In low-context societies, relationships are separated from messages, and people focus on details, logic, and the message itself. In high-context societies, much more emphasis is placed on the total environment or context in which the message or interaction takes place; the actual words are less important than the rest of the context, particularly the relationships between the participants.
What will be an ideal response?
Individualist cultures tend to emphasize the value of the individual person and his
or her goals, accomplishments, achievements, dreams, and right to make personal
choices. Collectivist cultures tend to emphasize the value of group benefits and
achievement and the place of the person within the system.
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A) replace the proactive phase. B) build favorable management attitudes. C) become a strategy all its own. D) work as its own two-way communication channel. E) prevent a conflict from arising.
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