ABSTRACT
Intercultural competence is a basic prcrcqms1te for the success of enterprises activities in foreign countries. Due to that finding, ergonomics face the challenge to view the present ergonomic methods and concepts for the transferability to other cultures. The Professorship of Human Factors and Ergonomics at the Chemnitz University of Technology investigates that topic and examines the cultural dependence of scientific questions in the field of product and process ergonomics. ln relation to that, an approach for a culntral concept, to structure and map cultural diversity, was introduced. Therefore, the focus of this contribution concentrates on the process ergonomic approach to solutions further challenged with the present approach regarding their cultural dependence. The main concern are questions in labor organization like culture adequate design of organizational structures and concepts as well as the transferability of elements in product systems and their implementation.
