Netherlands with her mom, dad and two brothers. She’s an intelligent girl and her Dutch…

Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Blogs and articles, Links, NewsA blog that I published in the Journal of Jobnet Africa and on my LinkedIn page: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.
International companies doing business in unexplored markets with different cultures, face some of the world´s toughest…


