Importance Of Cultural Difference In Business Communication

Communication culture has changed throughout the world with all the new technological advancements. These advancements in technology have made it easier to get a hold of people all over the world, but we still have to be effective communicators. We still have to get our message across clearly and take in account for other’s cultural differences. Businesses want everyone to get along and things to run smoothly. Therefore, businesses try to make sure every message is given and received clearly. If you do not respect other’s languages, it can cause problems like people not wanting to work with you or formation of cliques in the work place. Every business will tell you that they do not want these problems. Once these problems are present then the business has to fix them to ensure a positive work environment.

My research is focused on the problems associated with cross-cultural communication and how awareness of culture, language, tradition, and business practices can increase the advantages to globalization. This report will be field specific in

The importance of understanding cultural, ethnic and gender differences by managers and professionals in a business setting is essential to make the work environment comfortable. In every culture there are basic standards of thinking, and acting and these cultural differences strongly influence workplace values and communication. What may be considered acceptable and natural in the workplace for one person may be unacceptable for another person. People from diverse cultures bring new ways of thinking, creativity and language skills needed to survive in today’s work force. In many

Abstract The ability of managers to interact with individuals from cultures other than their own, requires a concerted effort on the part of business educators and academics to ‘train’ and ‘educate’ today’s students and tomorrow’s managers in the area cross-cultural communication. This is not necessarily an easy task. Teaching cross-cultural communication requires a multidisciplinary approach, which goes beyond what is traditionally offered by trainers and educators. It requires the educator to design a course that includes not only culture-general but also

In this report, I will justify, why is cross cultural communication important for businesses in the 21st century. Cross cultural communication is a very important factor for businesses in these days because of the rapid economic development hence globalisation.

rent individuals or groups, with different cultural descents. Culture, religion, and race, have all been created by us humans, and this has created a system of domination in the past between different races because of the European colonizers. In the book Intercultural Communication by Kathryn Sorrells, She explains, “As Europeans expanded their reach around the globe in the 15th to 19th centuries, intercultural contact on a scale perviously unknown occurred. In theses “encounters,” any “differences” and most especially differences as they were marked or represented through the body were constructed as significant and were infused with meaning through a hierarchical racial system that justified and promoted domination and exploitation” (Page 60-61). This shows us that centuries ago, the idea of race was created and has been passed along through many generations. If this idea of what we call “race” was never created there would not be any parting between individuals and how these individuals communicate with each other based on their cultures. In the article “Place and Kinship,” by Donald Andrew Grinde, he gives us a great example of how history influenced intercultural interactions for his culture and race. In this article Grinde says, “I also understood, from the start, that by sticking to a realistic interpretation of American Indian history from the Native American viewpoint I would not gain friends and influence people in the upper echelons of the historical profession

Communication is affected by cultural disparities. When employees speaking different languages is problematic manager provide instructions to employees or patients that can lead to misunderstanding. In some situations, is hard to get full meaning from your own language, but harder to understand a person with different cultural background who try to say something to you. Also, behavioral differences are another issue that could cause cultural misconceptions. For example, for the manager is strange to talking to someone from cultures that considered rude looking someone eyes when someone talking or how close the people stand to each other during the conversation all of these are rules of cultures which difference them one from another.

Lack of intercultural communication leads to the difficulties in aspects of business negotiations, managing conflicts and expressing disagreement. The proper usage of intercultural communication should be maintained for further decision making and growing the business internationally. The goal is to attain

Trade and communication are no longer constrained by the physical boundaries of the country in which an organization is located in. Instead, goods, information and services easily flow across national borders in a way that was not imaginable only a few decades ago. This ease of communication and trade resulted in corporations relying less on their domestic or regional marketplace, and expanding internationally to take advantage of attractive economic opportunities in other countries and the international environment (SHRM, 2015). Due to the rise of international trade and transnational corporations the average manager now communicates with vendors, employees and businesspeople in multiple countries on a daily basis. This level of global communication between individuals, requires management to display a greater level of understanding, cultural awareness and sensitivity in order for communication to be effective. Unfortunately, many managers and organizations underestimate or ignore the barriers that culture and language create when trying to communicate in a global or multi-national setting. In doing so managers are unable to communicate effectively with the broad range of cultures represented in today’s workplaces. This decreases organizations’ ability to operate on the global business stage as well communicate and function internally effectively.

The third impact of cultures is challenges in terms of language barrier and culture shock can be encountered. Language barrier and culture shock can be regarded as serious problems in terms of cross-cultural communication, as both problems would lead to other serious complications in the organization, such as having no improvements in terms of team development and organizational interaction. In this regard, teamwork is being threatened, thus, affecting the tendency for the members of the organization to bond and coexist peacefully.

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.

Competence in cross-cultural communication and understanding cultural differences is becoming more crucial in today’s society. Technology is advancing in a rapid pace and is allowing more opportunities in migration therefore existing countries has never had so much to do with each other until today. As a result of becoming inter-connected, global business is progressing rapidly. Majority of countries are participating in global business transactions, international alliances and multinational joint ventures. However, recent studies suggest that these organizations often find failure as a result of poor cross-cultural communication. Researches have analyzed the aspects of effective cross-cultural communication, how it affects business communication and why the communication is ineffective when it is.

There are almost 6000 languages being used across the world currently, mainly existing just in spoken platform. (Aitchison and Cobley, 2001) Also, each language has exhibited the realization of the basic culture. Moreover, barriers to communication that happen when people from different cultures joint venture that frequently makes people to misinterpret each other’s purposes and meaning in culture diversity circumstances, (O 'Connell, 1999). The high risk of misinterpret is an issues that is the essential of cross-culture communication. Miscommunication and misunderstandings happened, due to people from different education, experience, and trainings have different techniques of sending and receiving messages. Miscommunication happened when it has a mismatch among the speaker intends to speak the things them demands, and how to make the hearer understand them, (Coupland, Giles and Wiemann, 1991). This essay will identify many types of the important factors that UK managers should consider and learn foreign culture and foreign languages, if they need to invest or operate in foreign countries or operating with foreigner.

Language problem and other difficulties. English is the communication language within the company but it’s not native for the Russian managers. Therefore, they admit some difficulties related to this, such as sometimes it’s necessary to ask for the details from their American colleagues to understand their requests better. American managers admit the language difficulties as well but they understand that it’s not easy to express oneself in a foreign language. There are also differences in the approach to the business correspondence, e. g. the American managers use many introductory and conclusive phrases, while Russian managers go straight to the business and often

In terms of increasing globalisation, there is the need and necessity for managers to be aware and – more importantly- to understand different cultures and hence to be successful in world of high cultural connection. Culture demonstrates shared values and attitudes. It cannot be only classified by its geographical boundaries but also by a subcultural, e.g. gender, ethnic and an organisational context and is influenced by historical, social and political issues (Cavusgil, Knight and Riesenberger, 2008). The impact of the British on the Indian business culture is reflected in the well- educated Indian bureaucracy and the fact that English is taught in schools. However, cultural differences shouldn’t be neglected. In this point managers should consider in which degree natural culture contrast or is integrated in organisational culture and its impact on the previously mentioned challenges.