INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION LEARNING OBJECTIVES: • • • • To understand the intercultural nature of business communication To appreciate intercultural communication as communication shaped not only by national cultures‚ but also by other cultural dimensions such as ethnicity‚ gender and social class To heighten your awareness of differences in communication styles across cultures To develop positive attitudes towards people from different cultural groups The Roseto Story Roseto
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quality customer service is the keystone to success. Customer service is all around us. Most of us engage in customer Service activities of some type during our normal daily routines at Work. All of us encounter customer service when we go to the Store‚ call a company on the phone‚ or visit a business’s web site. However‚ simply being exposed to customer service doesn’t mean you understand how to do it well or how to evaluate whether you are receiving an acceptable level of customer service
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According to Hofstede‚ culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others (Hofstede and Hofstede‚ 2005‚ 4). However‚ human beings are not programmed same way as the computers are‚ they have reflective ability and may deviate based on unforeseen event. More so‚ culture has strong impact on the way a person act on certain situation. Between 1994 and 2005 over half the U.S. work force was made up of minorities. Currently‚ one
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Customer Relationship Management Manage customer relations to survive In present economic environment‚ efficient managers with aggressive intentions are simply not adequate enough. New and innovative management skills and approaches are required. "One of the biggest problems facing managers today is how to continuously attract customers and attain growth‚ often in an environment where products and prices among competitors are steadily moving closer together. Traditional bases for differentiation
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The indigenous people of the Arctic had a culture that was in many ways very different from that of the people of the Great Plains. Their living styles were also very different to the rest of Indigenous people of the Americas. The Arctic people where known as Inuits and Aleuts. They had to adapt to the harsh Arctic environment‚ and they obtained most of their food by hunting‚ trapping‚ and also fishing. Living in icy tundras‚ the Inuit people were unable to use agriculture for sustaining food. Therefore
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I. INTERCULTURAL TRAINING Today‚ many organizations realize the importance of intercultural management and therefore increase the use of cross-cultural training programs offered by specialized companies or provided by internal departments within multinational corporations. For example‚ Fortune 500 companies‚ including Microsoft‚ Wal-Mart‚ Apple‚ Exxon Mobil‚ Procter & Gamble‚ Coca Cola‚ etc. regularly purchase seminars or provide other forms of cross-cultural training. Multinational companies
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Intercultural Communication Intercultural communication is now a common experience as a result of globalisation. It is extremely important to understanding how culture impacts on employee relationships and communication as it can affect the success of multinational and culturally diverse businesses. Hofstede (1984) defines culture as “the mental programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another”. Intercultural communication refers to the communication between
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The culture means the religion‚ language‚ art‚ social hobbits and political culture for one group of people. Also people have different culture over the ages. The culture makes the members of the society knit community. At Peter the Great era; the culture was different and special. First the language was Slavic languages ((it is also called Slavonic language)). It is one of the languages of the Indo European. It is exactly the east Slavic language; it is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Religion
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Intercultural Communication COM/360 | | |Write a 1‚400 to 1‚750 word paper that demonstrates an example of poor intercultural | |communication that significantly affected international commerce or foreign policy. | |Illustrate the lack of intercultural communication by clearly defining cultural patterns | |—theories‚ identity‚ and bias‚ for example—and
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“It is probably better to stay at home rather than study abroad because of the difficulties a student encounters living and studying in a different culture. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?” Education is the basic requirement of life these days as it is the most important aspect as well as a necessity in moulding one’s career and lifestyle. In today’s competitive world it is almost impossible to survive if one wishes to acquire all the basic necessities and good
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