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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communication. The differences in the diversity and characteristics of employees can also lead to conflicts in communication or miscommunication. The gender differences in conveying messages are as a result of biological, psychological, religious and cultural differences among men and women (Tannen, 1993). Keywords: communication, gender differences Conflicts at the office might be due to the long hours the employees or workers spend together, the differences in the positions of the administration
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Chapter 1 1. Analyze the likely causes of the resentment over the employee manual and uniforms by considering the impact of the sender, message, decoding, feedback, context, and probable sources of noise. Describe how the problems you identified could have been minimized by different communication strategies. 2. Identify the changes in communication channels between employees and management as Sundown has grown. What channels can be used to make communication about changes
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Describe in detail how cultural differences may impact communication. Give examples. What can be done to improve communication across cultures? Effective communication is difficult under the best of conditions. Cultural differences may impact communication in many different ways such as language difficulties. In every cultural word means different things to different people. Take for instance some hand gestures which mean different things in different countries. Finger-beckoning sign in the United
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Cross Cultural Psychology Christina Williams Psychology 450 Glorivy Arce November 14, 2010 Abstract This paper will attempt to analyze cross-cultural and cultural psychology. It will examine the relationship between both, discuss the role of critical thinking in cross- cultural psychology, and discuss the methodology associated with cross-cultural research. Culture is a full range of behavior patterns (N.A. 2010, p. 1). Culture can be distinguished by a set of beliefs and attitudes from
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ICE Blocks 5 & 6—Comm 306 2008—Professor J. Martin Cross-Cultural Communication Group Briefing Assignment Information is communicated across cultures, and if it breaks down, business fails. E.T. Hall David A. Ricks, author of Blunders in International Business, says, "Cultural differences are the most significant and troublesome variables… the failure of managers to fully comprehend these disparities has led to most international business blunders." Donaldson, in the “Case of the Floundering
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Building an Enjoyable Workplace --Case of “The Road to Hell” What’s happened? The case “The Road to Hell” is a story of two individuals with different backgrounds and points of view having different interpretations of an interview. John Baker is a successful western chief engineer of the Barracania’s branch of a multinational company. He is an English expatriate, and had served his 23 years with Continental Ore in many different places which made him quite confident in understanding
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Cross-Cultural Communication Sharon Jackson XCOM/285 11/15/10 Michelle Jackson Cross-Cultural Communication The way we communicate, whether it is of a personal or business nature, has to bring us together in order for us to progress as people. Styles of communication is not the same all over the world. We have different techniques that we use in order to get our points across. Because we are not all the same and come from different cultures and ethnicities, we have to
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Cultural Implications When discussing cultural implications, the word that should be focused on first is implications. What do implications mean? There will be variety of answers to this question when completing research on implications; but the real answer is whether the implications that are made are true or false. An exact definition would be a logical relation between two propositions that fail to hold only if the first is true and the second is false (Merriam-Webster.com, 2010). As for cultural
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Multicultural Communication Good communication can make the relationship between companies better. It can avoid some potential problems that might cause a misunderstanding of intentions between each other. Also good communication can convey what people wish to express to others. In business, communication is very important. If people misunderstand others meanings, it may cause some mistakes. Because they don't have good communication, people will not do what is expected of them from others
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