Private Corporations use the skills of
Applied Anthropologists in a variety of areas. These include doing
research for urban planning, working with a health organization to
study the effect of customs and behavior on health, doing market research
for advertising companies, training employees who will be working
in international divisions, or working in human resources departments.
Government Agencies
employ Applied Anthropologists as policy researchers, research
analysts, evaluators, managers, planners, needs assessors, and
policymakers.
International organizations
employ anthropologists in projects in various countries around the
world as impact assessors, researchers and cultural brokers.
Non-Profit Agencies
employ anthropologists as advocates, administrators, evaluators and
researchers.
Cross Cultural Training
is utilized in a broad range of activities such as international business,
trade, education, science and medicine which are becoming increasing
important as globalism takes hold of most aspects of contemporary
life. In your textbook, the feature called 'Cross-Cultural Miscue'
touches on issues that fall under cross-cultural training often from
a human interest perspective. Many cross cultural training organizations
are affiliated with universities and non-profit foundations. Others
are private companies. Unfortunately, there is no recognizable national
or international society which acts as a clearinghouse for this growing
field. Yet cross cultural training is an area in which anthropologists
as well those with degrees in education, psychology, business and
other disciplines can expect to find career opportunities. Our suggestion
is to go to a search engine called google.com and there conduct a
search for cross cultural training. The sites of hundreds of organizations
and companies will be found which can form the basis of an extended
search into this field.