Candle’s Tour de France MGB225 Intercultural Communication and Negotiation Skills Assessment 1 Name: Raya Korudova Student ID: 9385584 Tutor’s Name: Ken Huxley Word Count: 1606 1. Executive Summary Possessing cultural awareness is of an extreme importance when it comes to doing business internationally. The European Negotiations Southern Candle’s Tour de France case study illustrates its significance as it points out a lot of intercultural‚ verbal and non-verbal communication
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bridges across misunderstanding among different cultures. Furthermore‚ we should also respect our cultural differences in cross-cultural communication and improve our communicative abilities to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding and conflict in intercultural communication. 2. Conceptions of Communication‚ Cross-cultural Communication and Culture A British Professor Gillian Brown said‚ “Communication is a risky business”‚ which means the process of communication is the process of complete interaction
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with clients or customers. These cross cultural issues can be resolved by Cross cultural training Cross cultural training can and does reduce the chances of expatriate relocations going wrong. Employees need to realize the importance of intercultural understanding and its potential impact upon relocations. Cultural training aids the employee and family to better approach and deal with the relocation‚ ensuring that the negative consequences of ’culture
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We live in a culturally diverse world. People will encounter individuals from different races‚ religions‚ and nationalities in their day to day encounters. There is often anxiety surrounding unfamiliar cultures [pic] . What manners are acceptable? What will offend a person from a very different background? It can be paralyzing to deal with other people if we do not know what to expect. The following suggestions discussed in the manual‚ Becoming a Master Student‚ by Dave Ellis are applicable to people
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has both form and function‚ and‚ secondly‚ that it is not always directly translatable. It is the first of these factors which makes nonverbal communication difficult to teach‚ and the second which leads to breakdowns and misunderstandings in intercultural communication. Gestures‚ expressions and all other forms of nonverbal communication have functions‚ which‚ as with language‚ need to be taught along with their forms. Misunderstandings occur because the functions of paralinguistic forms vary from
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As our world grows‚ expands and become increasingly more interconnected‚ the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become apparent. When people from different cultures interact with one another there is intercultural communication because different cultures create different interpretation and expectations about what is seen as competent behaviors that will enable the construction of shared meanings. There are numerous definitions of culture but I will use
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are working together on many projects. To date‚ EADS soon AIRBUS GROUP have many subsidiaries (Airbus‚ Astrium‚ Cassidian‚ Eurocopter)‚ more than 133000 employees in the world and 1033 billion profits. It’s an interesting case in the study of intercultural management because this group is the result of an important merger between different group‚ different nationalities and different kind of management. That the reason why in a first part I will speak about Aérospatiale-Matra‚ DASA and CASA background
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prevail in the world. Even members of once isolated groups now frequently have contact with members of other cultural groups. Through different cultural experiences‚ people are adapting and learning different cultures. In essence‚ many are becoming intercultural. Cultural Unconscious Until people are exposed to different cultures‚ they are culturally unconscious. On a day to day basis‚ most people spend their lives interacting with others they are familiar with. Most people do not know how people
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Background: I encountered several intercultural communication problems with my uncle‚ he was shifted to Mainland China and living there because of the potential development of there‚ so I wasn’t familiar about him and we weren’t so close in relationship. Recently he came to Hong Kong and paid a visit to our family for several weeks‚ I was astounded when I heard that he would live with us‚ I was panic to communication with a different culture person. As expected‚ he has different way to handle things
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ARTICLE IN PRESS international business review International Business Review 17 (2008) 28–38 www.elsevier.com/locate/ibusrev The contribution of intercultural management to the success of international mergers and acquisitions: An analysis of the EADS group Christoph Barmeyera‚1‚ Ulrike Mayrhoferb‚Ã a ´es ` ´ Ecole de Management de Strasbourg‚ CESAG (Centre d’Etude des Sciences Applique a la Gestion)‚ Universite Robert Schuman‚ ˆt-Noire‚ 67085 Strasbourg‚ France 61 avenue de la Fore b ´
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