ORGB 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Television South West, Intercultural Communication

• School: McGill University
• Department: Organizational Behaviour
• Course: ORGB 380
• Professor: Nathalie Sylvain

Document Summary

Iep - someone who is able to live contentedly and work successfully in another culture. Mix of skills, knowledge, attitudes, and characteristics required for living and working in another culture. Ability to establish trust with people from other cultures. Capacity to adapt to professional skills to local constraints. Major competencies - essential qualities held by ieps (general and abstract) Core competencies - non-essential qualities that are more focused and outline the major competencies. Behavioral competencies - observable, concrete actions displayed by the. Major = understanding of the concept of culture and the pervasive influence it will have on their life and work abroad. Conceptual understanding of how culture affects all people. Understand how own cultural conditioning affects how behavior and values of own cultures may cause problems in the host culture. Know that values and behaviors vary between cultures. Articulate the influence of culture, describe what and who it involves, how it evolves, through outlining visible and invisible examples.