This paper seeks to present the challenges reported by project leaders of cross-cultural geographically distributed‚ or virtual project teams operating within the matrix organisation of ABC‚ a multinational company based in Switzerland. Design/methodology/approach – The research is qualitative and exploratory‚ taking the form of inductive thematic analysis. Findings – The key themes reported to be of significance were the challenge of leadership‚ managing virtual aspects of communication and
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7.0 Intercultural communication and negotiation in Indochina (Cambodia‚ Laos‚ and Vietnam) INTRODUCTION Under this chapter‚ explores three main sub-topic which is firstly is barriers to effective communication‚ secondly is approaches to successful international negotiations‚ and thirdly is being culturally intelligent in Indochina. The discussion of differences in communicative goals in an intercultural negotiation setting. Every country have their own cultural whether Cambodia‚ Laos‚ and Vietnam
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has its own communication style and habits. These different styles do not translate well and businesses need to pay special attention to communication with foreign colleges and clients. The communications between people happens all the time‚ especially when one of the parties is using a second language. As mentioned earlier‚ intercultural communication problems must occurred because of linguistic and cultural differences. Language can be a barrier to intercultural communication that is problems
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important communication can be in a life or death situation. This film also demonstrates many concepts and examples from our textbook‚ IPC3. Throughout this paper‚ I will discuss specific examples from the film and apply it to IPC3’s concepts (highlighted in bold) to demonstrate the knowledge from which I have acquired during this summer course. I will be discussing six different interpersonal communication areas in this paper‚ which are: close relationships‚ conflict‚ nonverbal communication‚ emotion
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low-context culture‚ speakers in a high-context culture seem to talk around a subject and never get to the point. This movie is related to four countries‚ Japan‚ American‚ Mexico and Morocco. In the four countries‚ Japan is the high-context country‚ American is the low-context country. Japan is a typical high-context country; now let’s talk about the high-context culture in the movie. When the film appeared a Japanese deaf-mute girl‚ no matter the background is noisy or quiet‚ the dialogue is always
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At home and in class‚ we have watched 3 videos related to intercultural communication problems that can happen in real-life. We also read about Barna’s Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication which is deeply related to the videos. The first video on the baseball player eating with a Japanese coach’s family had many examples of the “stumbling blocks.” First of all‚ there is the assumption of similarities from the beginning of the video‚ which is the first and the longest stumbling block
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Intercultural Paper I interviewed Kotryna Klizentyte‚ who is from Lithuania. Kotryna’s family is from Lithuania‚ where she was born. Unfortunately‚ when Kotryna was young‚ her parents separated and got divorced‚ her mom went to America with $50 and made it and was able to save enough and start a new life bringing Kotryna and her sister over to America. Kotryna was about three years old when she came to America. Though she has lived in America for the majority of her life‚ she feels attached
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Susan Kilgard 10/1/12 Film Analysis Paper #1 Crash This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie symbolizes what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on their ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people’s
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Jillian Terlonge Intercultural Comm. Japanese Humor Masculinity & Femininity There are many factors in which effect one’s sense of humor in each particular region. Certain things and instances may reflect humor in a different way for each individual. Humor also varies in the sex of the individual also‚ because something a male would find funny a woman would find repulsive or vice versa. In Japan there are several instances in which humor is used either positively or negatively
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This essay reviews a wonderful speech by Rae Ann Ianniello about nonverbal communication skills in intercultural settings‚ which was delivered at Ohlone College on Oct. 1‚ 2010‚ from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. According to Professor Ianniello’s speech‚ she first explained how culture dictates one’s nonverbal behaviors and mannerisms. One’s communicative behaviors are largely dependent on the culture in one has been raised. She imagines that culture is like an iceberg which has a visible section above
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