Mar 24, 2010 | American culture, Asian culture, Business, cross cultural negotiation
Understanding the importance and source of status is a vital part of working cross culturally. People can attain status in two ways: Achieved status – what you do In the US and other English-speaking countries, status is achieved and based on your own hard work and...
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Mar 16, 2010 | American culture, cross cultural conflict, Hispanic culture
Clearly, not all members of any group will behave in the same way. But managers who can recognize cultural patterns and communication styles of their diverse employees will be better able to avoid cross cultural conflict in the workplace. Here are 3 sources of cross...
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Mar 10, 2010 | Business, Expats, Language
Many foreign-born professionals in R&D or IT fields say they feel limited by their English at work. Although they may have the precise and technical vocabulary for their field, they often lack the fluency and interactional skills to participate fully at work. What...
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Mar 9, 2010 | cross cultural communication
Google’s claims it’s new translation tool can “make the language barrier go away.” Language barriers are more than vocabulary and grammar. I expect that translation software will continue to have problems as long as it focuses on the language...
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