12, no.2, 73-89 ©2009 Management futures Printed in canada Cross-cultural Communication and Multicultural Team Performance: A German and American Comparison by Steven W. Congden University of Hartford, U.S.A. Alexei V. Matveev College of Staten Island – CUNY, U.S.A David E. Desplaces College of Charleston, U.S.A. This study builds on work by Matveev & Nelson (2004) which investigated the relationship between cross-cultural communication competence and multicultural team performance using
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Review: General Management Effective cross-cultural management has to be grounded in a detailed knowledge of individual cultures. Discuss using examples from two multinational companies. I/ Introduction: In times of rapid globalisation and economic development growth, the environment of business has become more and more complicated as a huge number of firms want to globally expand their businesses. Subsequently, the managerial implications of cross-cultural management is the challenge of this
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12/13/13’ Cultural Competence To begin with, in order for people to understand cultural competence, they must know the meaning of culture. What is culture? Culture can be defined as different experiences of people customs, values, beliefs, and languages. It also entails of worldviews, ways of communicating and knowing. Also culture can be classified as race/ethnicity, social class, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender or disability. Cultural of conglomerates can refer
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Individual Assignment Co-Cultures in a Multicultural Society COM/403 – Human Factors in Technology Ron Bell December 19, 2011 Introduction In the film “In the Heat of the Night,” the film depicted a black and white culture where the dominant group in the town is white, with the few blacks living on the out skirts of the town in run down slummy areas, while whites live in mansions. However, a little know chief who is white welcomes a black
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Exam #1 Study Guide and Tips MGMT 301 Section DL1 & 001 The exam will have 25 multiple choice questions (3 pts each) and 2 short answer/essay questions (15pt & 10 pts). When you are responding to short answer/essay exam questions, keep the following in mind: • Use correct grammar, spelling and punctuation • Provide ample justification for all answers • Integrate knowledge gained from course material • Provide evidence for all assertions or claims • Apply course concepts
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Edward T. Hall : Cultural Dimension Introduction „A fish only realizes it needs water to live when it is no longer swimming in the water. Our culture is to us like water to the fish. We live and breathe through our culture." As Trompenaar's quote outlines, culture is a crucial part of someone's life or even indispensable for the life of humans. This is because culture determines a human's basic assumptions, values, norms and belief systems as well as a human's behaviour, language, food, drinking
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and high anxiety are stumbling blocks in intercultural communication are supported by experience. As we all know intercultural communication can be very stressful and create uncomfortable moments, when someone speaks to a person from a different cultural without knowing or able to speak the same language, sometimes can make things more difficult and could end up creating problems because the other person didn`t not understand what they meant. In today`s society people don`t need to leave there house
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Cross-Cultural Communication Paper Arab World v/s Bulgaria MBA 501 – Business Communications and Research Methods Cross-Cultural Communication Paper December 5, 2011 Arab World is rather heterogeneous group of nations and tribes who live in 22 states, counts more than 350 million people spread on bigger than Europe territory with very long distances - 7800 km. from East to West (United Nation Website, 2008). However based on common religion, origin and cultural roots many authors talk
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Unit V Assignment Culture and Consumer Behavior Research Method. This research investigates the effect of culture on various aspects of consumer behavior in an integrative framework among the three ethnic groups in Nigeria. The cultural groups include an Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa ethnic groups. The method of research will be an experimental research on the ethnic culture and how it affects consumer behavior. The objective for doing this research are as follow: what culture it and how it impacts
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Reflective Log Hofstede’s 4 dimensions Power distance: Society can accept and expect that power is distributed unequally in the organizations and institutions. Power distance has different between large and small. People with large power distance will great acceptance of unequal power, but people with a small power distance want power to be shared equally. Some Asian countries are large power distance and western countries are small power distance. Uncertainty Avoidance: When a society has
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