Eliminating Barriers to Cross-Cultural Communication through Curricular Interventions By David Dankwa-Apawu (Lecturer) Ghana Institute of Journalism P.O. Box GP 667 Accra‚ Ghana +233208704133 +233302228336 dvdankwa@yahoo.co.uk 1 ABSTRACT With the world fast becoming a global village‚ communicating across cultures has become an inevitable reality. On one hand‚ cross-cultural communication or intercultural communication presents a fine opportunity to foster global peace and prosperity
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Barriers to Communication • Physical (time‚ environment‚ comfort‚ needs‚ physical medium) • Cultural (ethnic‚ religious‚ and social differences) • Perceptional (viewing what is said from your own mindset) • Motivational (mental inertia) • Experiential (lack of similar experience) • Emotional (personal feelings at the moment) • Linguistic (different languages or vocabulary) • Non-verbal (non-word messages) • Competition (noise‚ doing other things besides listening) • Words (we
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countries. In the following‚ we will focus on the economic aspect and using IKEA as an example to define how does globalization of market and production benefit to a mutli-national corporation‚ MNC and its difficulties in entering the global market. The ways globalization of market benefit to IKEA According to the data collected from IKEA‚ there are 285 stores in 36 countries in 2008. Due to the falling of barriers‚ IKEA can easily enter into different market‚ enjoying a bigger market and market
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Barriers to communication (Interpersonal skills) To make sure you are communicating effectively‚ it is better to reduce to the barriers that effect it. E.g When the executive Manger or Managers are speaking to the co-workers-which are the audience‚ the managers voice should be clear and loud enough‚ without any interference. When mangers are usually speaking to a big crowd they tend to use mouthpieces therefore it shouldn’t be positioned under your chin‚ because then the audience will not be able
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these investments‚ therefore selecting the most appropriate market entry mode is vital. A mode of entry into an international market is the channel which the organization employs to gain entry to a new international market. In this report I will go through different alternatives of Market entry divided into two main methods; direct and indirect each sub-categorized into several options. Here I will be considering modes of entry into international markets such as the Exporting‚ Contract manufacturing
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IKEA Case Study Report Tarek Salam & Maximilien Abrezol Table of Content 1. Introduction 2 1.1. Ikea Company 2 1.2. Global Furniture Industry 4 1.2.1. World Furniture Industry’s Characteristics 4 1.2.2. World Industry Trends 5 1.2.3. Ikea’s main competitors 5 2. Question 1 8 3. Question 2 9 4. Question 3 10 5. Question 4 11 6. Outcomes 12 7. Bibliography 12 1. Introduction 1.1. Ikea Company Ingvar Kampard‚ Elmtaryd Agunnaryd is what the abbreviation IKEA stands
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Alessia Garino Diary Entry 1: My name is Winston Smith and I think it is the year 1984‚ but I’m not really sure‚ for this matter no one is really sure of that. I’m a member of the outer party of INGSOC‚ live in Oceania and I work for the Ministry of Truth. What I’m writing today is a story that should never be told‚ as it should have never happened. Our house should be a place where we feel safe‚ our shelter and not our prison. Neighbors and colleagues should be our friends‚ people we can trust
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Diary entry Dear diary‚ It was my first day at the school today. It was a ridiculous school the students were crammed into small dark rooms with teachers that seemed very uneducated. The children were not much better. Many of the teachers at the school had a really bad teaching strategy and proceeded to teach the children by ramming tonnes of text books in their faces and hoping that they learn something from it. I feel rather sorry for these children forced to learn in a very old fashioned
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Barriers of Development Identifying problems Not all children acquire adequate social skills simply from the “Developing process.” Delayed and handicapped children will tend to have more than their share of problems in social development‚ but some children who seem normal in other areas may be viewed as poorly adjusted socially. The failure of develop normal social skills is often identified in one of the following ways: Separation problems: A child beyond age two continues to have extreme difficulty
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Swedish company IKEA was the world’s largest furniture retailer since the early 1990s. It sold inexpensive furniture of Scandinavian design. The company operated in 55 countries with a workforce of 76‚000. IKEA offered nearly 12‚000 items to the home furnishings market worldwide. It sold a wide range of products including furniture‚ accessories‚ bathrooms and kitchens at 186 retail stores in 30 countries across Europe‚ North America‚ Southeast Asia‚ Middle East and Austral. IKEA is well known for
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