High context culture

consequences that may interrupt a group’s climate, this week the group discovered how the variables of culture may influences group climates. Alana, Latasha, and Deborah agreed that culture diversity within a group environment may limit the communication between group participants. In the event of Alana participating in virtual group environments she discovered how individuals of different cultures presented different forms of communication. Although, physical contact was not presented, Alana,…

How management can take advantage of the knowledge they have on different cultures when communicating with employees and stakeholders in being aware of the nature of collectivist countries for instance. Managers being aware of the nature of collectivist countries and their connections to their clan, and family loyalties can assist them in helping them to communicate due to their clan and family connections. For instance, while trying to establish funding to start up another firm division in…

services to people with developmental disabilities. One specific aspect that should be deemed highly important is diversity. More specifically, culture differences including family styles, religion, race, socioeconomic status, and the greater community the person with a disability belongs to. The diagnosis of Autism is global; therefore within the context of the family dynamic, differences can be vast. Currently, diversity research in the realm of autism is limited however, as professionals are…

will inherently shape their cultural understandings. Indigenous students have the right to a high quality education and equal participation and equitability in the classroom. It is my wish that each of my future Indigenous students will be successful and for their learning to be relevant to the Indigenous context. I also wish for my future non-Indigenous students to appreciate and respect Indigenous culture, both locally and nationally. Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural theory best aligns with my…

maintaining cultural competence. The third factor requires the student to develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order. The cultural competence of teachers comes into play by the following: having high expectations for all students, valuing diversity, having cultural self-awareness, flexibility with responding and communicating with cultural differences,…

effective communication (noise) such as absence of feedback, cultural differences (languages etc.) and others. Criterion was quite effective in their communication methods by making ‘repeated trips to US subsidiaries’ (Campbell-Hunt, 2000). In this context, Brian Smaill was the sender who made direct contact (face-face) with the key movers of the product within the US industry, who are the receivers/customers of their product. Face-face communication is the most effective communication method as…

Culture is a crucial part of the conflict and struggling resolve. Cultures are the root of individuals that defines their lives, relationships and different perspectives, decisions and philosophies of self and other. Cultures are powerful and defined, but often they can be insensible and lead to influencing conflicts in indiscernible ways. Polish-American author Eva Hoffman's autobiography, "Lost in Translation" reflects the differing cultural and emotional changes an individual goes through…

common to communicate with people from various countries. Gradually, intercultural marriage is familiar with the public. There are many benefits to intercultural marriage, one of them being experiencing a variety of cultures. However, getting married to a person from a different culture is questioned by many people, because the conflicts caused by cultural diversity are inevitable even in the daily life. Thus, cross cultural marriages cannot be successful, since communication barriers,…

values, attitudes and tastes among cultures (Usunier, 1993). Cultural values have long been recognized in the marketing literature as a strong influence on consumer motivation, lifestyle and product choices. Indeed, cultural values are often expressed through consumption behavior (Tse and Wong, 1988). Cultural influences what is purchased as well as why, how, when, where and by whom a product is purchased (Ricks, 1983). Therefore, it can be assumed that “culture impacts every aspects of…

Australian indigenous knowledge and cultures In the last 60,000 years Australian indigenous knowledge has advanced through generations.Unlike western culture where knowledge becomes grown and known through written text's,Indigenous knowledge is developed by images, words, patterns, sounds, smells ,tastes on different canvases such as sand, soil, the body and rocks.Furthermore, Since British colonisation in 1788 threats to traditional indigenous knowledge existed then and even more now in modern…