Cross-Cultural Realities At Work Research
Cross-Cultural Realities at Work
John Doe
Motivation and Leadership
Professor: Frank Franks
June 10, 2012
Cross-Cultural Realities at Work
I conducted an interview with my neighbor who has a very different cultural background than my own and who does a job that is much different than my own. I would first like to give a brief overview of things that we discussed and then I will take this information and try to answer questions of culture, values, work, behaviors, and give insight into communicating between cultures.
My neighbor is Insert Name. She is Chinese and her family is from near Taiwan. She is older than myself and currently takes care of her household. The answers and questions pertained to the last job she had which took place at the same time she was finishing her Master’s Degree. Insert Name was a teacher of Japanese and English. To be more precise the university in which she was pursuing her Master’s had Chinese students who were …show more content…
One example is that in Japan it is more important to be respectful than it was in her home country of China. Not respectful like saying hello, but more in a different way such as not making others feel uncomfortable. If a student does well you would congratulate them alone after class and never single them out in the class and let everyone know how well they were doing. This would lead to major embarrassment and much grief. The thing she says she liked most about American culture is the freedoms it has. The people can do so many things she never dreamed of. They can even say what they feel even if it offends others. This also is one of the things she likes least. People in the American Culture she found can be unnecessarily rude to one another. She does not like the rudeness, but understands why the freedom to do so is
John Doe
Motivation and Leadership
Professor: Frank Franks
June 10, 2012
Cross-Cultural Realities at Work
I conducted an interview with my neighbor who has a very different cultural background than my own and who does a job that is much different than my own. I would first like to give a brief overview of things that we discussed and then I will take this information and try to answer questions of culture, values, work, behaviors, and give insight into communicating between cultures.
My neighbor is Insert Name. She is Chinese and her family is from near Taiwan. She is older than myself and currently takes care of her household. The answers and questions pertained to the last job she had which took place at the same time she was finishing her Master’s Degree. Insert Name was a teacher of Japanese and English. To be more precise the university in which she was pursuing her Master’s had Chinese students who were …show more content…
One example is that in Japan it is more important to be respectful than it was in her home country of China. Not respectful like saying hello, but more in a different way such as not making others feel uncomfortable. If a student does well you would congratulate them alone after class and never single them out in the class and let everyone know how well they were doing. This would lead to major embarrassment and much grief. The thing she says she liked most about American culture is the freedoms it has. The people can do so many things she never dreamed of. They can even say what they feel even if it offends others. This also is one of the things she likes least. People in the American Culture she found can be unnecessarily rude to one another. She does not like the rudeness, but understands why the freedom to do so is