A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication

     In business, successful communication is the key to success, and being able to relate to a customer is the best form of communication. This is why cross-cultural communication is so important as the business world continues to globalize itself. Unfortunately, “A lack of awareness about the culturally prescribed rules and norms of communication behaviors can cause public relations projects to fail, or worse, backfire.” (Zaharna, 2001, p.135).

Kreitner, R. (2009). International Management and Cross-Cultural competence. (11th ed.). Management. Mason, Ohio: South-Western Cengage

Using communication techniques appropriate to different social and cultural groups: The business environment of the 21st century is expanding to include people from cultures and

     Some employees at the law firm, understand that cross-cultural communication includes the ability to successfully form, foster, and improve relationships with members of a culture different from their own. It is based on knowledge of many factors, such as the other culture's values, perceptions, manners, social structure, and decision-making practices, and an

Communication with individuals from different cultures can be challenging. Therefore, developing proficiency in cross-cultural communication skills is essential for businesses looking to expand abroad. Cebuc and Oisif (2008) stress on how communication is important in the business world, since it’s a means of establishing relationships with suppliers, partners and even the customers. The writers recommend that expanding businesses to try and adapt to the business styles of the overseas country. For instance in some northern European countries, the natives are more straight forward and prefer to not waste time talking about

In this era of Globalisation, cross cultural management is the biggest challenge that is faced by the organisations. Within the business context, cross culture refers to interaction between different cultures. Cross cultural management refers to managing the employees from different cultural background in one environment (Adler, 2008). Cross culture management is a significant issue within the organisations as the success of an organisation depends upon the smooth interaction of the employees. This paper is aimed at providing insight on the cross cultural management and the main issues and challenges relating to cross cultural management. For the purpose of this paper, two articles, “Cross-cultural Differences in Management”, by Amman & Jordan

"We didn 't all come over on the same ship, but we 're all in the same boat."- Bernard Baruch

Reflecting upon the lectures of Cross-Cultural management was very useful in linking the theory I learned with the experience I had, especially, it provided the opportunity to ‘step back’ from the decisions I made and helped to identify the reasons of my behaviour in different cross-cultural situations. Moreover, commenting upon past experience brought the chance to further develop social and communication skills, strengthen cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness which are of a paramount significance in today’s globalizing world.

Cross cultural diversity is the growing topic in today’s context. Cross culture competence is a set of skill that consistently appears in the topologies of management. Cross culture competence defines the characteristics of the global manager. As business has become increasingly globalized, the number of employees involved in international operations has increased, and the firm has been transformed into a multicultural organization. At the same time, the classroom is itself final process of change. The globalization of the higher education sector and increasing diversity in local populations has meant that in many universities around the world, classrooms have become

All communication is cultural. It ties to where we 've grown up, how we have learned to speak, and even how we have learned to communicate nonverbally. That being said, intercultural communication or "the symbolic exchange process whereby individuals from two or more different cultural communities attempt to negotiate shared meaning in an interactive situation" is an ever evolving discipline (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2012, p. 5). In today 's world, intercultural communication will be extremely important, because after all, diversity and the need for cultural awareness will only be increasing. In light of this, over the course of this semester I have partnered with an international student, to see just how intercultural communication actively takes place in everyday communication events. In the following few pages, I will talk about several communication events I have shared with this student so far, and evaluate them for what may or may not make them effective in intercultural communication.

This essay will be discussing how important interacting and networking with people from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds is in terms of today’s dynamic and global commercial world; leading to surprisingly innovative solutions. However, if organisations or individuals fail to meet the countries culture it can lead to an unprofessional relationship and cause obstacles throughout the business.

Intercultural management is also called as cross cultural management. It is very important to know about other cultures where diversity exists as it helps companies run rewarding efficient, effective and highly productive organizations. There are many aspects of intercultural management that have direct and significant impacts on both employees’

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

persists in trying to adapt the world to himself” [Shaw]. Internalize this quote begs the

In this article, the main characteristics of intercultural training programmes (ICT) are reviewed, in terms of the history of ICT, the goals and objectives of that, the approaches to classifying training techniques are discussed, as well as the design of an appropriate intercultural training programme. Moreover, the strengths and shortcoming of two specific approaches are discussed.