Centre for Economic Transformation| CET
Dr. R. Schreuders (Riana)
Always live in hope, travel with those you love, strive to change the world, be extraordinary, not ordinary.
Dr Riana Schreuders-van den Bergh joined the Amsterdam School of International Business as a lecturer in 2013. She has been involved in teaching modules related to cross-cultural awareness and cross-cultural business skills, as well as functioning as a mentor and thesis supervisor.
Dr Schreuders feels that teaching young minds and shaping tomorrow’s leaders is a great task and responsibility, and that AMSIB provides a platform for growth and development where both students and lecturers are on a learning journey. The diversity of the school and the innovative teaching environment are what she feels provide a perfect laboratory where students and staff can stretch their minds and prepare for the global marketplace.
She relocated from South Africa to The Netherlands in 2009. She is a registered Industrial/Organisational Psychologist at the Health Professions Council of South Africa, and she started her academic career as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria in 2005. She has also worked as a researcher and guest lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and she occasionally lectures at a number of universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands.
In the field of Human Resource Management, Dr Schreuders has varied experience, and also she has worked as a freelance trainer and assessment psychologist for various large mines in South Africa. In 2009, she started working as a consultant/trainer for Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting in Amsterdam. There, she was responsible for the development and implementation of tailor-made training programmes and the co-facilitation of executive leadership programmes.
Dr Schreuders is currently involved in a research project called WeSoar, which concerns the dilemmas faced by successful female entrepreneurs around the world. This project is a collaboration between three organisations: Synquity, United Success and Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. The project aims to bridge the gap between the academic and corporate world.
She obtained her Bachelor’s with Honours, and a Master’s of Commerce with specialisation in Human Resource Management (all cum laude) at the University of Pretoria. Upon completion of her Honours degree, she spent three months working on a CSR project with AIESEC Philippines foundation in Cebu City, the Philippines. Her own experiences of living and working in different countries, and adjusting to culture shock fired her passion to conduct her PhD research on ‘The cultural intelligence and adjustment experiences of self-initiated expatriate women.’
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Towards a dynamic conceptual model for understanding the impact of social isolation on SIE women's adjustment and career development
Schreuders, R., Carita, A. M., & van Aswegen, S. L. (2023). Towards a dynamic conceptual model for understanding the impact of social isolation on SIE women's adjustment and career development. Career Development International, 28(4), 377-391. [1362-0436].
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Outside-Outsiders:
Schreuders, R. (2023). Outside-Outsiders: Exploring career development and the acquisition of career capital for SIEs in a hybrid workplace.. Abstract from Future of Work Conference , Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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South Africans are tough: Adjustment in a multiplex crisis context
Schreuders, R., Carita, A. M., & van Aswegen, S. L. (2022). South Africans are tough: Adjustment in a multiplex crisis context. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation, Bamberg.
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Edubook Culture and Intercultural Communication
Trompenaars, F. (Author), & Schreuders, R. (Author). (2021). Edubook Culture and Intercultural Communication. Digital or Visual Products, Edumundo. https://www.edumundo.com/edubook/culture-intercultural-communication
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Working Title: Exploring the impact of social isolation on South African SIE women in the Netherlands.
Schreuders, R. (2021). Working Title: Exploring the impact of social isolation on South African SIE women in the Netherlands.
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Exploring the role of motivational cultural intelligence in SIE women’s adjustment
Schreuders-van den Bergh, R., & Du Plessis, Y. (2016). Exploring the role of motivational cultural intelligence in SIE women’s adjustment. Journal of Global Mobility, 4(2), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-02-2016-0003
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Going Global Versus Staying Local: The Performance Management Dilemma in the International Context
Trompenaars, F., & van den Bergh, R. (2016). Going Global Versus Staying Local: The Performance Management Dilemma in the International Context. In C. Barmeyer, & P. Franklin (Eds.), Intercultural Management : A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy (pp. 260-272). Palgrave Macmillan.
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Collaborating to Identify the personal and business dilemmas of successful women entrepreneurs
Trompenaars, F., van der Steege, M., & Schreuders, R. (2014). Collaborating to Identify the personal and business dilemmas of successful women entrepreneurs. (Maastricht School of Management Working paper series; No. 2014/10). Maastricht School of Management. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/msmwpaper/2014_2f10.htm
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Culture, cultural intelligence and project management
Schreuders, R., & Du Plessis, Y. (2014). Culture, cultural intelligence and project management. In Project Management: A Behavioural Perspective: Principles, Practices and Cases Pearson. https://www.perlego.com/book/1440022/project-management-a-behavioural-perspective-1e-a-behavioural-perspective-pdf
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Highly skilled migrant women: a career development framework
van den Bergh, R., & Du Plessis, Y. (2012). Highly skilled migrant women: a career development framework. Journal of Management Development, 31(2), 142-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621711211199485
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Self-Initiated Expatriate Women’s Careers — Reflections, Experiences and Choices
van den Bergh, R., & Du Plessis, Y. (2012). Self-Initiated Expatriate Women’s Careers — Reflections, Experiences and Choices. In Talent Management of Self-Initiated Expatriates (pp. 202) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230392809_10