• Doctorate at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg on 'Die Generierung von Interkultur. Eine strukturationstheoretische Betrachtung kultureller Anpassung deutscher Expatriates in Mexiko'

Since 11/2014

• Academic Adviser at the Chair of Intercultural Communication

1/2011 – 10/2014

• Chair of Organisation/Sociology, Migration, Codetermination, Ruhr University Bochum, Research Assistant
• Project coordination German-Mexican research project CHAPOC (Cross-border Personnel Mobility between Mexico and Germany Changing Patterns of Organisational Coordination) (DFG/CONACYT-funded)

1/2008 – 12/2010

• Chair of Personnel Management and Intercultural Leadership, ESCP Europe, Berlin
• Research Assistant, participation in the project Leadership of Western Managers in Moscow

5/2006 – 9/2008

• Institute of Sociology, TU Berlin
  Research Assistant in the project INITAK (Internationalisierungsprozess der IT-Branche in Deutschland: Auswirkungen auf Kategorisierungsmuster von Tätigkeitsprofilen und Fachkräften)

7/2001 – 12/2005

• Lecturer of German as a Foreign Language

3/2004 – 12/2004

• Internship
  Silver Age GmbH, Freiburg
  Consultancy company for social services, senior consumers and new media

5/2002 – 10/2002

• Universidad Autónoma de México
  Lecturer of German as a Foreign Language

• To be able to understand and question complex relationships,
• As future leaders, to be sensitive to inherent and often discriminating power structures
• To train the application of theoretical assumptions to intercultural contexts

The sessions link up the micro levels of intercultural interaction with the meso and macro levels. In the similarly structured teaching research seminars, acquired theoretical principles are applied in easily understandable research projects, including instruction in methodological skills, which are of great importance for writing theses.

Cultural focus: Mexico

Dr Martina Maletzky de Garcia’s research focuses on the interactions of cross-border mobility (international assignments, migration), organisations and interculturality. She combines organisational sociological foundations with intercultural interaction research and selected issues of migration sociology.

a) Organisations and cross-border mobility: mobility regimes, interculturality and working conditions in the context of international assignments and migration

• The impact of organisational internationalisation on employees’ working conditions and living environment
• Organisational mobility patterns
• The structuring of interculture in international assignments
• International assignments in NPOs (working conditions, institutional influences on mobility regimes)

b) Interculturality in the context of migration and integration

• Integration of refugees and organisations
• Organisations as corporate boundary spanners
• Integration of refugees into skilled trades: challenges and organisational integration

Current research projects:

• Employee mobility in non-profit organisations
• Übergang in den Beruf – (interkulturelle) Herausforderungen von Geflüchteten, Bildungsinstitutionen und Handwerksbetrieben (in cooperation with the Lower Bavaria/Upper Palatinate Chamber of Crafts)