Cultural Differences And The Impact On The Communication Process

Team and Group Communication Processes: The systematic description on the nature of the processes of communication in several areas including businesses and organizations is known as communication theory. Organizations and businesses are required to understand the concept of communication theory because the achievement of organizational and business goals is dependent on effective communication. Communication theory focuses on examining the process of transmitting information from the sender to

major impact on the effectiveness of the communicational process. Many studies have highlighted the fact that culture influences the way of thinking of an individual that can have major impact on the communication pattern of the strategies (Mazanec et al. 2015). For that reason, organizations often try to develop effective strategies to utilize cultural diversity for capturing different perspectives to a particular decision. Specifically, globalization has made proper management of cultural diversity

shortcomings. Having a team of individuals with various personalities, perceptions, and values can cause assimilation to become difficult. During an individual’s lifetime, some remarkable human assets are acquired, resulting in the creation of his or her cultural background. National culture can be present on any team, but most teams are formed with members belonging to the same city or state, which makes it easier to arrange. However, a virtual team with a national culture is a more difficult concept to

very important that employees and top management both understand the cultural intelligence so they can execute the effective leadership and management tactics. Cultural intelligence provides an opportunity to understand and effectively function across the different cultures (Dyne, Ang & Livermore, 2009). For any leader to work efficiently and effectively in different culture environment it is very important to have cultural knowledge and adaptability. To work in different culture it is necessary

Impact of Communication and Cultural Differences on Occupational Therapy Practice A group reflection on communication and cultural differences has been undertaken to deliberate on and examine the resulting impacts on occupational therapy (OT) practice. As such, we have collectively chosen to define culture as “…a way of life for a group (society) that is shared and learned. Culture is not confined to observable phenomena nor is it bounded or static” (Farmer et al., 2012, p. 243). It involves

cross-cultural communication. Cultural differences at work between the USA and Russia Cross-cultural communication is about the manner people with different cultural background interact with each other face to face or at a distance, i. e. the process by which people exchange with information. Three broad areas of communication are written, verbal and non-verbal communication, or body language. Some communication styles include direct/indirect, formal/informal and emotional/neutral communication. Direct

Hofstede 's cultural dimension theory is a framework proposed by Holland psychologist Gilter Hofstedt to measure the cultural differences of different countries. He believes that culture is an environment in which people have a common psychological process, a group of people can be separated from other people. Hofstede 's cultural dimension theory is divided into five dimensions, these are Power Distance、Uncertainty Avoidance、Individualism versus Collectivism、Masculinity versus Femininity， and Long-term

The acculturation process, unlike the cultural fit model, joins cultures through the development of a common organizational language, mutual consideration and values promoting shared interests between the merging organisations (Stahl & Voigt, 2004). Acculturation looks at factors that can impact cultural differences and how to positively impact the post-acquisition integration outcome. Through the research review Stahl and Voigt

imperative that I obtained an effective level of intercultural communication competence. I managed U.S. employee communications for unplanned system issues which often had a downstream global impact within the organization. As a result, many of my communications were tailored for a global audience which consisted of the United States, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions. Prior to a sending an employee communication for a system issue, there was always a global business call

Rodney’s presentation to be rather insightful on issues of cultural differences, acculturation, and acculturation stress that might occur when people from different cultural backgrounds interact. With regards to communication, I do agree that people from different cultures have differences in communication styles. Coming from an African background, I have observed that Africans or Kenyans in particular, can be very indirect in their communication, and at times they may not say they want or hope to communicate