Results of Poor Cross Cultural Awareness Having a poor understanding of the influence of cross cultural differences in areas such as management‚ PR‚ advertising and negotiations can eventually lead to blunders that can have damaging consequences. It is crucial for today’s business personnel to understand the impact of cross cultural differences on business‚ trade and internal company organization. The success or failure of a company‚ venture‚ merger or acquisition is essentially in the hands of
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Cross cultural understanding simply refers to the basic ability of people within business to recognize‚ interpret and correctly react to people‚ incidences or situations that are open to misunderstanding due to cultural differences. Cross cultural awareness develops from cross cultural knowledge as the learner understands and appreciates a culture internally. This may also be accompanied by changes within the learner’s behavior and attitudes such as a greater flexibility and openness. However‚ cross
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Introduction …..……………………………………………………….. Page 3 Nike history ….………………………………………………………... Page 3-4 Marketing ….…………………………………………………………. Page 4-6 Nike factories ………………………………………………………….. Page 6 Nike financial results ………………………………………………….. Page 7 SWOT analysis …………………………………………………………. Page 8 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………… Page 9 Bibliography…………………………………………………………….. Page 10 Nike – Just do it Today Nike is a multinational corporation and also the leading
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COM/360 Communication Guide Cross-Cultural Communication When people communicate with others for business purposed it is important that communication is open‚ clear‚ and concise. When it involves people or groups of people from two different countries that are working together it is vital that the cultural background and ways of life are considered because it will allow each group to effectively communicate with each other. When it comes to business practices a lot of cultural beliefs is brought in to
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Executive Summary This assignment is to analyze the U.S. culture and Japanese culture by using Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions and Trompenaars’s cultural dimensions. According to the Wal-Mart’s Japanese strategy case to distinguish the difference culture in Japan compare with U.S. There are some problems that Wal-Mart may encounter which are Japan’s current distribution system‚ people’s traditional thinking of low price equate low quality and people would not going big shopping. The inherent
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Pergamon English for Specific Purposes‚ Vol. 17‚ No. 3‚ pp. 241-265‚ 1998 © 1998 The American University. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain 0889-4906/98 $19.00+0.00 PII: S0889-4906(97)00012-4 A Cross-cultural Comparison of Letters of Recommendation Kristen Precht Abstract--Letters of recommendation (LRs) from different countries are as individual as the local academic cultures from which they arise. Distinct regional patterns emerged in this comparative
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communication and technologies across the world; the overlapping of economic and cultural activity; rather is also used to the efforts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)‚ the World Bank and others to create a global free market for goods and services; politically and potentially‚ damaging for a lot of poorer nations - is really a means to exploit the larger process; in the sense of connectivity in economic and cultural life across the world‚ has been growing for centuries. However‚ many believe
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AVOIDING CROSS-CULTURAL MISCOMMUNICATION Abstract International business has been developing fast in the globalization. We can see Chinese businessmen in most of places in the world‚ from Africa to America‚ and many 2 foreign companies are investing in China‚ vise versa. I‚ a Vietnamese woman‚ am working for Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) in oil and gas field in Vietnam where lots of foreign oil and gas corporations are operating such as KNOC‚ Halliburton‚ Schlumberger‚ BP‚ and Premier.
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Ethical perspectives- Cross-cultural perspectives ETH/316 July 7‚ 2013 Abstract The Global Company chose to research is a global organization‚ PricewaterhouseCoopers‚ known in the United States as PwC. Ethical perspectives in this global organization and compare the ethical perspectives across cultures that are involved in this global organization will be addressed. This company delivers assistance in quality assurance‚ advisory services‚ and tax. The company consists of a network of
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Understanding intergenerational‚ cross-cultural conflict Due to the increasing immigration from China to Australia‚ the phenomenon accompanies with a series of social problems‚ in this essay‚ the author will combine previous research and theoretical materials to explore one of the problems—the intergenerational conflicts in Chinese immigration family in Australia. The whole essay can be finished with responds of four questions‚ which includes how the conflicts emerge; what problems the conflicts
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