Describe a process through which an organization can conduct successful cross-cultural communication
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: There is a nine-step process practitioners can follow to become effective cross-cultural communicators. The steps are showing sensitivity, demonstrating commitment, conducting cultural research, seeking local assistance within the culture, having diversity in your own team, testing relationship-building tactics on trusted members of the culture you plan to address, evaluating the success of cross-cultural communication efforts, advocating cross cultural communication within organizations, and developing an ongoing program of cross-cultural training.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Social role theory provides a way to understand how social expectations for behavior result in stereotypes. 2. Role congruity theory helps explain the prejudice men experience in leadership positions. 3. The Rhetorical MDL is considered the most sophisticated. 4. The notion of punctuation suggests that interaction is understood by the people involved in it as a series of beginnings and endings, of causes and effects. 5. Analogic communication refers to linguistic symbols that are arbitrarily linked to meaning--usually words.
Which of the following functions does research for informational interviews serve?
A. It reveals what information is available in other sources such as Web sites and archives. B. It leads interviewers to make false assumptions and including inaccuracies in questions. C. It prevents interviewers from asking thought-provoking questions. D. It reveals that much of what one reads in books and articles is accurate and true.
Kalvin told his son not to play with matches, and in response his son intentionally lit one. This is an example of ___________ power
a. negative b. legitimate c. reward d. information