After reading the article "Managing Multi-Cultural Teams" I found myself thinking about the part the author wrote about communication and how that could apply to me. All of us in this class are in the college of business so one day it is very possible that we will be working with people from other cultures and we might run into a conflict similar to the one in the reading.
The line "communication in western cultures is typically direct and explicit" keeps reciting itself in my head. My uncle works for a company that does a lot of work overseas and after talking to him just a little I can see that even he has this problem. He says that he gets emails from overseas that are pages and pages long when they only needed to be a paragraph or two.
I just find it surprising to think that western cultures "communicate" completely different than other cultures. It's just the way we do things and its "weird" to think that a difference in communications styles can disrupt an entire project.
Anybody agree with me?
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