Multicultural Communication 4/28/13 Multicultural communication/relationship analysis In a world full of many different cultures, ethnicities, languages, classes, and values, multicultural communication has played an instrumental role in our every-day activities. Whether it is at work or school, it is a variable that strongly reflects and influences the way that an individual acts in the world. As a current full-time college student and part-time worker, I have experienced many moments of multicultural
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“The dimensions of culture may be categorized as Communication, Religion, Ethics, Values and Attitudes, Manners, Customs, Social Structures and Organizations, and Education”. In the late 1960s and early 1970s an IBM sociologist named, Geert Hofstede, studying the diversity of his company, concluded that aside from individuals, a country can have a culture or personality that can be scored and compared with other countries. His theory of cultural dimensions includes only five categories: Power distance
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04hofstede (ds) 27/8/02 1:46 pm Page 1 Human Relations [0018-7267(200211)55:11] Volume 55(11): xx–xx: 028921 Copyright © 2002 The Tavistock Institute ® SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks CA, New Delhi Dimensions do not exist: A reply to Brendan McSweeney Geert Hofstede In January 2001 Human Relations invited me to write a response to an article by Brendan McSweeney which was a critical examination of my 1980 book Culture’s consequences, to coincide with the forthcoming
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of people who routinely confront cultural differences in a digital environment that is constantly changing. This article mentions how understanding cultural differences is imperative for the success of a group of individuals within a team communicating virtually from different locations throughout the world. But also talks about the challenges global virtual teams will face with the use of technology. Third, the reading also distinguishes what is needed for effective virtual team considering the people
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known as an economically powerful an stable country. Japan’s economy is among the 3 largest economies worldwide and is the second most technologically powerful economy. From a cultural perspective Japan has strong cultural values greatly influenced by Confucianism and western cultures. When analyzing Japan from Hoftede Cultural dimension point of view it is clear that is low power distance culture with high collectivism, high masculinity, high uncertainty avoidance, and long-term oriented. This tendencies
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Considerable research has already been done on the cross cultural differences in the workplace (eg. Hofstede 1980, Pudelko and Harzing, 2008). However organizations only began to take initiative to bridge this difference in the form of pre-departure training a few of decades ago. Naturally researchers began to study the actual effectiveness of pre-departure and cross cultural training from various perspectives, some of which will be discussed below. Tung (1987) was perhaps one of the earliest researchers
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Communication Opinion Paper Health Care changes are being made daily on how to communicate with others and technology is helping. Communication is very important in health care. I feel that without any communication then everyone would be lost and there would be a lot more people sick than there already is today. Learning the different types of communication can benefit in having a productive work place and knowing the consumers will come back to a provider who takes the time to understand the consumer
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Hofstede's six basic cultural dimensions • Power distance (PDI), or the degree to which members of a national culture automatically accept a hierarchical or unequal distribution of power in organizations and the society; This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The fundamental issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people. People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power
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help everyone become acquainted with one another. While attending the meeting the members in the group are staying with their own culture and not communicating with anyone outside their group. Because these different cultures are not mingling, the cultural phenomenon in this situation is the language, ethnocentricity, beliefs etc. This is because each of the groups has their own values and standards. Each of the cultures ethnocentricity is different and they use their own standards based on their culture
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Spanglish Movie Reflection This paper examines the movie "Spanglish", which portrays the culture difference in a Mexican woman and a white woman. Some of the characters in the movie were Flor Moreno (Paz Vega) is a poor, Mexican single mother who is hired as the housekeeper for a rich American family in Los Angeles: John (Adam Sandler) and Deborah Clasky (Téa Leoni), their kids Bernice (Sarah Steele) and Georgie (Ian Hayland), and Deborah's alcoholic mother Evelyn Wright (Cloris Leachman). It
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